Advanced Topics in Bisimulation and Coinduction [Elektronisk resurs]

• Cover; Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science 52; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Origins of bisimulation and coinduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Bisimulation in modal logic; 1.2.1 Modal logics; 1.2.2 From homomorphism to p-morphism; 1.2.3 Johan van Benthem; 1.2.4 Discussion; 1.3 Bisimulation in computer science; 1.3.1 Algebraic theory of automata; 1.3.2 Robin Milner; 1.3.3 David Park; 1.3.4 Discussion; 1.4 Set theory; 1.4.1 Non-well-founded sets; 1.4.2 The stratified approach to set theory; 1.4.3 Non-well-founded sets and extensionality. 
• 1.4.4 Marco Forti and Furio Honsell1.4.5 Peter Aczel; 1.4.6 Jon Barwise; 1.4.7 Extensionality quotients: Roland Hinnion and others; 1.4.8 Discussion; 1.5 The introduction of fixed points in computer science; 1.6 Fixed-point theorems; Bibliography; 2 An introduction to (co)algebra and (co)induction; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Algebraic and coalgebraic phenomena; 2.3 Inductive and coinductive definitions; 2.4 Functoriality of products, coproducts and powersets; 2.5 Algebras and induction; 2.6 Coalgebras and coinduction; 2.7 Proofs by coinduction and bisimulation; 2.8 Processes coalgebraically. 
• 2.9 Trace semantics, coalgebraically2.10 Exercises; Bibliography; 3 The algorithmics of bisimilarity; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Classical algorithms for bisimilarity; 3.2.1 Preliminaries; 3.2.2 The algorithm of Kanellakis and Smolka; 3.2.3 The algorithm of Paige and Tarjan; 3.2.4 Computing bisimilarity, symbolically; 3.2.5 Checking weak equivalences; 3.3 The complexity of checking bisimilarityover finite processes; 3.3.1 Game characterisation of bisimulation-like relations; 3.3.2 Deciding bisimilarity over finite labelledtransition systems is P-complete. 
• 3.3.3 EXPTIME-completeness of equivalence checking on networks of finite processes3.4 Decidability results for bisimilarity overinfinite-state systems; 3.4.1 Process rewrite systems; 3.4.2 Deciding bisimilarity on BPP using a tableau technique; 3.4.3 Undecidability of bisimilarity on Petri nets; 3.4.4 Overview of results; 3.5 The use of bisimilarity checking in verification and tools; 3.5.1 Some uses of bisimilarity checking; 3.5.2 Concluding remarks; Bibliography; 4 Bisimulation and logic; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Modal logic and bisimilarity; 4.3 Bisimulation invariance; 4.4 Modal mu-calculus. 
• 4.5 Monadic second-order logic and bisimulation invarianceBibliography; 5 Howe's method for higher-order languages; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Call-by-value ?-calculus; 5.3 Applicative (bi)similarity for call-by-value ?-calculus; 5.4 Congruence; 5.5 Howe's construction; 5.6 Contextual equivalence; 5.7 The transitive closure trick; 5.8 CIU-equivalence; 5.9 Call-by-name equivalences; 5.10 Summary; 5.11 Assessment; Bibliography; 6 Enhancements of the bisimulation proof method; 6.1 The need for enhancements; 6.1.1 The bisimulation game; 6.1.2 Tracking redundancies; 6.2 Examples of enhancements. 
• 6.2.1 Diagram-based enhancements. 

• Seven articles survey the state of the art. Discusses various aspects of the subject, with an emphasis on process theory. 

Ämnesord

Bisimulation. 

Coinduction (Mathematics). 

Computer science. 

Induction (Mathematics). 

Modality (Logic). 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

QA76.9 .A96 S365 2011 (LCC)

004.01/5113 (DDC)

Pu (kssb/8 (machine generated))