Introduction to Process Algebra / Edition 1

by Wan Fokkink

Overview

Automated and semi-automated manipulation of so-called labelled transition systems has become an important means in discovering flaws in software and hardware systems. Process algebra has been developed to express such labelled transition systems algebraically, which enhances the ways of manipulation by means of equational logic and term rewriting.

The theory of process algebra has developed rapidly over the last twenty years, and verification tools have been developed on the basis of process algebra, often in cooperation with techniques related to model checking. This textbook gives a thorough introduction into the basics of process algebra and its applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642085840
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Series:	Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Basic Process Algebra.- 3. Algebra of Communicating Processes.- 4. Recursion.- 5. Abstraction.- 6. Prool Verifications.- 7. Extensions.- A. Equational Logic.- B. Structural Operational Semantics.- Solutions to Selected Exercises.- References.