Semantics of Name and Value Passing

Marcelo Fiore and Daniele Turi

In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2001, pages 93--104. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001.

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Abstract

We provide a semantic framework for (first order) message-passing process calculi by combining categorical theories of abstract syntax with binding and operational semantics. In particular, we obtain abstract rule formats for name and value passing with both late and early interpretations. These formats induce an initial-algebra/final-coalgebra semantics that is compositional, respects substitution, and is fully abstract for late and early congruence. We exemplify the theory with the pi-calculus and value-passing CCS.

@InProceedings{FioreTuri01,
	author = {Marcelo Fiore and Daniele Turi},
	title = {Semantics of Name and Value Passing},
        Organization={IEEE},
        Publisher={Computer Society Press},
        Booktitle={Proc.\ 16$^{\rm th}$ LICS Conf.},
        pages = {93-104},
	year = {2001}
}