Interaction and observation, categorically

Vincenzo Ciancia

This paper proposes to use dialgebras to specify the semantics of interactive systems in a natural way. Dialgebras are a conservative extension of coalgebras. In this categorical model, from the point of view that we provide, the notions of observation and interaction are separate features. This is useful, for example, in the specification of process equivalences, which are obtained as kernels of the homomorphisms of dialgebras. As an example we present the asynchronous semantics of the CCS.

In Alexandra Silva, Simon Bliudze, Roberto Bruni and Marco Carbone: Proceedings Fourth Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2011), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9th June 2011, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 59, pp. 25–36.
Published: 31st July 2011.

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