Mathematical Models for the Semantics of Parallelism

The papers collected in this volume are most of the material presented at the Advanced School on Mathematical Models for the Semantics of Parallelism, held in Rome, September 24- October 1, 1986. The need for a comprehensive and clear presentation of the several semantical approaches to parallelism motivated the stress on mathematical models, by means of which comparisons among different approaches can also be performed in a perspicuous way.

Inhalt
Testing equivalences for event structures.- Designing equivalent semantic models for process creation.- An outline of the SMoLCS approach.- Views of distributed systems.- CCS is an (augmented) contact free C/E system.- Linear logic and parallelism.- Universal models in categories for process synchronization.- On axiomatic defintion of max-model of concurrency.