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Event Identifier Logic†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

IAIN PHILLIPS  and
IREK ULIDOWSKI
IAIN PHILLIPS
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom Email: iccp@doc.ic.ac.uk
IREK ULIDOWSKI
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom Email: iu3@mcs.le.ac.uk
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Abstract

In this paper we introduce Event Identifier Logic (EIL), which extends Hennessy–Milner logic by the addition of:

  1. (1) reverse as well as forward modalities; and

  2. (2) identifiers to keep track of events.

We show that this logic corresponds to hereditary history-preserving (HH) bisimulation equivalence within a particular true-concurrency model, namely, stable configuration structures. We also show how natural sublogics of EIL correspond to coarser equivalences. In particular, we provide logical characterisations of weak-history- preserving (WH) and history-preserving (H) bisimulation. Logics corresponding to HH and H bisimulation have been given previously, but none, as far as we are aware, corresponding to WH bisimulation (when autoconcurrency is allowed). We also present characteristic formulas that characterise individual structures with respect to history-preserving equivalences.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , e240204
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Footnotes

†

This paper was originally submitted for inclusion in the forthcoming EXPRESS 2011 Special Issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science. It was accepted, and the revised (final) version was sent in November 2012. Subsequently, in April 2013, in view of the extra time required to handle other articles in the Special Issue, the Guest Editors very kindly agreed to the article being published separately in the Journal to avoid further delay in publication.

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