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Graph rewriting for the π-calculus†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2007

FABIO GADDUCCI
FABIO GADDUCCI*
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Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitá di Pisa, largo Pontecorvo 3c, I-56127 Pisa, Italy Email: gadducci@di.unipi.it.
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Abstract

We propose a graphical implementation for (possibly recursive) processes of the π-calculus, encoding each process into a graph. Our implementation is sound and complete with respect to the structural congruence for the calculus: two processes are equivalent if and only if they are mapped into graphs with the same normal form. Most importantly, the encoding allows the use of standard graph rewriting mechanisms for modelling the reduction semantics of the calculus.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 407 - 437
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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