Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Formal techniques for parallel object-oriented languages.- Causal models for rational algebraic processes.- Action and state-based logics for process algebras.- A tool set for deciding behavioral equivalences.- Causality based models for the design of concurrent systems.- Modal logics for mobile processes.- Towards a design calculus for communicating programs.- A theory of testing for ACP.- Real space process algebra.- The failure of failures in a paradigm for asynchronous communication.- Embedding as a tool for language comparison: On the CSP hierarchy.- A conditional operator for CCS.- Algebraic formulations of trace theory.- Compositional synthesis of live and bounded free choice Petri nets.- The observation algebra of spatial pomsets.- Synchrony loosening transformations for interacting processes.- A compositional model for layered distributed systems.- Process algebra with guards.- Model checking and modular verification.- Geometric logic, causality and event structures.- Extended Horn clauses: the framework and some semantics.- Action systems and action refinement in the development of parallel systems.- Invariant semantics of nets with inhibitor arcs.- Abstract timed observation and process algebra.- Simulations between specifications of distributed systems.- Using truth-preserving reductions to improve the clarity of kripke-models.- Completeness in real time process algebra.- Distributed CCS.- Time-constrained automata.- Relating processes with respect to speed.- Testing, betting and timed true concurrency.- Fairness in models with true concurrency.- Efficient verification of determinate processes.- Experiments on processes with backtracking.- Some finite-graph models for process algebra.- A method for the development of totally correct shared-state parallel programs.- Reduced labelled transition systems save verification effort.