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Sensoria Bibliography Site Symbolic Semantics Revisited
Filippo Bonchi, Ugo Montanari
abstract:
Symbolic bisimulations were introduced as a mean to define
value-passing process calculi using smaller, possibly finite labelled
transition systems, equipped with symbolic actions. Similar ideas have
been used for modeling with fewer transitions the input behavior of open
and asynchronous π-calculus. In this paper we generalize the symbolic
technique and apply the resulting theory to these two cases, re-deriving
existing results. We also apply our approach to a new setting, i.e. open
Petri nets, with the usual result of reducing input transitions. Our theory generalizes Leifer and Milner reactive systems by adding observations.
