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Quantales, observational logic and process semantics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2009

Samson Abramsky  and
Steven Vickers
Samson Abramsky
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 2BZ
Steven Vickers
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 2BZ
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Abstract

Various notions of observing and testing processes are placed in a uniform algebraic framework in which observations are taken as constituting a quantale. General completeness criteria are stated, and proved in our applications.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 161 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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