Process Spaces
Radu Negulescu · International Conference on Concurrency Theory · 2000
This paper presents process spaces, a general theory for systems that are made of several interacting components and layers of abstraction. Process spaces capture in a homogeneous manner diverse correctness concerns for concurrent systems and other types of systems. The main innovation of process spaces is the idea of abstract execution, which permits to set the precision and complexity of a system model by the amount of detail included in the execution model. Notwithstanding this generality, we show that process spaces admit several algebraic properties of practical significance.