Chu Spaces and Their Interpretation as Concurrent Objects
Chu Spaces and Their Interpretation as Concurrent Objects
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DOI:
10.1007/bfb0015256
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发表时间:
1995
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通讯作者:
V. Pratt
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V. Pratt
A Chu space is a binary relation from a setAto an antisetXdefined as a set which transforms via converse functions. Chu spaces admit a great many interpretations by virtue of realizing all small concrete categories and most large ones arising in mathematical and computational practice. Of particular interest for computer science is their interpretation as computational processes, which takesAto be a schedule of events distributed in time,Xto be an automaton of states forming an information system in the sense of Scott, and the pairs (a, x) in the relation to be the individual transcriptions of the making of history. The traditional homogeneous binary relations of transition onXand precedence onAare recovered as respectively the right and left residuals of the heterogeneous binary relation with itself. The natural algebra of Chu spaces is that of linear logic, made a process algebra by the process interpretation.