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About fair asynchrony. (English) Zbl 0607.68016
This paper examines the joint influence of fairness and asynchrony on the semantic modelling of a CCS-like language. Fairness is the guarantee for every agent engaged in a computation to communicate with the other asynchronous agents if such communications are infinitely often possible. Programs are compared according to an implementation preorder which reflects the inclusion of observable properties: whenever, for every context $${\mathcal C}$$ and for every program r, no computation of r experimenting upon $${\mathcal C}(p)$$ allows to recognize p versus q, p is considered less than q. A fully abstract model of the preorder is constructed in a domain of infinitary languages, preferred here to classical algebraic domains. The restriction to bounded parallelism is analysed. In that simplified framework, the model turns effective and, moreover, decidable.

##### MSC:
 68N25 Theory of operating systems 68Q65 Abstract data types; algebraic specification
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