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Process calculus

In computer science, the process calculi (or process algebras) are a diverse family of related approaches for formally modelling concurrent systems. Process calculi provide tools for high-level descriptions of interactions, communications, and synchronizations between a collection of independent processes. They provide algebraic laws that allow process…

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Mathematics of processes

Discrete and continuous process algebra

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Process calculus → Behavioural, Beta Binders, BioAmbients, BioPEPA, Bisimulations, Brane, Can, Church, Constraining, Currently, Developing, Expressivity, Finding, For, Generally, Hoare, How, It, Logics, One
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Process calculus → ACP, Algebra, Another, Calculus, CCS, Church-Turing, Communicating Processes, Communicating Systems, CSP, Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes, In, Jan Bergstra, Jan Willem Klop, Models, Petri, Research, Robin Milner's, The, There, Turing
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Process calculus → Actor, Kleene, One, Petri, That, The, Thus
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