CONCUR '98 Concurrency Theory

Sometimes and not never re-revisited: on branching versus linear time.- Controllers for discrete event systems via morphisms.- Synthesis from knowledge-based specifications.- The regular viewpoint on PA-processes.- Herbrand automata for hardware verification.- Control flow analysis for the ?-calculus.- The tau-laws of fusion.- From higher-order ?-calculus to ?-calculus in the presence of static operators.- Minimality and separation results on asynchronous mobile processes.- Abstract games for infinite state processes.- Alternating refinement relations.- Possible worlds process algebras.- Automata and coinduction (an exercise in coalgebra).- Axioms for real-time logics.- Priority and maximal progress are completely axiomatisable (extended abstract).- Simulation is decidable for one-counter nets.- From rewrite to bisimulation congruences.- Reasoning about asynchronous communication in dynamically evolving object structures.- Modelling IP mobility.- Reduction in TLA.- Detecting deadlocks in concurrent systems.- Unfold/fold transformations of CCP programs.- Type systems for concurrent calculi.- Stochastic process algebras benefits for performance evaluation and challenges.- Algebraic techniques for timed systems.- Probabilistic resource failure in real-time process algebra.- Towards performance evaluation with general distributions in process algebras.- Stochastic transition systems.- It's about time: Real-time logics reviewed.- Controlled timed automata.- On discretization of delays in timed automata and digital circuits.- Partial order reductions for timed systems.- Unfolding and finite prefix for nets with read arcs.- Asynchronous cellular automata and asynchronous automata for pomsets.- Deriving unbounded Petri nets from formal languages.- Decompositions of asynchronous systems.- Synthesis of ENI-systems using minimal regions.- A categorical axiomatics for bisimulation.- Fibrational semantics of dataflow networks.- A relational model of non-deterministic dataflow.-

Davide Sangiorgi is Full Professor in Computer Science at the University of Bologna, Italy.