Bisimilarity for the region calculus

Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 347-394

  Helsen, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bisimulation; Contextual equivalence; Equational theory; Region calculus

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); THEOREM PROVING;

BISIMULATION; CONTEXTUAL EQUIVALENCE; EQUATIONAL THEORY; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; REGION CALCULUS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 4344581378     PISSN: 13883690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10990-004-4868-x     Document Type: Article

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