MohammadReza Mousavi and Michel Reniers,
To appear in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference
on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS'05)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, volume 3441 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 47--62, Springer-Verlag, April 2005.
Structural congruences have been used to define the semantics and to capture inherent properties of language constructs. They have been used as an addendum to transition system specifications in Plotkin's style of Structural Operational Semantics (SOS). However, there has been little theoretical work on establishing a formal link between these two semantic specification frameworks. In this paper, we give an interpretation of structural congruences inside the transition system specification framework. This way, we extend a number of well-behavedness meta-theorems for SOS (such as well-definedness of the semantics and congruence of bisimilarity) to the extended setting with structural congruences.
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A detailed version of this paper appeared as:
MohammadReza Mousavi and Michel Reniers, Structural Congruences and Structural Operational Semantics, Technical Report CSR-04-28,
Department of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, October 2004.
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author = "Mousavi, MohammadReza and Reniers, Michel",
title = "Congruence for Structural Congruences",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference
on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS'05)",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
pages = "47--62",
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