What are the fundamental structures of concurrency? We still don't know!

Samson Abramsky

What are the fundamental structures of concurrency? We still don't know!

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arxiv 1401.4973 v1 pith:L5EXFJHG submitted 2014-01-20 cs.LO

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Process algebra has been successful in many ways; but we don't yet see the lineaments of a fundamental theory. Some fleeting glimpses are sought from Petri Nets, physics and geometry.

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