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1997
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Causal Ambiguity and Partial Orders in Event Structures

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Causal Ambiguity and Partial Orders in Event Structures
Eventstructuremodelsoftenhavesomeconstraintwhichensuresthatforeachsystemrunitisclearwhatarethecausalpredecessorsofanevent(i.e. there is no causal ambiguity). In this contribution we study whathappens if we remove such constraints. We de ne ve di erent partialordersemanticsthatareintentionalinthesensethattheyrefertosyn-tacticaspectsofthemodel. Wealsode neanobservationalpartialordersemantics,thatderivesapartialorderfromjusttheeventtraces.Itappearsthatthiscorrespondstotheso-calledearlyintentionalse-mantics;theotherintentionalsemanticscannotbeobservationallycharac-terized. Westudytheequivalencesinducedbythedi erentpartialorderde nitions,andtheirinterrelations.
Rom Langerak, Ed Brinksma, Joost-Pieter Katoen
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Type Conference
Year 1997
Where CONCUR
Authors Rom Langerak, Ed Brinksma, Joost-Pieter Katoen
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