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Relating Reasoning Methodologies in Linear Logic and Process Algebra (CMU-CS-11-145, CMU-CS-QTR-111)
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posted on 1978-01-01, 00:00 authored by Yuxin Deng, Robert J. Simmons, Iliano CervesatoIliano CervesatoWe show that the proof-theoretic notion of logical preorder coincides with the process-theoretic notion of contextual preorder for a CCS-like process calculus obtained from the formula-as-process interpretation of a fragment of linear logic. The argument makes use of other standard notions in process algebra, namely simulation and labeled transition systems. This result establishes a connection between an approach to reason about process specifications, the contextual preorder, and a method to reason about logic specifications, the logical preorder.