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Controlling reversibility in higher-order Pi

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Ivan Lanese,

Claudio Antares Mezzina,

Alan Schmitt,

Jean-Bernard StefaniAuthors Info & Claims

CONCUR'11: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Concurrency theory

Pages 297 - 311

Published: 06 September 2011 Publication History

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We present in this paper a fine-grained rollback primitive for the higher-order π-calculus (HOπ), that builds on the reversibility apparatus of reversible HOπ [9]. The definition of a proper semantics for such a primitive is a surprisingly delicate matter because of the potential interferences between concurrent rollbacks. We define in this paper a high-level operational semantics which we prove sound and complete with respect to reversible HOπ backward reduction. We also define a lowerlevel distributed semantics, which is closer to an actual implementation of the rollback primitive, and we prove it to be fully abstract with respect to the high-level semantics.

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