TY - GEN
T1 - Full abstraction for set-based models of the symmetric interaction combinators
AU - Mazza, Damiano
AU - Ross, Neil J.
PY - 2012/4/3
Y1 - 2012/4/3
N2 - The symmetric interaction combinators are a model of distributed and deterministic computation based on Lafont's interaction nets, a special form of graph rewriting. The interest of the symmetric interaction combinators lies in their universality, that is, the fact that they may encode all other interaction net systems; for instance, several implementations of the lambda-calculus in the symmetric interaction combinators exist, related to Lamping's sharing graphs for optimal reduction. A certain number of observational equivalences were introduced for this system, by Lafont, Fernandez and Mackie, and the first author. In this paper, we study the problem of full abstraction with respect to one of these equivalences, using a class of very simple denotational models based on pointed sets.
AB - The symmetric interaction combinators are a model of distributed and deterministic computation based on Lafont's interaction nets, a special form of graph rewriting. The interest of the symmetric interaction combinators lies in their universality, that is, the fact that they may encode all other interaction net systems; for instance, several implementations of the lambda-calculus in the symmetric interaction combinators exist, related to Lamping's sharing graphs for optimal reduction. A certain number of observational equivalences were introduced for this system, by Lafont, Fernandez and Mackie, and the first author. In this paper, we study the problem of full abstraction with respect to one of these equivalences, using a class of very simple denotational models based on pointed sets.
KW - Denotational semantics
KW - Interaction nets
KW - Observational equivalence
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-28729-9_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-28729-9_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84859153508
SN - 9783642287282
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 316
EP - 330
BT - Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures - 15th Int. Conf., FOSSACS 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 15th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012
Y2 - 24 March 2012 through 1 April 2012
ER -