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Axioms for bigraphical structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2005

ROBIN MILNER
ROBIN MILNER
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, The Computer Laboratory, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK
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Abstract

This paper axiomatises the structure of bigraphs, and proves that the resulting theory is complete. Bigraphs are graphs with double structure, representing locality and connectivity. They have been shown to represent dynamic theories for the $\pi$-calculus, mobile ambients and Petri nets in a way that is faithful to each of those models of discrete behaviour. While the main purpose of bigraphs is to understand mobile systems, a prerequisite for this understanding is a well-behaved theory of the structure of states in such systems. The algebra of bigraph structure is surprisingly simple, as this paper demonstrates; this is because bigraphs treat locality and connectivity orthogonally.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 1005 - 1032
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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