We introduce the resource calculus, a string diagrammatic language for concurrent systems. Significantly, it uses the same syntax and operational semantics as the signal flow calculus — an algebraic formalism for signal flow graphs, which is a combinatorial model of computation of interest in control theory. Indeed, our approach stems from the simple but fruitful realisation that, by replacing real numbers (modelling signals) with natural numbers (modelling resources) in the operational semantics, concurrent behaviour patterns emerge.
The resource calculus is canonical: we equip it and its stateful extension with equational theories that characterise the underlying space of definable behaviours—a convex algebraic universe of additive relations— via isomorphisms of categories. Finally, we demonstrate that our calculus is sufficiently expressive to capture behaviour definable by classical Petri nets.
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13:45 22mTalk | Better Late Than Never: A Fully Abstract Semantics for Classical Processes Research Papers Wen KokkeUniversity of Edinburgh, Fabrizio MontesiUniversity of Southern Denmark, Marco PeressottiUniversity of Southern Denmark Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
14:07 22mTalk | Diagrammatic Algebra: From Linear to Concurrent Systems Research Papers Filippo BonchiUniversity of Pisa, Joshua HollandUniversity of Southampton, Robin PiedeleuUniversity of Oxford, Pawel SobocinskiUniversity of Southampton, Fabio ZanasiUniversity College London Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
14:29 22mTalk | Fixpoint Games on Continuous Lattices Research Papers Paolo BaldanUniversity of Padova, Barbara KönigUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Christina Mika-MichalskiUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Tommaso PadoanUniversity of Padova Link to publication DOI Media Attached File Attached |