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96 lines
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The equivalence studied up to now is quite discriminating, in the sense that it distinguishes, for example, τ.P and τ.τ.P.
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- If an external observer can count the number of non-observable actions (i.e., the τ’s), this distinction makes sense.
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- If we assume that an observer cannot access any internal information of the system, then this distinction is not acceptable.
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The idea of the new equivalence is to ignore (some) τ’s:
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- a visible action must be replied to with the same action, possibly together with some internal actions
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- an internal action must be replied to by a (possibly empty) sequence of internal actions.
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We define the relation $\implies$ as:
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$P \implies P'$ if and only if there exist $P_{0}, P_{1},\dots,P_{k}$ (for $k \geq 0$) such that $P=P_{0} \xrightarrow{\tau} P_{1} \xrightarrow{\tau}\dots\xrightarrow{\tau}Pk=P'$
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relation $\xRightarrow{\hat{\alpha}}$:
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- if $\alpha=\tau$ then $\xRightarrow{\hat{\alpha}}\triangleq\implies$
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- otherwise $\xRightarrow{\hat{\alpha}}\triangleq\implies\xrightarrow{\alpha}\implies$
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S is a weak simulation if and only if $$\forall(p, q) \in S \space \forall p \xrightarrow{\alpha} p' \exists q' \space s.t. \space q\xRightarrow{\hat{\alpha}}q' \space and \space (p', q') \in S$$
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A relation S is called weak bisimulation if both $S$ and $S^{-1}$ are weak simulations.
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We say that p and q are weakly bisimilar, written $p \approx q$, if there exists a weak bisimulation $S$ such that $(p, q) \in S$.
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**Prop:**
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$\approx$ is a
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1. equivalence
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2. congruence
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3. weak bisimulation
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4. $\sim \subset \approx$
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#### Examples of weakly bisimilar processes
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**Theorem:** given any process P and any sum M, N, then:
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1. $P \approx \tau.{P}$
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2. $M+N+\tau.N \approx M + \tau.N$
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3. $M+\alpha.P+\alpha.(N+\tau.P) \approx M + \alpha.(N + \tau.P)$
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*Proof:*
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take the symmetric closure of the following relations, that can be easily shown to be weak simulations:
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1. $S = \{ (P,\tau.P )\}\cup Id$
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2. $S=\{ (M+N+\tau.N,M+\tau.N )\}\cup Id$
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3. $S=\{ ((M+\alpha.P+\alpha.(N+\tau.P), M+\alpha.(N+\tau.P)) \} \cup Id$
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#### Weak bisimilarity abstracts from any $\tau$
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**There exists no weak bisimulation S that contains (P, Q).**
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*Proof:*
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By contr. suppose that a bisimulation exists
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Since Q −τ→ b.0, there must exist a P’ such that P ⇒ P and (P,b.0) ∈ S The only P that satisfies P ⇒ P’ is P itself
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hence it should be (P,b.0) ∈ S
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Contradiction: P can perform a whereas b.0 cannot !!
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Similarly, P/R and Q/R are NOT weakly bisimilar
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### EXAMPLE: Factory
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A factory can handle three kinds of works: easy (E), medium (M), difficult (D).
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An activity of the factory consists in receiving in input a work (of any kind) and in producing in output a manufactured work.
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The given specification of an activity is the following:
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$$A\triangleq i_{E}.A'+i_{M}. A'+i_{D}.A'$$
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$$A' \triangleq \bar{o}.A$$
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where actions $i_{E}, i_{M}, i_{D}$ represents they input, and $\bar{o}$ represents the production of an output.
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The factory is given by the parallel composition of two activities:
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$$Factory \triangleq A|A$$
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A possible implementation of this specification is obtained by having two workers that perform in parallel different kinds of work.
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- For easy works, they don’t use any machinery
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- For medium works, they can use either a special or a general machine
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- For difficult works, they have to use the special machine.
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There is only one special and only one general machine that the workers have to share.
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where rg and rs are used to require the general/special machine, lg and ls are used to leave the general/special machine, and S and G implement a semaphore on the two different machines.
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The resulting system is given by:
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$$Workers \triangleq (W|W|G|S) \setminus_{\{rg,rs,lg,ls \}}$$
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We now want to show that:
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$$Factory \approx Workers$$
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i.e., that the specification and the implementation of the factory behave the same (apart from internal actions).
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Let N denote {rg,rs,lg,ls} and x,y ∊ {E,M,D}
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We can prove that the following relation is a weak bisimulation:
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This is a family of relations:
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- 3 pairs of the second form (one for every x)
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- 9 pairs of the fifth form (one for every x and y)
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- 3 pairs of the sixth form
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- 3 pairs of the seventh form
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Furthermore, we should also consider commutativity of parallel in pairs of the second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth form.
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Thus, R is actually made up of 1+6+2+2+9+6+6+2=34 pairs.
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