Event structures are fundamental models in concurrency theory, providing a representation of events in computation and of their relations, notably concurrency, conflict and causality. In this paper we present a theory of minimisation for event structures. Working in a class of event structures that generalises many stable event structure models in the literature, (e.g., prime, asymmetric, flow and bundle event structures) we study a notion of behaviour-preserving quotient, taking hereditary history preserving bisimilarity as a reference behavioural equivalence. We show that for any event structure a uniquely determined minimal quotient always exists. We observe that each event structure can be seen as the quotient of a prime event structure, and that quotients of general event structures arise from quotients of (suitably defined) corresponding prime event structures. This gives a special relevance to quotients in the class of prime event structures, which are then studied in detail, providing a characterisation and showing that also prime event structures always admit a unique minimal quotient.

Minimisation of event structures

Baldan P.;Raffaetà A.
2019-01-01

Abstract

Event structures are fundamental models in concurrency theory, providing a representation of events in computation and of their relations, notably concurrency, conflict and causality. In this paper we present a theory of minimisation for event structures. Working in a class of event structures that generalises many stable event structure models in the literature, (e.g., prime, asymmetric, flow and bundle event structures) we study a notion of behaviour-preserving quotient, taking hereditary history preserving bisimilarity as a reference behavioural equivalence. We show that for any event structure a uniquely determined minimal quotient always exists. We observe that each event structure can be seen as the quotient of a prime event structure, and that quotients of general event structures arise from quotients of (suitably defined) corresponding prime event structures. This gives a special relevance to quotients in the class of prime event structures, which are then studied in detail, providing a characterisation and showing that also prime event structures always admit a unique minimal quotient.
2019
39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, (FSTTCS)
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