Essential Features
While the variety of existing process calculi is very large (including variants that incorporate stochastic behaviour, timing information, and specializations for studying molecular interactions), there are several features that all process calculi have in common:
- Representing interactions between independent processes as communication (message-passing), rather than as the modification of shared variables
- Describing processes and systems using a small collection of primitives, and operators for combining those primitives
- Defining algebraic laws for the process operators, which allow process expressions to be manipulated using equational reasoning
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