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Bigraphical Refinement

Software Engineering 2011-06-22 v1

Abstract

We propose a mechanism for the vertical refinement of bigraphical reactive systems, based upon a mechanism for limiting observations and utilising the underlying categorical structure of bigraphs. We present a motivating example to demonstrate that the proposed notion of refinement is sensible with respect to the theory of bigraphical reactive systems; and we propose a sufficient condition for guaranteeing the existence of a safety-preserving vertical refinement. We postulate the existence of a complimentary notion of horizontal refinement for bigraphical agents, and finally we discuss the connection of this work to the general refinement of Reeves and Streader.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1106.4091,
  title  = {Bigraphical Refinement},
  author = {Gian Perrone and Søren Debois and Thomas Hildebrandt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4091},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

In Proceedings Refine 2011, arXiv:1106.3488

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