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Reward Testing Equivalences for Processes

Logic in Computer Science 2019-08-01 v1

Abstract

May and must testing were introduced by De Nicola and Hennessy to define semantic equivalences on processes. May-testing equivalence exactly captures safety properties, and must-testing equivalence liveness properties. This paper proposes reward testing and shows that the resulting semantic equivalence also captures conditional liveness properties. It is strictly finer than both the may- and must-testing equivalence.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.13348,
  title  = {Reward Testing Equivalences for Processes},
  author = {Rob van Glabbeek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.13348},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This paper is dedicated to Rocco De Nicola, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Rocco's work has been a source of inspiration to my own

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