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In this paper we present a calculus for re nement of business process models based on a precisede nition of business processes and process nets Business process models are a vital concept for communicating with experts of the application…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Bernhard Rumpe , V. Thurner

We consider matrix-valued processes described as solutions to stochastic differential equations of very general form. We study the family of the empirical measure-valued processes constructed from the corresponding eigenvalues. We show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Jacek Małecki , José Luis Pérez

In the author's PhD thesis (2019) universal envelopes were introduced as a tool for studying the continuously obtainable information on discontinuous functions. To any function $f \colon X \to Y$ between $\operatorname{qcb}_0$-spaces one…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eike Neumann

Parameterization extends higher-order processes with the capability of abstraction (akin to that in lambda-calculus), and is known to be able to enhance the expressiveness. This paper focuses on the parameterization of names, i.e. a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Xian Xu , Qiang Yin , Huan Long

Reservoir computing is a versatile paradigm in computational neuroscience and machine learning, that exploits the non-linear dynamics of a dynamical system - the reservoir - to efficiently process time-dependent information. Since its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Francesco Monzani , Enrico Prati

Message passing is a key ingredient of concurrent programming. The purpose of this paper is to describe the equivalence between the proof theory, the categorical semantics, and term calculus of message passing. In order to achieve this we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-03 J. R. B. Cockett , Craig Pastro

Causal reasoning is essential for business process interventions and improvement, requiring a clear understanding of causal relationships among activity execution times in an event log. Recent work introduced a method for discovering causal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuval David , Fabiana Fournier , Lior Limonad , Inna Skarbovsky

We investigate how set-theoretic forcing can be seen as a computational process on the models of set theory. Given an oracle for information about a model of set theory $\langle M,\in^M\rangle$, we explain senses in which one may compute…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Joel David Hamkins , Russell Miller , Kameryn J. Williams

Models of computation operating over the real numbers and computing a larger class of functions compared to the class of general recursive functions invariably introduce a non-finite element of infinite information encoded in an arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Hector Zenil

The act of describing how a physical process changes a system is the basis for understanding observed phenomena. For quantum-mechanical processes in particular, the affect of processes on quantum states profoundly advances our knowledge of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Jen-Hsiang Hsieh , Shih-Hsuan Chen , Che-Ming Li

A universal quantum processor is a device that takes as input a (quantum) program, containing an encoding of an arbitrary unitary gate, and a (quantum) data register, on which the encoded gate is applied. While no perfect universal quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yuxiang Yang , Renato Renner , Giulio Chiribella

Full formal descriptions of algorithms making use of quantum principles must take into account both quantum and classical computing components, as well as communications between these components. Moreover, to model concurrent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marie Lalire

We introduce the notion of universal memcomputing machines (UMMs): a class of brain-inspired general-purpose computing machines based on systems with memory, whereby processing and storing of information occur on the same physical location.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Fabio L. Traversa , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Quantum processes describe concurrent communicating systems that may involve quantum information. We propose a notion of open bisimulation for quantum processes and show that it provides both a sound and complete proof methodology for a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Yuxin Deng , Yuan Feng

We study which standard operators of probabilistic process calculi allow for compositional reasoning with respect to bisimulation metric semantics. We argue that uniform continuity (generalizing the earlier proposed property of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Daniel Gebler , Kim G. Larsen , Simone Tini

A quantum process encodes the causal structure that relates quantum operations performed in local laboratories. The process matrix formalism includes as special cases quantum mechanics on a fixed background space-time, but also allows for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Philippe Allard Guérin , Marius Krumm , Costantino Budroni , Časlav Brukner

We show that in quantum computation almost every gate that operates on two or more bits is a universal gate. We discuss various physical considerations bearing on the proper definition of universality for computational components such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. Deutsch , A. Barenco , A. Ekert

This tutorial provides a comprehensive and in-depth view of the research on procedures, primarily in Natural Language Processing. A procedure is a sequence of steps intended to achieve some goal. Understanding procedures in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Li Zhang

Modeling and reasoning about concurrent quantum systems is very important both for distributed quantum computing and for quantum protocol verification. As a consequence, a general framework describing formally the communication and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Yuan Feng , Runyao Duan , Zhengfeng Ji , Mingsheng Ying

We explain the use of quantum process calculus to describe and analyse linear optical quantum computing (LOQC). The main idea is to define two processes, one modelling a linear optical system and the other expressing a specification, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Sonja Franke-Arnold , Simon J. Gay , Ittoop Vergheese Puthoor