Talk "Distributive laws and decidable properties of SOS"

by Bartek Klin

Wed, 03 September 2014 at 03:00 pm in Sinaia, Romania

Joint work with: Beata Nachyła

Abstract: Some formats of well-behaved operational specifications correspond to natural transformations of certain types (for example, GSOS and coGSOS laws). These transformations have a common generalization: distributive laws of monads over comonads. We prove that this elegant theoretical generalization has limited practical benefits: it does not translate to any concrete rule format that would be complete for specifications that contain both GSOS and coGSOS rules. This is shown for the case of labeled transition systems and deterministic stream systems.