Realisability of Pomsets via Communicating Automata
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Pomsets are a model of concurrent computations introduced by Pratt. They can provide a syntax-oblivious description of semantics of coordination models based on asynchronous message-passing, such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs). In this paper, we study conditions that ensure a specification expressed as a set of pomsets can be faithfully realised via communicating automata. Our main contributions are (i) the definition of a realisability condition accounting for termination soundness, (ii) conditions for global specifications with "multi-threaded" participants, and (iii) the definition of realisability conditions that can be decided directly over pomsets. A positive by-product of our approach is the efficiency gain in the verification of the realisability conditions obtained when restricting to specific classes of choreographies characterisable in term of behavioural types.
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