Abstract
The bisimulation proof method can be enhanced by employing ‘bisimulations up-to’ techniques. A comprehensive theory of such enhancements has been developed for first-order (i.e., CCS-like) labelled transition systems (LTSs) and bisimilarity, based on the notion of compatible function for fixed-point theory.
We transport this theory onto languages whose bisimilarity and LTS go beyond those of first-order models. The approach consists in exhibiting fully abstract translations of the more sophisticated LTSs and bisimilarities onto the first-order ones. This allows us to reuse directly the large corpus of up-to techniques that are available on first-order LTSs. The only ingredient that has to be manually supplied is the compatibility of basic up-to techniques that are specific to the new languages. We investigate the method on the π-calculus, the λ-calculus, and a (call-by-value) λ-calculus with references.
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Madiot, JM., Pous, D., Sangiorgi, D. (2014). Bisimulations Up-to: Beyond First-Order Transition Systems. In: Baldan, P., Gorla, D. (eds) CONCUR 2014 – Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8704. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44584-6_8
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