Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10331858 Information Processing Letters 2014 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
To represent concurrent behaviours one can use concepts originating from language theory, including traces and comtraces. Traces can express notions such as concurrency and causality, whereas comtraces can also capture weak causality and simultaneity. This paper is concerned with the development of efficient data structures and algorithms for manipulating comtraces. We introduce and investigate folded Hasse diagrams of comtraces which generalise Hasse diagrams defined for partial orders and traces. We also develop an efficient on-line algorithm for deriving Hasse diagrams from language theoretic representations of comtraces. Finally, we briefly discuss how folded Hasse diagrams could be used to implement efficiently some basic operations on comtraces.
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