Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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426575 | Information and Computation | 2012 | 20 Pages |
We combine two of the existing approaches to the study of concurrency by means of multiset rewriting: multiset rewriting with existential quantification (MSR) and constrained multiset rewriting. We obtain ν-MSR, where we rewrite multisets of atomic formulae, in which terms can only be pure names, where some names can be restricted. We consider the subclass of depth-bounded ν-MSR, for which the interdependence of names is bounded. We prove that they are strictly Well Structured Transition Systems, so that coverability, termination and boundedness are all decidable for depth-bounded ν-MSR. This allows us to obtain new verification results for several formalisms with name binding that can be encoded within ν-MSR, namely polyadic ν-PN (Petri nets with tuples of names as tokens), the π-calculus, MSR or Mobile Ambients.