PI's key ECSYM-precursor publications and notes

    ECSYM application material: Extended Synopsis; Scientific Proposal.

    ERC Evaluation Report.

    Event structures with symmetry and their expressivity:

    • Event structures with symmetry.
      For Gordon Plotkin Festschrift, ENTCS 172, February 2007. pdf.
      (Errors especially in the 'Applications' section 'Event types' of ENTCS 172 are corrected.)

    • Symmetry and concurrency.
      Invited talk for CALCO'07, May 2007. pdf.
      Summarises 'Event structures with symmetry' above.

    • On the expressivity of symmetry in event structures. With Sam Staton.
      To appear in LICS 2010. pdf.

    The above three papers demonstrate the increased expressivity symmetry brings to event structures; the last paper enables the transfer of equivalences/techniques on presheaves to event structures with symmetry.

    Stable spans:

    • Event structure spans for non-deterministic dataflow. With Lucy Saunders-Evans.
      EXPRESS'06, 2006. pdf.

    Game semantics:

    • Introduction to sequentiality.
      Handwritten slides explaining sequential algorithms for a course at Aarhus, 1994. In particular, they explain composition of sequential algorithms as a form of relational composition. A historical precursor to the presentation via spans. This early work was inspired by Francois Lamarche's work as was a similar result by P-L Curien.
      pdf.

    • .Affine sequential algorithms as spans, rough notes from July 2009. They were type-set to send to Martin Hyland and Pierre-Louis Curien. The 'beliefs' there are now mostly established (jointly with intern Silvain Rideau from ENS-Paris); in particular sequential spans can be obtained from general spans. Affine sequential algorithms can be viewed as the basic games underlying game semantics. Silvain's current working notes---these are being extended with a new treatment of concurrent games.

    Name generation:

    • Nominal Domain Theory for Concurrency. With David Turner.
      CSL 2009. pdf.

    • new-HOPLA: a higher-order process language with name generation. With Francesco Zappa Nardelli.
      Accepted for TCS@2004, Third IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, 2004. pdf.

    Petri nets:

    • The unfolding of general Petri nets. With Jonathan Hayman. pdf.
      Short FCTTCS 2008 version. pdf.

    • Symmetry in Petri nets. With Jonathan Hayman.
      Perspectives in Concurrency Theory, K. Lodaya, M. Mukund and R. Ramanujam (eds) Universities Press, 2008. pdf.

    Equivalences:

    • Bisimulation from Open Maps. With Andre Joyal and Mogens Nielsen.
      In LICS '93 special issue of Information and Computation, 127(2):164-185, June 1996. In BRICS reports series RS-94-7

    • Weak Bisimulation and Open Maps. With Marcelo P. Fiore and Gian Luca Cattani.
      LICS '99. In BRICS reports series RS-99-14

    The articles provide general methods for equivalences and equational reasoning, as does 'Profunctors, Open Maps and Bisimulation' below. The above LICS 2010 paper ''On the expressivity of event structures with symmetry'' provides methods to transfer the techniques to event structures with symmetry.

    Concurrent separation logic:

    • Independence and concurrent separation logic. With Jonathan Hayman.
      LICS'06, 2006. pdf.

    Probability

    • Distributing probability over nondeterminism. With Daniele Varacca.
      MSCS, 2006. pdf.

    Presheaves and profunctors:

    • Profunctors, Open Maps and Bisimulation. With Gian Luca Cattani.
      MSCS, 2005. ps.

    • The cartesian closed bicategory of generalised species of structures.With M. Fiore, N. Gambino and M. Hyland.
      Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 77 2, 203-220. pdf.

    • Limit preservation from naturality. With Mario Caccamo.
      CTCS'04, 2004. pdf.

    • A Higher-Order Calculus for Categories. With Mario Caccamo.
      In Boulton and Jackson, editors, Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics: 14th International Conference, TPHOLs 2001 Proceedings, LNCS 2152, 2001, pages 136-153. Extended version in BRICS reports series RS-01-27

    Security protocols:

    • Composing Strand Spaces. With Federico Crazzolara.
      FSTTCS'02.
      pdf, ps.

    • Events in Security Protocols. With Federico Crazzolara.
      In proc. the 8th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Philadelphia, November, 2001.
      pdf. In BRICS reports series RS-01-13 . Awarded the British Computer Society Brendan Murphy Memorial Prize 2002.

    Strong correspondence

    Proofs of strong correspondence for affine HOPLA and HOPLA can be found in
    • Linearity in Process Languages. With Mikkel Nygaard.
      LICS'02. ps.

    and at my former PhD student's web page, see Mikkel Nygaard's publications.

    Systems biology

    • Handwritten notes on compression for biochemical pathways.
      Dec. 2009. pdf.

    The last page on strong compression has been revised - see pdf. A ''Prelude to notes on compression'', exploring and arguing for a broader graphical representation of biochemical systems - inspired by the kappa workshop in Barbados, March 2010 - is found in pdf.

    Relevant survey or general articles

    • Relations in concurrency.
      Invited talk, LICS'05, 2005 (Revised). pdf.

    • Domain Theory for Concurrency. With Mikkel Nygaard.
      Based on a talk given at the Copenhagen Workshop in Honour of Dana S. Scott's 70th birthday. TCS special issue, May 2004. pdf, ps.

    • Event Structures.
      Advances in Petri Nets 1986. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 255, 1987.
      pdf.

    • Models for Concurrency. With Mogens Nielsen.
      Pre-published version of a chapter in the Handbook of Logic and the Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 4, pages 1-148, Oxford University Press, 1995. In DAIMI and BRICS reports series RS-94-12

    • Events, Causality and Symmetry.
      An earlier version appeared in the BCS conference `Visions in Computer Science.' September 2008. The final version appears in a special issue of The Computer Journal 2009; doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxp052 . pdf.

    • Martin Hyland. Some Reasons for Generalising Domain Theory.
      Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 20, 2010, 239-265. Available from Martin Hyland's home page .