Event Structures for Interrupt Process Algebras

Abstract

Interruption is a useful feature in programming and specification languages. Therefore, process algebras has been extended with an additional interrupt operator. We invent a class of event structures, called interrupt event structures, to give a true concurrent semantic to process algebras containing interruption. Interrupt event structures are more expressive than other event structures with respect to event trace execution. Furthermore, interrupt event structures can also distinguish simultaneous event executions from event interleaving. We show consistency, based on bisimulation, between the operational and the denotational semantics of a process algebra that contains an interrupt operator.