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Fixing the Semantics of Some Concurrent Object-Oriented Concepts Extended Abstract
AbstractConcurrent object-oriented languages provide a suitable target for a compositional design process that copes with the interference inherent with concurrency. Fixing the semantics of an object-based design language has been undertaken using structured operational semantics and by a mapping to the pi-calculus. These two approaches are outlined and contrasted. In particular, the difficulties in the two approaches of justifying the proof rules of the proposed design method are explained