A program for animating CCS specifications

摘要

The paper describes the operation of a program which enables the behaviours admitted by a specification in the Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS) to be investigated. Two specifications in the calculus are presented to illustrate the issues under discussion, and program output from the animation of these specifications is shown, both to elucidate the program's value and limitations and to highlight distinctive features of specifications in CCS.