19th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'04)
Beyond Image-Finiteness: Labelled Transition Systems as a Stone Space
Turku, Finland
July 13-July 17
ISBN: 0-7695-2192-4
The bisimulation quotient of labelled transition systems over a finite set of events is a Stone space whose compact, zero-dimensional, and ultra-metrizable Hausdorff topology measures the degree of bisimilarity such that image-finite labelled transition systems are dense. A fully abstract domain for modal transition systems, modulo refinement, realizes this Stone space as a 'maximal-points space.' Therefore, we extend our results to those systems; unify existing denotational, operational, and metric semantics; and obtain consistency measures for modal transition systems.