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In this paper, we investigate the notion of observation in a partially ordered time domain. We present an algebraic structure to represent such an observation, and use it to define a process algebra. It is then given an operational and denotational semantics, and we see that denotational equivalence is the same as may testing.
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Jeffrey, A. (1991). Abstract timed observation and process algebra. In: Baeten, J.C.M., Groote, J.F. (eds) CONCUR '91. CONCUR 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54430-5_98
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