Treffer: Geometric analysis of nondeterminacy in dynamical systems : Towards a geometric analysis of concurrent systems

Title:
Geometric analysis of nondeterminacy in dynamical systems : Towards a geometric analysis of concurrent systems
Source:
Hybrid systemsActa informatica. 43(7):501-519
Publisher Information:
Berlin: Springer, 2007.
Publication Year:
2007
Physical Description:
print, 25 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
ISSN:
0001-5903
Rights:
Copyright 2007 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems

Mathematics
Accession Number:
edscal.18548293
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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This article intends to provide some new insights into concurrency using ideas from the theory of dynamical systems. Inherently discrete concurrency corresponds to a parallel continuous concept: a discrete state space corresponds to a differential manifold, an execution path corresponds to a flow line of a dynamical system. To model non-determinacy within dynamical systems, we introduce a new geometrical object, a section cone. A section cone is a convex set in the space of vector fields, all elements having the same singular points. We show that it is enough to consider flow lines of a single vector field in order to capture the behavior of all flow lines in the section cone up to homotopy (corresponding to equivalence of executions).