Abstract.Communicating processes, which may exhibit nondeterministic behaviour, are specified as state-transition systems. Equivalence and refinement relations are defined in terms of the failures model of processes. D o w n w a r d and upward simulation are considered as proof methods for refinement. Various operators on processes are defined and their refinement rules established.
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