Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I. The p-Calculus: 1. Processes; 2. Behavioural equivalence; Part II. Variations of the p-Calculus: 3. Polyadicity and recursion; 4. Behavioural equivalence, continued; 5. Subcalculi; Part III. Typed p-Calculi: 6. Foundations; 7. Subtyping; 8. Advanced type systems; Part IV. Reasoning about Processes Using Types: 9. Groundwork; 10. Behavioural effects of i/o types; 11. Techniques for advanced type systems; Part V. The Higher-Order Paradigm: 12. Higher-order p-calculus; 13. Comparing first-order and higher-order calculi; Part VI. Functions as Processes: 14. The l-calculus; 15. Interpreting l-calculi; 16. Interpreting typed l-calculi; 17. Full abstraction; 18. The local structure of the interpretations; Part VII. Objects and p-Calculus: 19. Semantic definition; 20. Applications; List of notations; Bibliography; Index.

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"Sangiorgi and Walker have written an extremely valuable account of the pi-calculus which should be appreciated by researchers in theoretical computer science and related areas of symbolic logic, as it covers the basic theory rigorously and in great depth. It is a valuable reference for those of us who are active researchers in this area." Symoblic Logic