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The study of information-based actions and processes has been a vibrant interface between logic and computer science for decades now. The individual chapters of this book show the state of the art in current investigations of process calculi with mainly two major paradigms at work: linear logic and modal logic. Viewed together, the chapters also offer exciting glimpses of future integration with obvious links including modal logics for proof graphs, labelled deduction merging modal and linear logic, Chu spaces linking proof theory and model theory and bisimulation-style equivalences for analysing proof processes. The combination of approaches and pointers for further integration also suggests a grander vision for the field. In classical computation theory, Church's Thesis provided a unifying and driving force. Likewise, modern process theory would benefit immensely from a synthesis bringing together paradigms like modal logic, process algebra, and linear logic. If this Grand Synthesis is ever going to happen, books like this are needed!
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TRENDS IN LOGIC
Studia Logica Library VOLUME 18 Managing Editor Ryszard Wójcicki, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Editors Daniele Mundici, Department of Mathematics “Ulisse Dini”, University of Florence, Italy Ewa Orlowska, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland Graham Priest, Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Krister Segerberg, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden Alasdair Urquhart, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada Heinrich Wansing, Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Trends in Logic is a bookseries covering essentially the same area as the journal Studia Logica – that is, contemporary formal logic and its applicati