Abstract

Modern environments for modeling and designing concurrent computational systems increasingly support heterogeneous system models, which are characterized by different coordination mechanisms governing the interaction between concurrent components in different parts or at different levels of the model. These interaction semantics, also called models of computation, pose a major challenge to the definition of the meaning of heterogeneous models, especially if such a definition is to be independent of any specific set of models of computation, ways of describing actors, or notations for describing models.

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