Designing and modeling cyberworlds using the incrementally modular abstraction hierarchy based on homotopy theory
Kenji Ohmori, Tosiyasu L. Kunii
In The Visual Computer, 26(5), May 2010.
Abstract: For designing and modeling complicated and sophisticated systems such as cyberworlds, their mathematical foundation is critical. To realize it, two important properties called the homotopy lifting property (HLP) and homotopy extension property (HEP) are applied for designing and modeling a system in a bottom-up way and a top-down way, respectively. In this paper, an enterprise system and a real-time embedded system are considered as important socially emerging cases of cyberworlds, where the pi -calculus processes for describing these behaviors formally, a Petri net for explaining process interactions, and XMOS XC programs are modeled and designed by our approach. The spaces in both properties are specified by the incrementally modular abstraction hierarchy by climbing down the abstraction hierarchy from the most abstract homotopy level to the most specific view level, while keeping invariants such as homotopy equivalence and topological equivalence.
Keyword(s): Homotopy theory, Software engineering, Cyberworlds, Top-down and bottom-up design, Homotopy lifting/extension properties, Pi-calculus, Event driven, Infinite state machine
BibTeX format:
@article{Ohmori:2010:DAM,
  author = {Kenji Ohmori and Tosiyasu L. Kunii},
  title = {Designing and modeling cyberworlds using the incrementally modular abstraction hierarchy based on homotopy theory},
  journal = {The Visual Computer},
  volume = {26},
  number = {5},
  pages = {297--309},
  month = may,
  year = {2010},
}
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