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Implementation $I$ has only behaviours permitted by specification $S$ in CSP semantic model $M$. In particular, CSP traces model refinement means $\mathrm{traces}(I)\subseteq \mathrm{traces}(S)$; the other models additionally constrain CSP stable failures or CSP divergences.

A representation of a CSP process by specified kinds of observable behaviour. The CSP traces model, CSP stable-failures model and CSP failures-divergences model record progressively more information about refusals and internal activity.

Solutions to all three questions of the examination dated 1 June 2015. The cover permits answers to two questions.^[ref]

Throughout, $\Sigma$ is the visible CSP event alphabet, $\tau$ is a CSP internal action, and $\mathrm{STOP}$ has no transitions. There is no successful termination event. Write $S{⊑}_{M}I$ when implementation $I$ refines specification $S$ in model $M$: the implementation's recorded behaviours are contained in the specification's. We use $T$, $F$ and $FD$ for the CSP traces model, CSP stable-failures model and CSP failures-divergences model.

If $f$ is injective, the equation is true:For a CSP event $a\in A$, the original CSP parallel composition permits $a$ exactly when both operands can perform $a$. After CSP event renaming, the corresponding rule requires the same image $f(a)$ in both operands. Injectivity ensures that matching images came from the same event, and that an event outside $A$ cannot acquire the image of one inside $A$. Independent transitions remain independent, and CSP internal actions are unchanged. Matching these transition rules gives a strong bisimulation, hence equality in all three standard CSP semantic models.

For a non-injective $f$, the equation need not hold. LetOn the left, both events require synchronization but the other operand offers the wrong event, so $P\underset{A}{\Vert }Q=\mathrm{STOP}$. On the right, both renamed operands offer $c$, which can synchronize:The failure is already visible in the CSP traces model. A particular non-injective CSP event renaming may still preserve a particular composition; it is the unrestricted equivalence that fails.

This is a safety property: a bad shutdown or a later reactivation has a finite bad CSP trace. Use the CSP traces model. Let $V=\{0,\dots ,N-1\}$, let $A\subseteq V$ track active nodes, and let $D\subseteq V$ track nodes that have announced shutdown. Let $\mathrm{Ring}$ contain every message CSP event. Define the following specification over the status-signal alphabet:Use the CSP refinement checkThe specification offers a shutdown only if the active set is empty, and offers no activation once $D$ is nonempty. A trace violating either requirement is therefore absent from the specification. Recording $D$ also prevents duplicate shutdowns and any status change by an already shut-down node. CSP hiding removes message details irrelevant to this finite bad-prefix check; a CSP traces model check alone does not assert eventual progress.

The system satisfies the check. After the first message has passed nodes $1,\dots ,i$, its bit is the Boolean conjunction of their being idle when sampled. Every sampled node is then frozen until it forwards the second-round decision. A true bit returning to node $0$ therefore means that every non-coordinator is idle and still frozen; the coordinator has itself remained idle. A true decision consequently reaches only idle nodes, each of which proceeds to shutdown rather than returning to $\mathrm{Free}$. No node can subsequently become active. A false decision permits no shutdown at all.