A Theory of Encodings and Expressiveness
arXiv:1805.10415
Abstract
This paper proposes a definition of what it means for one system description language to encode another one, thereby enabling an ordering of system description languages with respect to expressive power. I compare the proposed definition with other definitions of encoding and expressiveness found in the literature, and illustrate it on a well-known case study: the encoding of the synchronous in the asynchronous -calculus.
An extended abstract of this paper appeared in the proceedings of FoSSaCS 2018