nLab Glynn Winskel

Glynn Winskel is a professor in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Selected writings

On syntax and semantics of programming languages:

On transition systems and other models for concurrency:

On transition systems, bisimulations and open morphisms:

On category theoretic generalizations of domain theory:

Event structures were introduced in:

  • G. Winskel?, Event Structures, in Advances in Petri Nets 1986. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 255, 1987, (pdf).

Other papers on event structures:

  • M. Nielsen, G. D. Plotkin, and G. Winskel?, Petri nets, event structures and domains, part I, Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 13, pp. 85–108, 1981. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(81)90112-2

  • G. Winskel? and M. Nielsen, Models for concurrency. vol. 3, Handbook of Logic in Computer Science, pages 100 - 200, Oxford Univ. Press, 1994. (see also online technical report).

  • G. Winskel?, Event Structures as Presheaves – Two Representation Theorems BRICS report

  • G. Winskel?, Events, causality, and symmetry, (an earlier version appeared in the BCS conference ‘Visions in Computer Science.’ September 2008. The final version appears in a special issue of The Computer Journal 2009; doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxp052; see also an online version).

  • Sam Staton and G. Winskel?, On the expressivity of symmetry in event structures, LICS 2010

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