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 | | A concurrent program with a coarser granularity, on the other hand, would be a program which has two or more processes running in parallel, each executing several distinct operations and each of which has its own life thread throughout the execution time of the program. |
 | | Among the many formal methods available, three are highly distinguishable: Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS), Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), and Language of Temporal Orderings (LOTOS), all of which are formal specification methods that are concerned with modeling process communication and ordering of events. |
 | | LOTOS, however, which is based on the roots of CCS and CSP, provides an extended mechanism that allows for abstract data types. |
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