We introduce mCRL2, a specification language that can be used to specify and analyse the behaviour of distributed systems. This language is the successor of the mCRL specification language. The mCRL2 language extends a timed basic process algebra with the possibility to define and use abstract data types. The mCRL2 data language features predefined and higher-order data types. The process algebraic part of mCRL2 allows a faithful translation of coloured Petri nets and component based systems: we have introduced multiactions and we have separated communication and parallelism.
Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
E. Brinksma , D. Harel , A. H. Mader (Angelika) , P. Stevens , R.M.A. Wieringa
Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings
Methods for Modelling Software Systems
Computer Security

Groote, J. F., Mathijssen, A., Usenko, Y., Reniers, M., & van Weerdenburg, M. (2007). The Formal Specification Language mCRL2. In E. Brinksma, D. Harel, A. Mader, P. Stevens, & R. M. A. Wieringa (Eds.), Proc. Methods for Modelling Software Systems (MMOSS) (pp. 1–15). Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum fuer Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.