Denotational semantics of communicating processes based on a language for applicative multiprogramming

The denotational semantics of a simple language for describing tightly coupled ‘synchronous’ systems is defined by translating it into a language for applicative multiprogramming. The applicative language has originally been developed for describing nondeterministic stream-processing functions and loosely-coupled systems of communicating processes. Nevertheless, it can be used after very slight generalizations as a semantic target language for defining the meaning of programs representing tightly-coupled, synchronous systems.