The REX School/Symposium *A Decade of Concurrency - Reflections and
Perspectives' was the final event of a ten year period of cooperation between three
Dutch research groups working on the foundations of concurrency. Ever since its
inception in 1983. the goal of the project has been'to contribute to the
crossfertilization between formal methods from the fields of syntax, semantics and
proof theory, aimed at an improved understanding of the nature of parallel computing.
The project was initially known as LPC - for Landelijk Project Concurrency - and
funded by the Netherlands Research Foundation for Computer Science SION. From
1988 onwards, the project was baptized REX - Research and Education in Concurrent
Systems - and supported by the Dutch NFI (Nationale Faciliteit Informatica)
programme.
LPC and REX have from the beginning spent a major effort on the dissemination of
methods and results from the forefront of concurrency research in Europe and, to a
somewhat lesser extent, the USA.
