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Mobile Processes: a Commented Bibliography Silvano Dal Zilio Microsoft Research Abstract. We propose a short bibliographic survey of calculi for mobile processes. Contrasting with other similar exercises, we consider two re- lated, but distinct, notions of mobile processes, namely labile processes, which can exhibit dynamic changes in their interaction structure, as mod- elled in the π-calculus of Milner, Parrow and Walker for example, and motile processes, which can exhibit motion, as modelled in the ambient calculus of Cardelli and Gordon. A common characteristic of the alge- braic frameworks presented in this paper is the use of names as first class values and the support for the dynamic generation of new, fresh names. 1 Introduction Process algebras have proved to be valuable mathematical tools to reason about the behaviour of concurrent and communicating systems. For more than ten years now, research has been conducted on semantics of higher-order processes that allow communication channels or even processes to be carried across by communications. Process calculi featuring the ability to dynamically create and exchange channel names are often referred to as mobile, a term popularised by the seminal introduction to the π-calculus [1], a prominent example of calculus with mobile processes. 1. Robin Milner, Joachim Parrow, David Walker: A Calculus of Mobile Pro- cesses, (parts I and II). Information and Computation 100(1) (1992) 1–77 2. Robin Milner: Communicating and Mobile Systems: the Pi-Calculus. Cam- bridge University Press (2000) Unfortunately, the term mobility is overloaded with meaning and the notion of mobility supported by the π-calcul