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 NF1 (Rationale 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.