Formal Models of Communicating Systems: Languages, Automata, and Monadic Second-Order Logic (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. an Eatcs Series)
β Scribed by Benedikt Bollig
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 183
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book studies the relationship between automata and monadic second-order logic, focusing on classes of automata that describe the concurrent behavior of distributed systems. It provides a unifying theory of communicating automata and their logical properties. Based on Hanf's Theorem and Thomas's graph acceptors, it develops a result that allows characterization of many popular models of distributed computation in terms of the existential fragment of monadic second-order logic.
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