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Formal Models of Communicating Systems

Languages, Automata, and Monadic Second-Order Logic
By:Benedikt Bollig
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9783540329220
eText ISBN:9783540329237
Edition:0
Copyright:2006
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.