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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.17
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85298
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2018/8529/
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Bollig, Benedikt ; Fortin, Marie ; Gastin, Paul

Communicating Finite-State Machines and Two-Variable Logic

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Abstract

Communicating finite-state machines are a fundamental, well-studied model of finite-state processes that communicate via unbounded first-in first-out channels. We show that they are expressively equivalent to existential MSO logic with two first-order variables and the order relation.

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@InProceedings{bollig_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:8529,
  author =	{Benedikt Bollig and Marie Fortin and Paul Gastin},
  title =	{{Communicating Finite-State Machines and Two-Variable Logic}},
  booktitle =	{35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-062-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{96},
  editor =	{Rolf Niedermeier and Brigitte Vall{\'e}e},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8529},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85298},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: communicating finite-state machines, MSO logic, message sequence charts}
}

Keywords: communicating finite-state machines, MSO logic, message sequence charts
Collection: 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)
Issue Date: 2018
Date of publication: 27.02.2018

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