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Formal Models of Communicating Systems

Languages, Automata, and Monadic Second-Order Logic

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  • Precise characterizations of automata models in terms of descriptive logic formalisms
  • Software engineers can use fragments of monadic second-order logic to specify desired system behaviors
  • First monograph dealing with the relationship between automata and monadic second-order logic
  • Focuses on classes of automata that describe the concurrent behavior of distributed systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-9
  3. Preliminaries

    Pages 11-15
  4. Beyond Implementability

    Pages 151-164
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 165-181

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"The book deals with one essential problem of communication systems, namely formal description of protocols and systems and verification of correctness of their operation. … The book, due to clear definitions, well proved theorems and a number of illustrative examples, can be advised as a valuable source of knowledge for graduate mathematics and computer science students." (Jozef Wozniak, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1107 (9), 2007)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification, CNRS UMR 8643 & ENS de Cachan, Cachan Cedex, France

    Benedikt Bollig

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