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Communicating Finite-State Machines and Two-Variable Logic

Authors Benedikt Bollig, Marie Fortin, Paul Gastin

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Benedikt Bollig
Marie Fortin
Paul Gastin

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Benedikt Bollig, Marie Fortin, and Paul Gastin. Communicating Finite-State Machines and Two-Variable Logic. In 35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 96, pp. 17:1-17:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.17

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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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  • communicating finite-state machines
  • MSO logic
  • message sequence charts

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