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Message-Passing Automata Are Expressively Equivalent to EMSO Logic

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Message-Passing Automata Are Expressively Equivalent to EMSO Logic
Abstract. We study the expressiveness of finite message-passing automata with a priori unbounded FIFO channels and show them to capture exactly the class of MSC languages that are definable in existential monadic second-order logic interpreted over MSCs. Moreover, we prove the monadic quantifier-alternation hierarchy over MSCs to be infinite and conclude that the class of MSC languages accepted by message-passing automata is not closed under complement. Furthermore, we show that satisfiability for (existential) monadic seconder-order logic over MSCs is undecidable.
Benedikt Bollig, Martin Leucker
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where CONCUR
Authors Benedikt Bollig, Martin Leucker
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