We prove an existential version of Gaifman’s locality theorem and show how it can be applied algorithmically to evaluate existential first-order sentences in finite structures....
Authentication and secrecy properties are proved by very different methods: the former by local reasoning, leading to matching knowledge of all principals about the order of their...
Stream circuits are a convenient graphical way to represent streams (or stream functions) computed by finite dimensional linear systems. We present a sound and complete expression...
This paper explores the concept of locality in proofs of global safety properties of asynchronously composed, multi-process programs. Model checking on the full state space is ofte...