Automata for Branching and Layered Temporal Structures: An Investigation into Regularities of Infinite Transition Systems

Since 2002, FoLLI has awarded an annual prize for outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, language and Information. This book is based on the Ph.D. thesis of Gabriele Puppis, who was the winner of the E.W. Beth Dissertation Award for 2007.

Puppis's thesis focuses on logic and computation and, more specifically, on automata-based decidability techniques for time granularity and on a new method for determining monadic second order theories of trees. The results presented represent a ...