Finite Model Theory and Its Applications

This book gives a broad overview of core topics of finite model theory: expressive power, descriptive complexity, and zero-one laws, together with selected applications to database theory and artificial intelligence, especially, constraint databases and constraint satisfaction problems. The final ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Grädel, Erich (Author), Kolaitis, Phokion G. (Author), Libkin, Leonid (Author), Marx, Maarten (Author), Spencer, Joel (Author), Vardi, Moshe Y. (Author), Venema, Yde (Author), Weinstein, Scott (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series,
Subjects:
Computer science.
Machine theory.
Software engineering.
Database management.
Theory of Computation.
Formal Languages and Automata Theory.
Software Engineering.
Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming.
Database Management.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Unifying Themes in Finite Model Theory
  • On the Expressive Power of Logics on Finite Models
  • Finite Model Theory and Descriptive Complexity
  • Logic and Random Structures
  • Embedded Finite Models and Constraint Databases
  • A Logical Approach to Constraint Satisfaction
  • Local Variations on a Loose Theme: Modal Logic and Decidability.

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