Elements of Finite Model Theory (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

Libkin, Leonid

ISBN 10: 3642059481 / ISBN 13: 9783642059483

Verlag: Springer, 2010

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ERICA77336420594816

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Elements of Finite Model Theory (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)
• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3642059481
• ISBN-13: 9783642059483
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Like New
• Buchtyp: book

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Inhaltsangabe

This book is an introduction to finite model theory which stresses the computer science origins of the area. In addition to presenting the main techniques for analyzing logics over finite models, the book deals extensively with applications in databases, complexity theory, and formal languages, as well as other branches of computer science. It covers Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé games, locality-based techniques, complexity analysis of logics, including the basics of descriptive complexity, second-order logic and its fragments, connections with finite automata, fixed point logics, finite variable logics, zero-one laws, and embedded finite models, and gives a brief tour of recently discovered applications of finite model theory.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The author has been with the department of computer science at the University of Toronto since 2000. Prior to that, he was a researcher at Bell Laboratories, and he spent two years visiting INRIA in France. His research interests are in the areas of database theory and applications of logic in computer science. He is coauthor/editor of: Constraint Databases Kuper, G., Libkin, L., Paredaens, J. (Eds.), 12.04.2000, ISBN 3-540-66151-4 Finite-Model Theory and Its Applications Gradel, E., Kolaitis, P.G. (et al.), 07.2004, ISBN 3-540-00428-9 Semantics in Databases Thalheim, B., Libkin, L. (Eds.), Vol. 1358, 25.02.1998, ISBN 3-540-64199-8