Download or read book Elements of Finite Model Theory written by Leonid Libkin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizes the computer science aspects of the subject. Details applications in databases, complexity theory, and formal languages, as well as other branches of computer science.
Download or read book Finite and Algorithmic Model Theory written by Javier Esparza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys of current research in logical aspects of computer science that apply finite and infinite model-theoretic methods.
Download or read book Finite Model Theory written by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thoroughly revised and enlarged second edition that presents the main results of descriptive complexity theory, that is, the connections between axiomatizability of classes of finite structures and their complexity with respect to time and space bounds. The logics that are important in this context include fixed-point logics, transitive closure logics, and also certain infinitary languages; their model theory is studied in full detail. The book is written in such a way that the respective parts on model theory and descriptive complexity theory may be read independently.
Download or read book Finite Model Theory and Its Applications written by Erich Grädel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finite model theory,as understoodhere, is an areaof mathematicallogic that has developed in close connection with applications to computer science, in particular the theory of computational complexity and database theory. One of the fundamental insights of mathematical logic is that our understanding of mathematical phenomena is enriched by elevating the languages we use to describe mathematical structures to objects of explicit study. If mathematics is the science of patterns, then the media through which we discern patterns, as well as the structures in which we discern them, command our attention. It isthis aspect oflogicwhichis mostprominentin model theory,“thebranchof mathematical logic which deals with the relation between a formal language and its interpretations”. No wonder, then, that mathematical logic, and ?nite model theory in particular, should ?nd manifold applications in computer science: from specifying programs to querying databases, computer science is rife with phenomena whose understanding requires close attention to the interaction between language and structure. This volume gives a broadoverviewof some central themes of ?nite model theory: expressive power, descriptive complexity, and zero–one laws, together with selected applications to database theory and arti?cial intelligence, es- cially constraint databases and constraint satisfaction problems. The ?nal chapter provides a concise modern introduction to modal logic,which emp- sizes the continuity in spirit and technique with ?nite model theory.
Download or read book Finite Model Theory written by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finite model theory has its origin in classical model theory, but owes its systematic development to research from complexity theory. The book presents the main results of descriptive complexity theory, that is, the connections between axiomatizability of classes of finite structures and their complexity with respect to time and space bounds. The logics that are important in this context include fixed- point logics, transitive closure logics, and also certain infinitary languages; their model theory is studied in full detail. Other topics include DATALOG languages, quantifiers and oracles, 0-1 laws, and optimization and approximation problems. The book is written in such a way that the resp. parts on model theory and descriptive complexity theory may be read independently.
Download or read book Finite Model Theory written by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finite model theory has its origin in classical model theory, but owes its systematic development to research from complexity theory. The book presents the main results of descriptive complexity theory, that is, the connections between axiomatizability of classes of finite structures and their complexity with respect to time and space bounds. The logics that are important in this context include fixed- point logics, transitive closure logics, and also certain infinitary languages; their model theory is studied in full detail. Other topics include DATALOG languages, quantifiers and oracles, 0-1 laws, and optimization and approximation problems. The book is written in such a way that the resp. parts on model theory and descriptive complexity theory may be read independently.
Download or read book Bounded Variable Logics and Counting written by Martin Otto and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph in finite model theory offers a comprehensive treatment of a variety of results in the model theory and descriptive complexity theory of infinitary logics with a bounded number of variables and logics with counting constructs. The exposition is largely self-contained, with introductory sections on the relevant logics, model theoretic concepts, and the programme of descriptive complexity.
Download or read book Computational and Algorithmic Problems in Finite Fields written by Igor Shparlinski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an exhaustive treatment of computation and algorithms for finite fields. Topics covered include polynomial factorization, finding irreducible and primitive polynomials, distribution of these primitive polynomials and of primitive points on elliptic curves, constructing bases of various types, and new applications of finite fields to other araes of mathematics. For completeness, also included are two special chapters on some recent advances and applications of the theory of congruences (optimal coefficients, congruential pseudo-random number generators, modular arithmetic etc.), and computational number theory (primality testing, factoring integers, computing in algebraic number theory, etc.) The problems considered here have many applications in computer science, coding theory, cryptography, number theory and discrete mathematics. The level of discussion presuppose only a knowledge of the basic facts on finite fields, and the book can be recommended as supplementary graduate text. For researchers and students interested in computational and algorithmic problems in finite fields.
Download or read book A Course in Model Theory written by Katrin Tent and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise introduction to current topics in model theory, including simple and stable theories.
Download or read book Finite Model Theory And Its Applications written by Grdel and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finite Markov Chains and Algorithmic Applications written by Olle Häggström and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a lecture course given at Chalmers University of Technology, this 2002 book is ideal for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students. The author first develops the necessary background in probability theory and Markov chains before applying it to study a range of randomized algorithms with important applications in optimization and other problems in computing. Amongst the algorithms covered are the Markov chain Monte Carlo method, simulated annealing, and the recent Propp-Wilson algorithm. This book will appeal not only to mathematicians, but also to students of statistics and computer science. The subject matter is introduced in a clear and concise fashion and the numerous exercises included will help students to deepen their understanding.
Download or read book Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity written by Rodney G. Downey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computability and complexity theory are two central areas of research in theoretical computer science. This book provides a systematic, technical development of "algorithmic randomness" and complexity for scientists from diverse fields.
Download or read book Logic and Games on Automatic Structures written by Lukasz Kaiser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation of a logical formula can be viewed as a game played by two opponents, one trying to show that the formula is true and the other trying to prove it is false. This correspondence has been known for a very long time and has inspired numerous research directions. In this book, the author extends this connection between logic and games to the class of automatic structures, where relations are recognized by synchronous finite automata. In model-checking games for automatic structures, two coalitions play against each other with a particular kind of hierarchical imperfect information. The investigation of such games leads to the introduction of a game quantifier on automatic structures, which connects alternating automata with the classical model-theoretic notion of a game quantifier. This study is then extended, determining the memory needed for strategies in infinitary games on the one hand, and characterizing regularity-preserving Lindström quantifiers on the other. Counting quantifiers are investigated in depth: it is shown that all countable omega-automatic structures are in fact finite-word automatic and that the infinity and uncountability set quantifiers are definable in MSO over countable linear orders and over labeled binary trees. This book is based on the PhD thesis of Lukasz Kaiser, which was awarded with the E.W. Beth award for outstanding dissertations in the fields of logic, language, and information in 2009. The work constitutes an innovative study in the area of algorithmic model theory, demonstrating the deep interplay between logic and computability in automatic structures. It displays very high technical and presentational quality and originality, advances significantly the field of algorithmic model theory and raises interesting new questions, thus emerging as a fruitful and inspiring source for future research.
Download or read book Studies in Model Theory written by Michael Darwin Morley and published by MAA Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Algorithmic Number Theory Efficient algorithms written by Eric Bach and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1.
Download or read book Dense Sphere Packings written by Thomas Hales and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 400-year-old Kepler conjecture asserts that no packing of congruent balls in three dimensions can have a density exceeding the familiar pyramid-shaped cannonball arrangement. In this book, a new proof of the conjecture is presented that makes it accessible for the first time to a broad mathematical audience. The book also presents solutions to other previously unresolved conjectures in discrete geometry, including the strong dodecahedral conjecture on the smallest surface area of a Voronoi cell in a sphere packing. This book is also currently being used as a blueprint for a large-scale formal proof project, which aims to check every logical inference of the proof of the Kepler conjecture by computer. This is an indispensable resource for those who want to be brought up to date with research on the Kepler conjecture.
Download or read book Topics in Graph Automorphisms and Reconstruction written by Josef Lauri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth coverage of selected areas of graph theory focusing on symmetry properties of graphs, ideal for beginners and specialists.
