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Elements of Finite Model Theory /

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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Libkin, Leonid
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Series:Texts in Theoretical Computer Science An EATCS Series.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Computer software.
Database management.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Preliminaries
  • Ehrenfeuch-Fraissé Games
  • Locality and Winning Games
  • Ordered Structures
  • Complexity of First-Order Logic
  • Monadic Second Order Logic and Automata
  • Logics with Counting
  • Turing Machines and Finite Models
  • Fixed Point Logics and Complexity Classes
  • Finite Variable Logics
  • Zero-one Laws
  • Embedded Finite Models
  • Other Applications of Finite Model Theory
  • References
  • List of Notations
  • Index
  • Name Index.