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2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Modal Characterisation Theorems over Special Classes of Frames
We investigate model theoretic characterisations of the expressive power of modal logics in terms of bisimulation invariance. The paradigmatic result of this kind is van Benthemā€...
Anuj Dawar, Martin Otto
SOFSEM
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Exhaustive Search, Combinatorial Optimization and Enumeration: Exploring the Potential of Raw Computing Power
For half a century since computers came into existence, the goal of finding elegant and efficient algorithms to solve "simple" (welldefined and well-structured) problems ...
Jürg Nievergelt
ICALP
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Model Theory Makes Formulas Large
Gaifmanā€™s locality theorem states that every ļ¬rst-order sentence is equivalent to a local sentence. We show that there is no elementary bound on the length of the local sentenc...
Anuj Dawar, Martin Grohe, Stephan Kreutzer, Nicole...
CIE
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
From a Zoo to a Zoology: Descriptive Complexity for Graph Polynomials
Abstract. We outline a general theory of graph polynomials which covers all the examples we found in the vast literature, in particular, the chromatic polynomial, various generaliz...
Johann A. Makowsky
GC
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Intriguing Sets of Vertices of Regular Graphs
Intriguing and tight sets of vertices of point-line geometries have recently been studied in the literature. In this paper, we indicate a more general framework for dealing with t...
Bart De Bruyn, Hiroshi Suzuki