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2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Role of Decidability in First Order Separations over Classes of Finite Structures
We establish that the decidability of the first order theory of a class of finite structures ¢ is a simple and useful condition for guaranteeing that the expressive power of FO...
Steven Lindell, Scott Weinstein
FAW
2008
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  FAW 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient First-Order Model-Checking Using Short Labels
We prove that there exists an O(log(n))-labeling scheme for every first-order formula with free set variables in every class of graphs that is nicely locally cwd-decomposable, whic...
Bruno Courcelle, Cyril Gavoille, Mamadou Moustapha...
LATA
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Untestable Properties Expressible with Four First-Order Quantifiers
Abstract. In property testing, the goal is to distinguish between structures that have some desired property and those that are far from having the property, after examining only a...
Charles Jordan and Thomas Zeugmann
WOLLIC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Spoilt for Choice: Full First-Order Hierarchical Decompositions
Abstract. Database design aims to find a database schema that permits the efficient processing of common types of queries and updates on future database instances. Full first-ord...
Sebastian Link
ICDT
2005
ACM
139views Database» more  ICDT 2005»
14 years 28 days ago
First Order Paths in Ordered Trees
We give two sufficient conditions on XPath like languages for having first order expressivity, meaning that every first order definable set of paths in an ordered node-labeled t...
Maarten Marx