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STACS
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
A Toolkit for First Order Extensions of Monadic Games
In 1974 R. Fagin proved that properties of structures which are in NP are exactly the same as those expressible by existential second order sentences, that is sentences of the form...
David Janin, Jerzy Marcinkowski
ICDT
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
How big must complete XML query languages be?
Marx and de Rijke have shown that the navigational core of the w3c XML query language XPath is not first-order complete ? that is it cannot express every query definable in firsto...
Clemens Ley, Michael Benedikt
CORR
2008
Springer
118views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A Logic Programming Framework for Combinational Circuit Synthesis
Abstract. Logic Programming languages and combinational circuit synthesis tools share a common "combinatorial search over logic formulae" background. This paper attempts ...
Paul Tarau, Brenda Luderman
ECCC
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Interactive PCP
A central line of research in the area of PCPs is devoted to constructing short PCPs. In this paper, we show that if we allow an additional interactive verification phase, with v...
Yael Tauman Kalai, Ran Raz
CSCLP
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Efficient Decision Procedure for Functional Decomposable Theories Based on Dual Constraints
Abstract. Over the last decade, first-order constraints have been efficiently used in the artificial intelligence world to model many kinds of complex problems such as: scheduling,...
Khalil Djelloul