LICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2010
IEEE
One of the major interests of finite model theory is to separate the expressive power of different logics or fragments of logics. In this paper, we define a variant of EhrenfeuchtF...
ENTCS
2006
14 years 13 days ago
2006
Locality is a standard notion of finite model theory. There are two well known flavors of it, based on Hanf's and Gaifman's theorems. Essentially they say that structure...
CIE
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
There are many ways to define complexity in logic. In finite model theory, it is the complexity of describing properties, whereas in proof complexity it is the complexity of provin...
PODS
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
2009
ACM
For many years, finite model theory was viewed as the backbone of database theory, and database theory in turn supplied finite model theory with key motivations and problems. By n...