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LOGCOM
2008
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Complete Axiomatization of Discrete-Measure Almost-Everywhere Quantification
Following recent developments in the topic of generalized quantifiers, and also having in mind applications in the areas of security and artificial intelligence, a conservative en...
Luís Cruz-Filipe, João Rasga, Am&iac...
LOGCOM
2008
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One-and-a-halfth-order Logic
The practice of first-order logic is replete with meta-level concepts. Most notably there are meta-variables ranging over formulae, variables, and terms, and properties of syntax s...
Murdoch James Gabbay, Aad Mathijssen
JNSM
2008
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Declarative Infrastructure Configuration Synthesis and Debugging
There is a large conceptual gap between end-to-end infrastructure requirements and detailed component configuration implementing those requirements. Today, this gap is manually br...
Sanjai Narain, Gary Levin, Sharad Malik, Vikram Ka...
JAPLL
2008
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The seven virtues of simple type theory
Simple type theory, also known as higher-order logic, is a natural extension of first-order logic which is simple, elegant, highly expressive, and practical. This paper surveys th...
William M. Farmer
JANCL
2008
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Modal logic and invariance
Consider any logical system, what is its natural repertoire of logical operations? This question has been raised in particular for first-order logic and its extensions with genera...
Johan van Benthem, Denis Bonnay
DEBU
2008
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A Short Overview of FLOWS: A First-Order Logic Ontology for Web Services
FLOWS is a first-order logic ontology for Web services and a W3C Submission. In this article, we describe some of the motivation behind the development of FLOWS, together with its...
Michael Grüninger, Richard Hull, Sheila A. Mc...
CORR
2008
Springer
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Metric Structures and Probabilistic Computation
Abstract. Continuous first-order logic is used to apply model-theoretic analysis to analytic structures (e.g. Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, probability spaces, etc.). Classical co...
Wesley Calvert
CIE
2008
Springer
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First-Order Model Checking Problems Parameterized by the Model
We study the complexity of the model checking problem, for fixed models A, over certain fragments L of first-order logic, obtained by restricting which of the quantifiers and boole...
Barnaby Martin
CSL
2010
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
Automata vs. Logics on Data Words
Abstract. The relationship between automata and logics has been investigated since the 1960s. In particular, it was shown how to determine, given an automaton, whether or not it is...
Michael Benedikt, Clemens Ley, Gabriele Puppis
IJCAI
2003
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Automated Reasoning: Past Story and New Trends
We overview the development of first-order automated reasoning systems starting from their early years. Based on the analysis of current and potential applications of such systems...
Andrei Voronkov