Finite Model Theory and Its Applications
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This book gives a broad overview of core topics of finite model theory: expressive power, descriptive complexity, and zero-one laws, together with selected applications to database theory and artificial intelligence, especially, constraint databases and constraint satisfaction problems. The final chapter provides a concise modern introduction to modal logic, which emphasizes the continuity in spirit and technique with finite model theory. This underlying spirit involves the use of various fragments of, and hierarchies within, first order, second order, fixed point, and infinitary logics to gain insight into phenomena in complexity theory and combinatorics.
The book emphasizes the use of combinatorial games, such as extensions and refinements of the Ehrenfeucht-Fraissé pebble game, as a powerful technique for analyzing the expressive power of such logics, and illustrates how deep notions from model theory and combinatorics, such as o-minimality and tree-width, arise naturally in the application of finite model theory to database theory and AI. Students of logic and computer science will find here the tools necessary to embark on research in finite model theory, and all readers will experience the excitement of a vibrant area of application of logic to computer science.
This book gives a broad overview of core topics of finite model theory: expressive power, descriptive complexity, and zero-one laws, together with selected applications to database theory and artificial intelligence, especially, constraint databases and constraint satisfaction problems. The final chapter provides a concise modern introduction to modal logic, which emphasizes the continuity in spirit and technique with finite model theory. Students of logic and computer science will find here the tools necessary to embark on research in finite model theory, and all readers will experience the excitement of a vibrant area of application of logic to computer science.
An introduction to the central topics in finite-model theory together with par-excellence applications of finite-model theory to database theory and AI Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Erich Grädel
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"This book has its origins in a workshop held in Philadelphia in 1999 … . The chapters are of an expository nature, each one providing an excellent starting point to explore the research literature in the relevant topic. … I found it to be a more accessible introduction to the subject … and a useful starting point for graduate students entering the subject. … This will appeal … to those readers trained in classical traditions of logic who wish to approach the subject." (Anuj Dawar, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2009 i)
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