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This is a thoroughly revised and enlarged second edition that presents the main results of descriptive complexity theory, that is, the connections between axiomatizability of classes of finite structures and their complexity with respect to time and space bounds. The logics that are important in this context include fixed-point logics, transitive closure logics, and also certain infinitary languages; their model theory is studied in full detail. The book is written in such a way that the respective parts on model theory and descriptive complexity theory may be read independently.

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Preliminaries.- The Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Method.- More on Games.- 0-1 Laws.- Satisfiability in the Finite.- Finite Automata and Logic: A Microcosm of Finite Model Theory.- Descriptive Complexity Theory.- Logics with Fixed-Point Operators.- Logic Programs.- Optimization Problems.- Logics for PTIME.- Quantifiers and Logical Reductions.

Finite Model Theory: Second Edition

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      Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
      Publication Date: 06/10/2005
      ISBN13: 9783540287872, 978-3540287872
      ISBN10: 3540287876
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      Computing Mathematical theory of computation Mathematics Mathematical foundations Mathematical logic

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a thoroughly revised and enlarged second edition that presents the main results of descriptive complexity theory, that is, the connections between axiomatizability of classes of finite structures and their complexity with respect to time and space bounds. The logics that are important in this context include fixed-point logics, transitive closure logics, and also certain infinitary languages; their model theory is studied in full detail. The book is written in such a way that the respective parts on model theory and descriptive complexity theory may be read independently.

      Table of Contents
      Preliminaries.- The Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Method.- More on Games.- 0-1 Laws.- Satisfiability in the Finite.- Finite Automata and Logic: A Microcosm of Finite Model Theory.- Descriptive Complexity Theory.- Logics with Fixed-Point Operators.- Logic Programs.- Optimization Problems.- Logics for PTIME.- Quantifiers and Logical Reductions.

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