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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146418703321

Titolo

Logic and automata : history and perspectives / / edited by Jorg Flum, Erich Gradel, and Thomas Wilke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008

ISBN

90-485-0128-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (737 p.)

Collana

Texts in logic and games ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

FlumJorg

GradelErich <1958->

WilkeThomas <1965->

Disciplina

511.3

Soggetti

Machine theory

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Computer science - Mathematics

Computational complexity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Preface; 1. On the topological complexity of tree languages; 2. Nonederministic controllers of nondeterministic preocesses; 3. Reachability in continuous-time Markov reward decision processes; 4. Logical theories and compatible operations; 5. Forest algebras; 6. Automata and semigroups recognizing infinite words; 7. Deterministic graph grammars; 8. Quantifier-free definable graph opreations preserving recognizability; 9. First-order definable languages; 10. Matrix-based complexity functions and recognizable picture languages

11. Apllying Blackwell optimality: priority mean-payoff games as limits of multi-discounted games12. Logic, graphs and algorithms; 13. Non-regular fixed-points logics and games; 14. The universal automaton; 15. Deterministic top-down tree automata: past, present, and future; 16. Expressive power of monadic logics on words, trees, pictures and graphs; 17. Structured strategies in games on graphs; 18. Counting in trees; 19. Modular quantifiers; 20. Automata: from logics to algorithms

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of papers deal with challenges in disciplines such as complexity theory, games, algorithms and semi group theory and



discuss current chellenges in this field