Abstract. We present a probability logic (essentially a first order language extended with quantifiers that count the fraction of elements in a model that satisfy a first order ...
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...
In a data word or a data tree each position carries a label from a finite alphabet and a data value from some infinite domain. These models have been considered in the realm of sem...
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...
We study an approximation for the zero-variance change of measure to estimate the probability of a rare event in a continuous-time Markov chain. The rare event occurs when the cha...
Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Gerardo Rub...