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ICALP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Preservation Under Extensions on Well-Behaved Finite Structures
A class of relational structures is said to have the extension preservation property if every first-order sentence that is preserved under extensions on the class is equivalent t...
Albert Atserias, Anuj Dawar, Martin Grohe
PODS
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
On Preservation under Homomorphisms and Unions of Conjunctive Queries
Unions of conjunctive queries, also known as select-project-join-union queries, are the most frequently asked queries in relational database systems. These queries are definable b...
Albert Atserias, Anuj Dawar, Phokion G. Kolaitis
BIRTHDAY
1997
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Syntax vs. Semantics on Finite Structures
Abstract. Logic preservation theorems often have the form of a syntax/semantics correspondence. For example, the Los-Tarski theorem asserts that a rst-order sentence is preserved b...
Natasha Alechina, Yuri Gurevich
JMLR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Finite-Time Bounds for Fitted Value Iteration
In this paper we develop a theoretical analysis of the performance of sampling-based fitted value iteration (FVI) to solve infinite state-space, discounted-reward Markovian decisi...
Rémi Munos, Csaba Szepesvári
ENTCS
2006
172views more  ENTCS 2006»
13 years 4 months ago
Locality of Queries and Transformations
Locality is a standard notion of finite model theory. There are two well known flavors of it, based on Hanf's and Gaifman's theorems. Essentially they say that structure...
Leonid Libkin