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ICALP
2005
Springer
13 years 11 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 5 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 10 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 5 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 5 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