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AAAI
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Towards a Logic-Based Theory of Argumentation
There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumentation in logic. They incorporate formal representation of individual arguments and techniques for comparing conflicting argu...
Philippe Besnard, Anthony Hunter
CSL
2009
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Fixed-Point Definability and Polynomial Time
My talk will be a survey of recent results about the quest for a logic capturing polynomial time. In a fundamental study of database query languages, Chandra and Harel [4] first ra...
Martin Grohe
ER
1995
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
A Logic Framework for a Semantics of Object-Oriented Data Modeling
We describe a (meta) formalism for defining a variety of (object oriented) data models in a unified framework based on a variation of first-order logic. As specific example we use...
Olga De Troyer, Robert Meersman
BIRTHDAY
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Fixed-Point Definability and Polynomial Time on Chordal Graphs and Line Graphs
The question of whether there is a logic that captures polynomial time was formulated by Yuri Gurevich in 1988. It is still wide open and regarded as one of the main open problems...
Martin Grohe
CORR
2008
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
One useful logic that defines its own truth
Existential fixed point logic (EFPL) is a natural fit for some applications, and the purpose of this talk is to attract attention to EFPL. The logic is also interesting in its own ...
Andreas Blass, Yuri Gurevich