We prove an existential version of Gaifman’s locality theorem and show how it can be applied algorithmically to evaluate existential first-order sentences in finite structures....
Generalized databases will be examined, in which attributes can be sets of attributes, or sets of sets of attributes, and other higher type constructs. A precise semantics will be ...
Guarded fixed point logics are obtained by adding least and greatest fixed points to the guarded fragments of firstorder logic that were recently introduced by Andr