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PODS
2009
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
The finite model theory toolbox of a database theoretician
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...
Leonid Libkin
LICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Modal Characterisation Theorems over Special Classes of Frames
We investigate model theoretic characterisations of the expressive power of modal logics in terms of bisimulation invariance. The paradigmatic result of this kind is van Benthemâ€...
Anuj Dawar, Martin Otto
CSFW
1999
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Meta-Notation for Protocol Analysis
Most formal approaches to security protocol analysis are based on a set of assumptions commonly referred to as the "Dolev-Yao model." In this paper, we use a multiset re...
Iliano Cervesato, Nancy A. Durgin, Patrick Lincoln...
LICS
2010
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Fixed-Point Definability and Polynomial Time on Graphs with Excluded Minors
We prove that fixed-point logic with counting captures polynomial time on all classes of graphs with excluded minors. That is, for every class C of graphs such that some graph H is...
Martin Grohe
PERCOM
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
DiaSim: A Parameterized Simulator for Pervasive Computing Applications
Abstract--Pervasive computing applications involve both software concerns, like any software system, and integration concerns, for the constituent networked devices of the pervasiv...
Wilfried Jouve, Julien Bruneau, Charles Consel