Bounded treewidth and Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic have proved to be key concepts in establishing fixed-parameter tractability results. Indeed, by Courcelle's Theorem we ...
Bottom-up tree series transducers (tst) over the semiring A are implemented with the help of bottom-up weighted tree automata (wta) over an extension of A. Therefore bottom-up D-w...
We show that it is equivalent, for certain sets of finite graphs, to be definable in CMS (counting monadic second-order, a natural extension of monoadic second-order logic), and t...
This article studies the expressive power of finite automata recognizing sets of real numbers encoded in positional notation. We consider Muller automata as well as the restricted ...
We are interested in the expressiveness of constraints represented by general first order formulae, with equality as unique relation symbol and function symbols taken from an infi...