We establish that the decidability of the first order theory of a class of finite structures ¢ is a simple and useful condition for guaranteeing that the expressive power of FO...
Over a decade ago, Schoning introduced the concept of lowness into structural complexity theory. Since then a large body of results has been obtained classifying various complexit...
We use graphical models to explore the question of how people learn simple causal relationships from data. The two leading psychological theories can both be seen as estimating th...
We show how to approximate the feasible region of structured convex optimization problems by a family of convex sets with explicitly given and efficient (if the accuracy of the ap...
We review the notion of hypertree width, a measure of the degree of cyclicity of hypergraphs that is useful for identifying and solving efficiently easy instances of hard problems...