Local (first order) sentences, introduced by Ressayre, enjoy very nice decidability properties, following from some stretching theorems stating some remarkable links between the ...
Kolaitis and Vardi pointed out that constraint satisfaction and conjunctive query containment are essentially the same problem. We study the Boolean conjunctive queries under a mor...
Michael Bauland, Philippe Chapdelaine, Nadia Creig...
Preferences of a single agent are often partially ordered. For example, it may be hard to compare a novel with a biography. In such a situation, the agent may want the novel and t...
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent ...
Abstract. In this paper we review some well-known theory about reduction strategies of various kinds: normalizing, outermost-fair, cofinal, Church-Rosser. A stumbling block in the...
Jan Willem Klop, Vincent van Oostrom, Femke van Ra...
We describe an embedding of the ACL2 logic into higherorder logic. An implementation of this embedding allows ACL2 to be used as an oracle for higher-order logic provers. Categori...
Michael J. C. Gordon, Warren A. Hunt Jr., Matt Kau...