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2010
IEEE
14 years 8 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
BIRTHDAY
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Reductio ad Absurdum: Planning Proofs by Contradiction
Sometimes it is pragmatically useful to prove a theorem by contradiction rather than finding a direct proof. Some reductio ad absurdum arguments have made mathematical history and ...
Erica Melis, Martin Pollet, Jörg H. Siekmann
CRYPTO
2001
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Soundness in the Public-Key Model
The public-key model for interactive proofs has proved to be quite effective in improving protocol efficiency [CGGM00]. We argue, however, that its soundness notion is more subtle...
Silvio Micali, Leonid Reyzin
CORR
1998
Springer
104views Education» more  CORR 1998»
14 years 9 months ago
Monotonicity and Persistence in Preferential Logics
An important characteristic of many logics for Arti cial Intelligence is their nonmonotonicity. This means that adding a formula to the premises can invalidate some of the consequ...
Joeri Engelfriet
IFM
2010
Springer
183views Formal Methods» more  IFM 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Certified Absence of Dangling Pointers in a Language with Explicit Deallocation
Safe is a first-order eager functional language with facilities for programmer controlled destruction and copying of data structures. It provides also regions, i.e. disjoint parts...
Javier de Dios, Manuel Montenegro, Ricardo Pe&ntil...