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CONCUR
2012
Springer
12 years 2 months ago
Decidability Problems for Actor Systems
We introduce a nominal actor-based language and study its expressive power. We have identified the presence/absence of fields as a relevant feature: the dynamic creation of names...
Frank S. de Boer, Mahdi Mahdi Jaghoori, Cosimo Lan...
AMW
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Subqueries in SPARQL
Subqueries are a poweful feature which allows to enforce reuse, composition, rewriting and optimization in a query language. In this paper we perform a comprehensive study of the i...
Renzo Angles, Claudio Gutierrez
NDJFL
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Polyadic Quantification via Denoting Concepts
The question of the origin of polyadic expressivity is explored and the results are brought to bear on Bertrand Russell's 1903 theory of denoting concepts, which is the main o...
Ori Simchen
MST
2011
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13 years 7 months ago
Weighted Logics for Unranked Tree Automata
: We define a weighted monadic second order logic for unranked trees and the concept of weighted unranked tree automata, and we investigate the expressive power of these two conce...
Manfred Droste, Heiko Vogler
LICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Expressive Power of Synchronizations
A synchronization is a mechanism allowing two or more processes to perform actions at the same time. We study the expressive power of synchronizations gathering more and more proc...
Cosimo Laneve, Antonio Vitale
LATA
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Language-Based Comparison of Petri Nets with Black Tokens, Pure Names and Ordered Data
We apply language theory to compare the expressive power of models that extend Petri nets with features like colored tokens and/or whole place operations. Specifically, we conside...
Fernando Rosa Velardo, Giorgio Delzanno
CI
2000
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13 years 11 months ago
A Guided Tour through Some Extensions of the Event Calculus
Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus (EC) is a simple temporal formalism that, given a set of event occurrences, derives the maximal validity intervals (MVIs) over which prop...
Iliano Cervesato, Massimo Franceschet, Angelo Mont...
APAL
2004
87views more  APAL 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Expressive equivalence of least and inflationary fixed-point logic
We study the relationship between least and inflationary fixed-point logic. In 1986, Gurevich and Shelah proved that in the restriction to finite structures, the two logics have t...
Stephan Kreutzer
IANDC
2007
111views more  IANDC 2007»
13 years 12 months ago
Expressiveness and complexity of graph logic
We investigate the complexity and expressive power of a spatial logic for reasoning about graphs. This logic was previously introduced by Cardelli, Gardner and Ghelli, and provide...
Anuj Dawar, Philippa Gardner, Giorgio Ghelli
JOLLI
2006
101views more  JOLLI 2006»
13 years 12 months ago
A Note on the Expressive Power of Probabilistic Context Free Grammars
We examine the expressive power of probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs), with a special focus on the use of probabilities as a mechanism for reducing ambiguity by filtering ...
Gabriel G. Infante López, Maarten de Rijke