Finite model theory is an area of mathematical logic that grew out of computer science applications. The main sources of motivational examples for finite model theory are found in database theory, computational complexity, and formal languages, although in recent years connections with other areas, such as formal methods and verification, and artificial intelligence, have been discovered. The birth of finite model theory is often identified with Trakhtenbrot's result from 1950 stating that validity over finite models is not recursively enumerable; in other words, completeness fails over...
Finite model theory is an area of mathematical logic that grew out of computer science applications. The main sources of motivational examples for fin...
The authors are much indebted to many friends and collaborators whose con tributions to automata and language theory approach to DNA computing can be recognized in the present book. The bibliography specifies their names and we shall not repeat them here. Some of them have also read previous versions of various chapters, suggesting modifications which have improved the readability of the text. Many thanks are due in this respect to Tom Head, Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Vincenzo Manca, Alexandru Mateescu, Victor Mi trana, Andrei Paun, and Nike van Vugt. In particular, we are grateful to our...
The authors are much indebted to many friends and collaborators whose con tributions to automata and language theory approach to DNA computing can be ...
to Circuit COIllplexity A Uniform Approach With 29 Figures, Springer Author Dr. Heribert Vollmer Universitiit Wurzburg Theoretische Informatik Am Exerzierplatz 3 D-97072 Wurzburg, Germany vollmer@informatik. uni-wuerzburg. de Series Editors Prof. Dr. Wilfried Brauer Institut fUr Informatik, Technische Universitiit Munchen Arcisstrasse 21, D-80333 Munchen, Germany Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rozenberg Department of Computer Science, University of Leiden Niels Bohrweg 1, P. O. Box 9512, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Prof. Dr. Arto Salomaa Data City, Turku Centre for Computer Science FIN-20520 Turku,...
to Circuit COIllplexity A Uniform Approach With 29 Figures, Springer Author Dr. Heribert Vollmer Universitiit Wurzburg Theoretische Informatik Am Exer...
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Preface Due to the development of hardware technologies (such as VLSI) in the early 1980s, the interest in parallel and distributive computing has been rapidly growingandinthelate1980sthestudyofparallelalgorithmsandarchitectures became one of the main topics in computer science. To bring the topic to educatorsandstudents, severalbooksonparallelcomputingwerewritten. The involvedtextbook"IntroductiontoParallelAlgorithmsandArchitectures"by F. Thomson Leighton in 1992 was one of the milestones in the development of parallel architectures and parallel algorithms. But in the last decade or so the...
Preface Due to the development of hardware technologies (such as VLSI) in the early 1980s, the interest in parallel and distributive computing has bee...
Finite model theory is an area of mathematical logic that grew out of computer science applications. The main sources of motivational examples for finite model theory are found in database theory, computational complexity, and formal languages, although in recent years connections with other areas, such as formal methods and verification, and artificial intelligence, have been discovered. The birth of finite model theory is often identified with Trakhtenbrot's result from 1950 stating that validity over finite models is not recursively enumerable; in other words, completeness fails over...
Finite model theory is an area of mathematical logic that grew out of computer science applications. The main sources of motivational examples for fin...
Personal motivation. The dream of creating artificial devices that reach or outperform human inteUigence is an old one. It is also one of the dreams of my youth, which have never left me. What makes this challenge so interesting? A solution would have enormous implications on our society, and there are reasons to believe that the AI problem can be solved in my expected lifetime. So, it's worth sticking to it for a lifetime, even if it takes 30 years or so to reap the benefits. The AI problem. The science of artificial intelligence (AI) may be defined as the construction of intelligent systems...
Personal motivation. The dream of creating artificial devices that reach or outperform human inteUigence is an old one. It is also one of the dreams o...
The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice and science of developing large-scale software products needs a professional base. The textbooks in this three-volume set combine informal, engineeringly sound approaches with the rigor of formal, mathematics-based approaches.
This volume covers the basic principles and techniques of specifying systems and languages. It deals with modelling the semiotics (pragmatics, semantics and syntax of systems and languages), modelling spatial and simple temporal phenomena, and such specialized topics as modularity (incl. UML class diagrams),...
The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice and science of developing large-scale software products needs a professional base. The textbooks in thi...
The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice, and science of developing large-scale software products needs a believable, professional base. The textbooks in this three-volume set combine informal, engineeringly sound practice with the rigour of formal, mathematics-based approaches.
Volume 3 is based on the maxim: "Before software can be designed its requirements must be well understood, and before the requirements can be expressed properly the domain of the application must be well understood." This book covers the process from the development of domain descriptions, via the...
The art, craft, discipline, logic, practice, and science of developing large-scale software products needs a believable, professional base. The tex...
