The present thesis consists of two parts. Based on syntactic closure axioms of formula sets, the first part gives a formal definition of logic fragments. It also shows the versatileness of this notion of logic fragments, inter alia, giving, C-variety descriptions of logic fragments and abstractly investigating the influence of certain predicates on the expressiveness of logic fragments. The second part considers two-variable first-order logic FO2. A combinatorial description in terms of so-called rankers is given for all full levels as well as all half levels of the quantifier alternation hierarchy of FO2 over the order predicate, both with and without the successor predicate. Also in the second part, effective algebraic criteria...
AbstractIn this paper, we explore the expressive power of fragments of monadic second-order logic en...
Using a recently introduced algebraic framework for classifying fragments of first-order logic, we s...
abstract: It is well-known that first-order logic is semi-decidable. Therefore, first-order logic is...
Abstract. We consider the class of languages defined in the 2-variable fragment of the first-order l...
We investigate the decidability of the definability problem for fragments of first order logic over ...
Abstract. We will investigate the relationships between classes of formal languages defined by vario...
This thesis studies decidable fragments of first-order logic which are relevant to the field of nonc...
This thesis studies the expressive power of restricted fragments of first order logic on words with ...
The alternation hierarchy in two-variable first-order logic FO 2 [∈ < ∈] over words was recently sho...
We begin with a disucssion of some of the serious deficiencies of first order predicate languages. T...
We consider the quantifier alternation hierarchy within two-variable first-order logic FO^2[<,suc] o...
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The alternation hierarchy in two-variable first-or...
We investigate the decidability of the definability problem for fragments of first order logic over ...
Mazurkiewicz trace are a model for concurrency. They can be seen as a generalization of words by int...
© 2015 EDP Sciences. Adding modular predicates yields a generalization of first-order logic FO over ...
AbstractIn this paper, we explore the expressive power of fragments of monadic second-order logic en...
Using a recently introduced algebraic framework for classifying fragments of first-order logic, we s...
abstract: It is well-known that first-order logic is semi-decidable. Therefore, first-order logic is...
Abstract. We consider the class of languages defined in the 2-variable fragment of the first-order l...
We investigate the decidability of the definability problem for fragments of first order logic over ...
Abstract. We will investigate the relationships between classes of formal languages defined by vario...
This thesis studies decidable fragments of first-order logic which are relevant to the field of nonc...
This thesis studies the expressive power of restricted fragments of first order logic on words with ...
The alternation hierarchy in two-variable first-order logic FO 2 [∈ < ∈] over words was recently sho...
We begin with a disucssion of some of the serious deficiencies of first order predicate languages. T...
We consider the quantifier alternation hierarchy within two-variable first-order logic FO^2[<,suc] o...
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The alternation hierarchy in two-variable first-or...
We investigate the decidability of the definability problem for fragments of first order logic over ...
Mazurkiewicz trace are a model for concurrency. They can be seen as a generalization of words by int...
© 2015 EDP Sciences. Adding modular predicates yields a generalization of first-order logic FO over ...
AbstractIn this paper, we explore the expressive power of fragments of monadic second-order logic en...
Using a recently introduced algebraic framework for classifying fragments of first-order logic, we s...
abstract: It is well-known that first-order logic is semi-decidable. Therefore, first-order logic is...