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Automata for Branching and Layered Temporal Structures: An Investigation into Regularities of Infinite Transition Systems

By Gabriele Puppis (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
9783642118814, 364211881X
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-11881-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2053927 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5955 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
1
Pages
206\213
Time added
2013-04-24 17:00:00
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logics aCompilersInterpreters; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Compl

Description

Since 2002, FoLLI awards an annual prize for an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. This book is based on the Ph.D. thesis of Gabriele Puppis, who was the winner of the E.W. Beth dissertation award for 2007. Puppis' thesis focuses on Logic and Computation and, more specifically, on automata-based decidability techniques for time granularity and on a new method for deciding Monadic Second Order theories of trees. The results presented represent a significant step towards a better understanding of the changes in granularity levels that humans make so easily in cognition of time, space, and other phenomena, whereas their logical and computational structure poses difficult conceptual and computational challenges.

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