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Fields of Logic and Computation

Essays Dedicated to Yuri Gurevich on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

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Editors:
  1. Andreas Blass

    1. Mathematics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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  2. Nachum Dershowitz

    1. School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  3. Wolfgang Reisig

    1. Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6300)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. On Yuri Gurevich

    1. Yuri, Logic, and Computer Science

      • Andreas Blass, Nachum Dershowitz, Wolfgang Reisig
      Pages 1-48

    2. Database Theory, Yuri, and Me

      • Jan Van den Bussche
      Pages 49-60

  3. Technical Papers

    1. Tracking Evidence

      • Sergei Artemov
      Pages 61-74

    2. Strict Canonical Constructive Systems

      • Arnon Avron, Ori Lahav
      Pages 75-94

    3. Decidable Expansions of Labelled Linear Orderings

      • Alexis Bès, Alexander Rabinovich
      Pages 95-107

    4. Existential Fixed-Point Logic, Universal Quantifiers, and Topoi

      • Andreas Blass
      Pages 108-134

    5. Three Paths to Effectiveness

      • Udi Boker, Nachum Dershowitz
      Pages 135-146

    6. The Quest for a Tight Translation of Büchi to co-Büchi Automata

      • Udi Boker, Orna Kupferman
      Pages 147-164

    7. Normalization of Some Extended Abstract State Machines

      • Patrick Cégielski, Irène Guessarian
      Pages 165-180

    8. Finding Reductions Automatically

      • Michael Crouch, Neil Immerman, J. Eliot B. Moss
      Pages 181-200

    9. On Complete Problems, Relativizations and Logics for Complexity Classes

      • Anuj Dawar
      Pages 201-207

    10. Effective Closed Subshifts in 1D Can Be Implemented in 2D

      • Bruno Durand, Andrei Romashchenko, Alexander Shen
      Pages 208-226

    11. The Model Checking Problem for Prefix Classes of Second-Order Logic: A Survey

      • Thomas Eiter, Georg Gottlob, Thomas Schwentick
      Pages 227-250

    12. A Logic for PTIME and a Parameterized Halting Problem

      • Yijia Chen, Jörg Flum
      Pages 251-276

    13. Inferring Loop Invariants Using Postconditions

      • Carlo Alberto Furia, Bertrand Meyer
      Pages 277-300

    14. ASMs and Operational Algorithmic Completeness of Lambda Calculus

      • Marie Ferbus-Zanda, Serge Grigorieff
      Pages 301-327

    15. Fixed-Point Definability and Polynomial Time on Chordal Graphs and Line Graphs

      • Martin Grohe
      Pages 328-353

    16. Ibn Sīnā on Analysis: 1. Proof Search. Or: Abstract State Machines as a Tool for History of Logic

      • Wilfrid Hodges
      Pages 354-404

    17. Abstract State Machines and the Inquiry Process

      • James K. Huggins, Charles Wallace
      Pages 405-413
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About this book

Yuri Gurevich has played a major role in the discovery and development of - plications of mathematical logic to theoretical and practical computer science. His interests have spanned a broad spectrum of subjects, including decision p- cedures, the monadic theory of order, abstract state machines, formal methods, foundations of computer science, security, and much more. In May 2010, Yuri celebrated his 70th birthday. To mark that occasion, on August 22, 2010,a symposium was held in Brno, the Czech Republic, as a sat- lite event of the 35th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2010) and of the 19th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2010). The meeting received generous support from Microsoft Research. In preparation for this 70th birthday event, we asked Yuri’s colleagues (whether or not they were able to attend the symposium) to contribute to a volume in his honor. This book is the result of that e?ort. The collection of articles herein begins with an academic biography, an annotated list of Yuri’s publications and reports, and a personaltribute by Jan Van den Bussche. These are followed by 28 technical contributions. These articles – though they cover a broad range of topics – represent only a fraction of Yuri’s multiple areas of interest. Each contribution was reviewed by one or two readers. In this regard, the editors wish to thank several anonymous individuals for their assistance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mathematics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Andreas Blass

  • School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Nachum Dershowitz

  • Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Reisig

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