Fields of Logic and Computation

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

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.

• Büchi automata
• Rack
• abstract state machines
• algorithms
• ants
• automata theory
• complexity
• constructive mathematics
• decision procedures
• fixed-point logic
• formal methods
• foundations of computer science
• graph theory
• mathematical logic
• security
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• 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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