Various recent results about monadic second order logic and its fragments are presented. These results have been obtained in the framework of the EU TMR Project GETGRATS.
An existential fragment of second order logic
β Scribed by Eric Rosen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0933-5846
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