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Minimal nontrivial space complexity of probabilistic one- way turing machines
2005
Languages recognizable in o(log log n) space by probabilistic one — way Turing machines are proved to be regular. This solves an open problem in [4].
Efficient CNF Encoding of Boolean Cardinality Constraints
2003
In this paper, we address the encoding into CNF clauses of Boolean cardinality constraints that arise in many practical applications. The proposed encoding is efficient with respect to unit propagation, which is implemented in almost all complete CNF satisfiability solvers. We prove the practical efficiency of this encoding on some problems arising in discrete tomography that involve many cardinality constraints. This encoding is also used together with a trivial variable elimination in order to re-encode parity learning benchmarks so that a simple Davis and Putnam procedure can solve them.
The monadic quantifier alternation hierarchy over grids and pictures
1998
The subject of this paper is the expressive power of monadic second-order logic over two-dimensional grids. We give a new, self-contained game-theoretical proof of the nonexpressibility results of Matz and Thomas. As we show, this implies the strictness of the monadic second-order quantifier alternation hierarchy over grids.
Size of Quantum Finite State Transducers
2007
Sizes of quantum and deterministic finite state transducers are compared in the case when both quantum and deterministic finite state transducers exist. The difference in size may be exponential.
On Finite Satisfiability of the Guarded Fragment with Equivalence or Transitive Guards
2007
The guarded fragment of first-order logic, GF, enjoys the finite model property, so the satisfiability and the finite satisfiability problems coincide. We are concerned with two extensions of the two-variable guarded fragment that do not possess the finite model property, namely, GF2 with equivalence and GF2 with transitive guards. We prove that in both cases every finitely satisfiable formula has a model of at most double exponential size w.r.t. its length. To obtain the result we invent a strategy of building finite models that are formed from a number of multidimensional grids placed over a cylindrical surface. The construction yields a 2NEXPTIME-upper bound on the complexity of the fini…
Counting in the Two Variable Guarded Logic with Transitivity
2005
We show that the extension of the two-variable guarded fragment with transitive guards (GF+TG) by functionality statements is undecidable. This gives immediately undecidability of the extension of GF+TG by counting quantifiers. The result is optimal, since both the three-variable fragment of the guarded fragment with counting quantifiers and the two-variable guarded fragment with transitivity are undecidable. We also show that the extension of GF+TG with functionality, where functional predicate letters appear in guards only, is decidable and of the same complexity as GF+TG. This fragment captures many expressive modal and description logics.
Graph Connectivity, Monadic NP and built-in relations of moderate degree
1995
It has been conjectured [FSV93] that an existential secondoder formula, in which the second-order quantification is restricted to unary relations (i.e. a Monadic NP formula), cannot express Graph Connectivity even in the presence of arbitrary built-in relations.
Theory of tailor automata
2019
Abstract In the paper, a fragment of the new theory of tailor automata is presented, within which a deterministic finite automaton was defined. The proposed automaton provides a theoretical model of an informally characterized biomolecular automaton. The idea of working of which is founded on the concept of alternating cut of some double-stranded fragments of DNA, with the use of a restriction enzyme and ligations of some double-stranded fragments of DNA, with the use of the ligase enzyme.
Literacy and literacy practices: Plurilingual connected migrants and emerging literacy
2021
Abstract Recent migration towards Europe is characterized by the massive presence of adults whose educational paths have been interrupted and who are thus developing literacy for the first time in a new language. A literacy test elaborated at the University of Palermo, Italy, showed that, on a sample of 774 migrants, about 30 percent could not read and/or write short words. This test assessed the learners’ abilities to read and write, whether in the Roman alphabet or in other writing systems, and whether in Italian or in other languages of learners’ repertoires. These learners with emergent literacy mostly came from sub-Saharan Africa, an area characterized by diverse forms of multilinguali…
Two Methods for Schema Design for Intelligent XML Documents in Organizations
2007
XML markup language provides means for incorporating semantics, i.e. “meaning” of logical content parts residing within documents. Therefore it has become the lingua franca for Semantic Web, e-Business applications and for enterprise application integration. In order to realize novel, intelligent XML-based document applications in organizations, schemas defining the domain-oriented semantics are needed. So far, the potential of XML has not bee fully utilized in organizational documents, due to the lack of XML support in common and inexpensive office software. Due to the arrival of XML support on common software such as Microsoft Office 2007 and Open Office 2.0 organizations need knowledge a…