Author: Giuseppe F Italiano Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3662480573 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 459
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This two volume set LNCS 9234 and 9235 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in August 2015. The 82 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully selected from 201 submissions. The papers feature high-quality research in all branches of theoretical computer science. They have been organized in the following topical main sections: logic, semantics, automata, and theory of programming (volume 1) and algorithms, complexity, and games (volume 2).
Author: Giuseppe F. Italiano Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3662480549 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 615
Book Description
This two volume set LNCS 9234 and 9235 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in August 2015. The 82 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully selected from 201 submissions. The papers feature high-quality research in all branches of theoretical computer science. They have been organized in the following topical main sections: logic, semantics, automata, and theory of programming (volume 1) and algorithms, complexity, and games (volume 2).
Author: John Vince Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319214373 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 334
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John Vince describes a range of mathematical topics to provide a foundation for an undergraduate course in computer science, starting with a review of number systems and their relevance to digital computers, and finishing with differential and integral calculus. Readers will find that the author's visual approach will greatly improve their understanding as to why certain mathematical structures exist, together with how they are used in real-world applications. Each chapter includes full-colour illustrations to clarify the mathematical descriptions, and in some cases, equations are also coloured to reveal vital algebraic patterns. The numerous worked examples will consolidate comprehension of abstract mathematical concepts. Foundation Mathematics for Computer Science covers number systems, algebra, logic, trigonometry, coordinate systems, determinants, vectors, matrices, geometric matrix transforms, differential and integral calculus, and reveals the names of the mathematicians behind such inventions. During this journey, John Vince touches upon more esoteric topics such as quaternions, octonions, Grassmann algebra, Barycentric coordinates, transfinite sets and prime numbers. Whether you intend to pursue a career in programming, scientific visualisation, systems design, or real-time computing, you should find the author’s literary style refreshingly lucid and engaging, and prepare you for more advanced texts.
Author: Peter A. Fejer Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461230861 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 433
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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Volume I is the first of two volumes presenting topics from mathematics (mostly discrete mathematics) which have proven relevant and useful to computer science. This volume treats basic topics, mostly of a set-theoretical nature (sets, functions and relations, partially ordered sets, induction, enumerability, and diagonalization) and illustrates the usefulness of mathematical ideas by presenting applications to computer science. Readers will find useful applications in algorithms, databases, semantics of programming languages, formal languages, theory of computation, and program verification. The material is treated in a straightforward, systematic, and rigorous manner. The volume is organized by mathematical area, making the material easily accessible to the upper-undergraduate students in mathematics as well as in computer science and each chapter contains a large number of exercises. The volume can be used as a textbook, but it will also be useful to researchers and professionals who want a thorough presentation of the mathematical tools they need in a single source. In addition, the book can be used effectively as supplementary reading material in computer science courses, particularly those courses which involve the semantics of programming languages, formal languages and automata, and logic programming.
Author: Samson Abramsky Publisher: Birkhäuser ISBN: 3319318039 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 286
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In this volume, different aspects of logics for dependence and independence are discussed, including both the logical and computational aspects of dependence logic, and also applications in a number of areas, such as statistics, social choice theory, databases, and computer security. The contributing authors represent leading experts in this relatively new field, each of whom was invited to write a chapter based on talks given at seminars held at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics in Wadern, Germany (in February 2013 and June 2015) and an Academy Colloquium at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (March 2014). Altogether, these chapters provide the most up-to-date look at this developing and highly interdisciplinary field and will be of interest to a broad group of logicians, mathematicians, statisticians, philosophers, and scientists. Topics covered include a comprehensive survey of many propositional, modal, and first-order variants of dependence logic; new results concerning expressive power of several variants of dependence logic with different sets of logical connectives and generalized dependence atoms; connections between inclusion logic and the least-fixed point logic; an overview of dependencies in databases by addressing the relationships between implication problems for fragments of statistical conditional independencies, embedded multivalued dependencies, and propositional logic; various Markovian models used to characterize dependencies and causality among variables in multivariate systems; applications of dependence logic in social choice theory; and an introduction to the theory of secret sharing, pointing out connections to dependence and independence logic.
Author: G. Shanker Rao Publisher: I. K. International Pvt Ltd ISBN: 8188237493 Category : Computer science Languages : en Pages : 450
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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science explains the fundamental concepts in mathematics. It can be used by the students in computer science as an introduction to the underlying ideas of mathematics for computer science. It explains topics like mathematical logic, predicates, relations, functions, combinatorics, algebraic structures and graph theory. It would be useful for the students of B.Tech, BCA, & MCA. Key Features: " Comprehensive discussion on logic, function, algebraic systems, recurrence relations and graph theory " Wide variety of exercises at all levels " Several worked out examples
Author: Giuseppe Primiero Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192572644 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 448
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Computing, today more than ever before, is a multi-faceted discipline which collates several methodologies, areas of interest, and approaches: mathematics, engineering, programming, and applications. Given its enormous impact on everyday life, it is essential that its debated origins are understood, and that its different foundations are explained. On the Foundations of Computing offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the birth and evolution of computing, and it presents some of the most important technical results and philosophical problems of the discipline, combining both historical and systematic analyses. The debates this text surveys are among the latest and most urgent ones: the crisis of foundations in mathematics and the birth of the decision problem, the nature of algorithms, the debates on computational artefacts and malfunctioning, and the analysis of computational experiments. By covering these topics, On the Foundations of Computing provides a much-needed resource to contextualize these foundational issues. For practitioners, researchers, and students alike, a historical and philosophical approach such as what this volume offers becomes essential to understand the past of the discipline and to figure out the challenges of its future.
Author: Dittmann, Christoph Publisher: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin ISBN: 3798328870 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 295
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The topics of this thesis are the modal μ-calculus and parity games. The modal μ-calculus is a common logic for model-checking in computer science. The model-checking problem of the modal μ-calculus is polynomial time equivalent to solving parity games, a 2-player game on labeled directed graphs. We present the first FPT algorithms (fixed-parameter tractable) for the model-checking problem of the modal μ-calculus on restricted classes of graphs, specifically on classes of bounded Kelly-width or bounded DAG-width. In this process we also prove a general decomposition theorem for the modal μ-calculus and define a useful notion of type for this logic. Then, assuming a class of parity games has a polynomial time algorithm solving it, we consider the problem of extending this algorithm to larger classes of parity games. In particular, we show that joining games, pasting games, or adding single vertices preserves polynomial-time solvability. It follows that parity games can be solved in polynomial time if their underlying undirected graph is a tournament, a complete bipartite graph, or a block graph. In the last chapter we present the first non-trivial formal proof about parity games. We explain a formal proof of positional determinacy of parity games in the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL. Die Themen dieser Dissertation sind der modale μ-Kalkül und Paritätsspiele. Der modale μ-Kalkül ist eine häufig eingesetzte Logik im Bereich des Model-Checkings in der Informatik. Das Model-Checking-Problem des modalen μ-Kalküls ist polynomialzeitäquivalent zum Lösen von Paritätsspielen, einem 2-Spielerspiel auf beschrifteten, gerichteten Graphen. Wir präsentieren die ersten FPT-Algorithmen (fixed-parameter tractable) für das Model-Checking-Problem des modalen μ-Kalküls auf Klassen von Graphen mit beschränkter Kelly-Weite oder beschränkter DAG-Weite. Für diesen Zweck beweisen wir einen allgemeineren Zerlegungssatz für den modalen μ-Kalkül und stellen eine nützliche Definition von Typen für diese Logik vor. Angenommen, eine Klasse von Paritätsspielen hat einen Polynomialzeit-Lösungs-Algorithmus, betrachten wir danach das Problem, diese Klassen zu erweitern auf eine Weise, sodass Polynomialzeit-Lösbarkeit erhalten bleibt. Wir zeigen, dass dies beim Join von Paritätsspielen, beim Pasting und beim Hinzufügen einzelner Knoten der Fall ist. Wir folgern daraus, dass das Lösen von Paritätsspielen in Polynomialzeit möglich ist, falls der unterliegende ungerichtete Graph ein Tournament, ein vollständiger bipartiter Graph oder ein Blockgraph ist. Im letzten Kapitel präsentieren wir den ersten nicht-trivialen formalen Beweis über Paritätsspiele. Wir stellen einen formalen Beweis für die positionale Determiniertheit von Paritätsspielen im Beweis-Assistenten Isabelle/HOL vor.
Author: Giuseppe F Italiano
Author: Giuseppe F. Italiano
Author: John Vince
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Author: Peter A. Fejer
Author: Samson Abramsky
Author: G. Shanker Rao
Author: Bhavanari Satyanarayana
Author: Giuseppe Primiero
Author: Dittmann, Christoph