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Descriptive Complexity | Neil Immerman | Taschenbuch | Texts in Computer Science | xvi | Englisch | 2012 | Humana | EAN 9781461268093 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.
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- Title
- Descriptive Complexity
- Author
- Neil Immerman
- Publisher
- Humana
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1461268095
- ISBN 13
- 9781461268093
- Item weight
- 441 grams
- Dimensions
- 235 x 155 x 16 mm
- Series
- Book 4 of 83: Texts in Computer Science
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A basic issue in computer science is the complexity of problems. Computational complexity measures how much time or memory is needed as a function of the input problem size. Descriptive complexity is concerned with problems which may be described in first-order logic. By virtue of the close relationship between logic and relational databses, it turns out that this subject has important applications to databases such as analysing the queries computable in polynomial time, analysing the parallel time needed to compute a query, and the analysis of nondeterministic classes. This book is written as a graduate text and so aims to provide a reasonably self-contained introduction to this subject. The author has provided numerous examples and exercises to further illustrate the ideas presented.
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