@InProceedings{place_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.77, author = {Place, Thomas and Zeitoun, Marc}, title = {{The Covering Problem: A Unified Approach for Investigating the Expressive Power of Logics}}, booktitle = {41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)}, pages = {77:1--77:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-016-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {58}, editor = {Faliszewski, Piotr and Muscholl, Anca and Niedermeier, Rolf}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.77}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-64857}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.77}, annote = {Keywords: membership problem, separation problem, covering problem, regular languages, logics, decidable characterizations} }