10 Search Results for "Pratt-Hartmann, Ian"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.20
Text Indexing for Simple Regular Expressions

Authors: Hideo Bannai, Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz, Gad M. Landau, Gonzalo Navarro, Nicola Prezza, Teresa Anna Steiner, and Simon Rumle Tarnow

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 331, 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)

Abstract
We study the problem of indexing a text T[1..n] ∈ Σⁿ so that, later, given a query regular expression pattern R of size m = |R|, we can report all the occ substrings T[i..j] of T matching R. The problem is known to be hard for arbitrary patterns R, so in this paper, we consider the following two types of patterns. (1) Character-class Kleene-star patterns of the form P₁ D^* P₂, where P₁ and P₂ are strings and D = {c₁, …, c_k} ⊂ Σ is a character-class (shorthand for the regular expression (c₁ | c₂ | ⋯ | c_k)) and (2) String Kleene-star patterns of the form P₁ P^* P₂ where P, P₁ and P₂ are strings. In case (1), we describe an index of O(nlog^{1+ε}n) space (for any constant ε > 0) solving queries in time O(m + log n/log log n + occ) on constant-sized alphabets. We also describe a general solution for any alphabet size. This result is conditioned on the existence of an anchor: a character of P₁P₂ that does not belong to D. We justify this assumption by proving that no efficient indexing solution can exist if an anchor is not present unless the Set Disjointness Conjecture fails. In case (2), we describe an index of size O(n) answering queries in time O(m + (occ+1)log^{ε}n) on any alphabet size.
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Hideo Bannai, Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz, Gad M. Landau, Gonzalo Navarro, Nicola Prezza, Teresa Anna Steiner, and Simon Rumle Tarnow. Text Indexing for Simple Regular Expressions. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 20:1-20:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bannai_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2025.20,
  author =	{Bannai, Hideo and Bille, Philip and G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Landau, Gad M. and Navarro, Gonzalo and Prezza, Nicola and Steiner, Teresa Anna and Tarnow, Simon Rumle},
  title =	{{Text Indexing for Simple Regular Expressions}},
  booktitle =	{36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-369-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{331},
  editor =	{Bonizzoni, Paola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231143},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Text indexing, regular expressions, data structures}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.14
Minimal Generators in Optimal Time

Authors: Jonas Ellert, Paweł Gawrychowski, and Tatiana Starikovskaya

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 331, 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)

Abstract
A walk of length n on a string S of length m is a function f : {1, … , n} → {1, … , m} such that ∀ i ∈ {2, … , n} : |f(i) - f(i - 1)| ≤ 1. The walk generates the string T of length n defined by {∀ i ∈ {1, … , n} : T[i] = S[f(i)]}. Intuitively, this can be seen as walking n steps in S and outputting the encountered symbols, where in each step we either remain at the same position, or move one position to the left or to the right. The minimal generator of a string T is the shortest string S such that a walk on S generates T. Recently, it was shown that each string admits exactly one (up to reversal) minimal generator (Pratt-Hartmann, CPM 2024). However, no efficient algorithm for computing the minimal generator was known. We provide an optimal algorithm for this task, taking {O}(n) time for a string of length n over general unordered alphabet, i.e., accessing the string only by equality comparisons of symbols. The main challenge is to detect substrings of the form axbx̃axb and replace them with axb, where a,b are symbols and x is a string with reversal x̃. We solve this problem with a non-trivial adaptation of Manacher’s classic algorithm for computing maximal palindromic substrings (Manacher, J. ACM 1975). To obtain the final algorithm, we solve small subinstances of the problem in optimal time by adapting the "Four Russians" technique to strings over general unordered alphabet, which may be of independent interest.
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Jonas Ellert, Paweł Gawrychowski, and Tatiana Starikovskaya. Minimal Generators in Optimal Time. In 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 331, pp. 14:1-14:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{ellert_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2025.14,
  author =	{Ellert, Jonas and Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Starikovskaya, Tatiana},
  title =	{{Minimal Generators in Optimal Time}},
  booktitle =	{36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-369-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{331},
  editor =	{Bonizzoni, Paola and M\"{a}kinen, Veli},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231082},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2025.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: string algorithms, walking on words, minimal generator, palindromic substrings, general unordered alphabet, decision tree complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2025.9
On Homogeneous Models of Fluted Languages

Authors: Daumantas Kojelis

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 326, 33rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2025)

Abstract
We study the fluted fragment of first-order logic which is often viewed as a multi-variable non-guarded extension to various systems of description logics lacking role-inverses. In this paper we show that satisfiable fluted sentences (even under reasonable extensions) admit special kinds of "nice" models which we call globally/locally homogeneous. Homogeneous models allow us to simplify methods for analysing fluted logics with counting quantifiers and establish a novel result for the decidability of the (finite) satisfiability problem for the fluted fragment with periodic counting. More specifically, we will show that the (finite) satisfiability problem for the language is Tower-complete. If only two variable are used, computational complexity drops to NExpTime-completeness. We supplement our findings by showing that generalisations of fluted logics, such as the adjacent fragment, have finite and general satisfiability problems which are, respectively, Σ⁰₁- and Π⁰₁-complete. Additionally, satisfiability becomes Σ¹₁-complete if periodic counting quantifiers are permitted.
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Daumantas Kojelis. On Homogeneous Models of Fluted Languages. In 33rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 326, pp. 9:1-9:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{kojelis:LIPIcs.CSL.2025.9,
  author =	{Kojelis, Daumantas},
  title =	{{On Homogeneous Models of Fluted Languages}},
  booktitle =	{33rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2025)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-362-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{326},
  editor =	{Endrullis, J\"{o}rg and Schmitz, Sylvain},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2025.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-227669},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2025.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fluted Fragment, Fluted Logic, Fluted Fragment with Periodic Counting, Adjacent Fragment, Adjacent Fragment with Counting, Adjacent Fragment with Periodic Counting, Counting Quantifiers, Periodic Counting Quantifiers, Decidable Fragments of First-Order Logic}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.25
Walking on Words

Authors: Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 296, 35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024)

Abstract
Any function f with domain {1, … , m} and co-domain {1, … , n} induces a natural map from words of length n to those of length m: the ith letter of the output word (1 ≤ i ≤ m) is given by the f(i)th letter of the input word. We study this map in the case where f is a surjection satisfying the condition |f(i+1)-f(i)| ≤ 1 for 1 ≤ i < m. Intuitively, we think of f as describing a "walk" on a word u, visiting every position, and yielding a word w as the sequence of letters encountered en route. If such an f exists, we say that u generates w. Call a word primitive if it is not generated by any word shorter than itself. We show that every word has, up to reversal, a unique primitive generator. Observing that, if a word contains a non-trivial palindrome, it can generate the same word via essentially different walks, we obtain conditions under which, for a chosen pair of walks f and g, those walks yield the same word when applied to a given primitive word. Although the original impulse for studying primitive generators comes from their application to decision procedures in logic, we end, by way of further motivation, with an analysis of the primitive generators for certain word sequences defined via morphisms.
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Ian Pratt-Hartmann. Walking on Words. In 35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 296, pp. 25:1-25:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{pratthartmann:LIPIcs.CPM.2024.25,
  author =	{Pratt-Hartmann, Ian},
  title =	{{Walking on Words}},
  booktitle =	{35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-326-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{296},
  editor =	{Inenaga, Shunsuke and Puglisi, Simon J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201352},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2024.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: word combinatorics, palindrome, Rauzy morphism}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.111
On the Limits of Decision: the Adjacent Fragment of First-Order Logic

Authors: Bartosz Bednarczyk, Daumantas Kojelis, and Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 261, 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)

Abstract
We define the adjacent fragment AF of first-order logic, obtained by restricting the sequences of variables occurring as arguments in atomic formulas. The adjacent fragment generalizes (after a routine renaming) two-variable logic as well as the fluted fragment. We show that the adjacent fragment has the finite model property, and that its satisfiability problem is no harder than for the fluted fragment (and hence is Tower-complete). We further show that any relaxation of the adjacency condition on the allowed order of variables in argument sequences yields a logic whose satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems are undecidable. Finally, we study the effect of the adjacency requirement on the well-known guarded fragment (GF) of first-order logic. We show that the satisfiability problem for the guarded adjacent fragment (GA) remains 2ExpTime-hard, thus strengthening the known lower bound for GF.
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Bartosz Bednarczyk, Daumantas Kojelis, and Ian Pratt-Hartmann. On the Limits of Decision: the Adjacent Fragment of First-Order Logic. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 111:1-111:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{bednarczyk_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.111,
  author =	{Bednarczyk, Bartosz and Kojelis, Daumantas and Pratt-Hartmann, Ian},
  title =	{{On the Limits of Decision: the Adjacent Fragment of First-Order Logic}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{111:1--111:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.111},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-181632},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.111},
  annote =	{Keywords: decidability, satisfiability, variable-ordered logics, complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.32
Adding Transitivity and Counting to the Fluted Fragment

Authors: Ian Pratt-Hartmann and Lidia Tendera

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 252, 31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023)

Abstract
We study the impact of adding both counting quantifiers and a single transitive relation to the fluted fragment - a fragment of first-order logic originating in the work of W.V.O. Quine. The resulting formalism can be viewed as a multi-variable, non-guarded extension of certain systems of description logic featuring number restrictions and transitive roles, but lacking role-inverses. We establish the finite model property for our logic, and show that the satisfiability problem for its k-variable sub-fragment is in (k+1)-NExpTime. We also derive ExpSpace-hardness of the satisfiability problem for the two-variable, fluted fragment with one transitive relation (but without counting quantifiers), and prove that, when a second transitive relation is allowed, both the satisfiability and the finite satisfiability problems for the two-variable fluted fragment with counting quantifiers become undecidable.
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Ian Pratt-Hartmann and Lidia Tendera. Adding Transitivity and Counting to the Fluted Fragment. In 31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 252, pp. 32:1-32:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{pratthartmann_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2023.32,
  author =	{Pratt-Hartmann, Ian and Tendera, Lidia},
  title =	{{Adding Transitivity and Counting to the Fluted Fragment}},
  booktitle =	{31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-264-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{252},
  editor =	{Klin, Bartek and Pimentel, Elaine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174933},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: fluted logic, transitivity, counting, satisfiability, decidability, complexity}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.141
Fluted Logic with Counting

Authors: Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 198, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)

Abstract
The fluted fragment is a fragment of first-order logic in which the order of quantification of variables coincides with the order in which those variables appear as arguments of predicates. It is known that the fluted fragment possesses the finite model property. In this paper, we extend the fluted fragment by the addition of counting quantifiers. We show that the resulting logic retains the finite model property, and that the satisfiability problem for its (m+1)-variable sub-fragment is in m-NExpTime for all positive m. We also consider the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems for the extension of any of these fragments in which the fluting requirement applies only to sub-formulas having at least three free variables.
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Ian Pratt-Hartmann. Fluted Logic with Counting. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 141:1-141:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{pratthartmann:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.141,
  author =	{Pratt-Hartmann, Ian},
  title =	{{Fluted Logic with Counting}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)},
  pages =	{141:1--141:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-195-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{198},
  editor =	{Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.141},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142101},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.141},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fluted fragment, counting quantifiers, satisfiability, complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.18
The Fluted Fragment with Transitivity

Authors: Ian Pratt-Hartmann and Lidia Tendera

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 138, 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)

Abstract
We study the satisfiability problem for the fluted fragment extended with transitive relations. We show that the logic enjoys the finite model property when only one transitive relation is available. On the other hand we show that the satisfiability problem is undecidable already for the two-variable fragment of the logic in the presence of three transitive relations.
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Ian Pratt-Hartmann and Lidia Tendera. The Fluted Fragment with Transitivity. In 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 138, pp. 18:1-18:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{pratthartmann_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.18,
  author =	{Pratt-Hartmann, Ian and Tendera, Lidia},
  title =	{{The Fluted Fragment with Transitivity}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109626},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: First-Order logic, Decidability, Satisfiability, Transitivity, Complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2016.39
Quine's Fluted Fragment is Non-Elementary

Authors: Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Wieslaw Szwast, and Lidia Tendera

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 62, 25th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2016)

Abstract
We study the fluted fragment, a decidable fragment of first-order logic with an unbounded number of variables, originally identified by W.V. Quine. We show that the satisfiability problem for this fragment has non-elementary complexity, thus refuting an earlier published claim by W.C. Purdy that it is in NExpTime. More precisely, we consider, for all m greater than 1, the intersection of the fluted fragment and the m-variable fragment of first-order logic. We show that this sub-fragment forces (m/2)-tuply exponentially large models, and that its satisfiability problem is (m/2)-NExpTime-hard. We round off by using a corrected version of Purdy's construction to show that the m-variable fluted fragment has the m-tuply exponential model property, and that its satisfiability problem is in m-NExpTime.
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Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Wieslaw Szwast, and Lidia Tendera. Quine's Fluted Fragment is Non-Elementary. In 25th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 62, pp. 39:1-39:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{pratthartmann_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2016.39,
  author =	{Pratt-Hartmann, Ian and Szwast, Wieslaw and Tendera, Lidia},
  title =	{{Quine's Fluted Fragment is Non-Elementary}},
  booktitle =	{25th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2016)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-022-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{62},
  editor =	{Talbot, Jean-Marc and Regnier, Laurent},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2016.39},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-65791},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2016.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quine, fluted fragment, Purdy, non-elementary, satisfiability, decidability}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.05151.8
From TimeML to TPL

Authors: Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5151, Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events (2005)

Abstract
This paper describes a subset of the temporal mark-up language TimeML, and explains its relation to various formalisms found in the literature on interval temporal logic. The subset of TimeML we describe can be viewed as an interval temporal logic with a tractable satisfiability problem, but very limited expressive power. Most crucially, that logic does not permit quantification over events. The contribution of this paper is to point out that, by choosing an appropriate interval temporal logic, it is possible to introduce quantification into representations of event-structure without sacrificing decidability.
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Ian Pratt-Hartmann. From TimeML to TPL. In Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5151, pp. 1-11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2005)

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@InProceedings{pratthartmann:DagSemProc.05151.8,
  author =	{Pratt-Hartmann, Ian},
  title =	{{From TimeML to TPL}},
  booktitle =	{Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events},
  pages =	{1--11},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2005},
  volume =	{5151},
  editor =	{Graham Katz and James Pustejovsky and Frank Schilder},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05151.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-3128},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05151.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Information Extraction, Interval temporal logic}
}
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