Publications and others:
- Query evaluation on compressed instances (pdf)
with Martin Grohe and Christoph Koch
extended abstract accepted for publication at the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science 2003
- The complexity of first-order and monadic
second-order logic revisited (pdf)
with Martin Grohe
Preprint, extended abstract appeared at the IEEE Symposium on
Logic in Computer Science 2002
Full version invited to Anals of Pure and Applied Logic
- Generalized model-checking
over locally tree-decomposable classes (pdf)
Extended abstract appeared in Proceedings of the
19th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science 2002, Nice, France
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2285, Springer Verlag, 2001
Journal Version invited to Theory of Computing Systems
- Easy Instances for Model-Checking
Ph.D. Thesis, June 2001 pdf
- Query evaluation via tree-decompositions
with Jörg Flum and Martin Grohe
Appeared in the Journal of the ACM. Volume 49, Issue 6, 2002
Conference version appeared in Proceedings of the
8th International Conference on Database Theory 2001
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1973, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
- Deciding first-order properties of tree-decomposable structures
with Martin Grohe
Appeared in the Journal of the ACM. Volume 48,Issue 6, 2001
Conference version appeared in Proceedings of the
26th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming 2000.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1644, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
- A survey on Oracles and Quantifiers
with J. Makowsky und A. Pnueli (in preparation)
- Oracles and Quantifiers
(not published)