Descriptive Complexity

by Neil Immerman

By virtue of the close relationship between logic and relational databases, it turns out that complexity has important applications to databases such as analyzing the parallel time needed to compute a query, and the analysis of nondeterministic classes. This book is a relatively self-contained introduction to the subject, which includes the necessary background material, as well as numerous examples and exercises.

Genres: Mathematics, Logic, Computer Science, Computers

284 pages, Hardcover

First published November 20, 1998