Expressibility of higher-order logics on relational databases : proper hierarchies : a dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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2008
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Massey University
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We investigate the expressive power of different fragments of higher-order logics
over finite relational structures (or equivalently, relational databases) with special emphasis in higher-order logics of order greater than or equal three. Our main results concern the study of the effect on the expressive power of higher-order logics, of simultaneously bounding the arity of the higher-order variables and the alternation
of quantifiers.
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Finite model theory, Databases, Higher order logics, Expressibility, Quantifier alternation