On the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science

The work

AuthorsJoseph Y. Halpern; Robert Harper; Neil Immerman; Phokion G. Kolaitis; Moshe Y. Vardi; Victor Vianu
Editors
Typearticle
Year2001
Citekeyhalpern2001unusual

Where it appeared

Published inBulletin of Symbolic Logic
Volume7
Issue2
Pages213--236

Settled

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@article{halpern2001unusual,
  title        = {On the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science},
  author       = {Joseph Y. Halpern and Robert Harper and Neil Immerman and Phokion G. Kolaitis and Moshe Y. Vardi and Victor Vianu},
  year         = {2001},
  journal      = {Bulletin of Symbolic Logic},
  volume       = {7},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {213--236},
}

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