Polyteam semantics

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Publication:1709702

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-72056-2_12zbMATH Open1505.03070arXiv1704.02158OpenAlexW4251248223MaRDI QIDQ1709702FDOQ1709702


Authors: Miika Hannula, Juha Kontinen, Jonni Virtema Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 April 2018

Abstract: Team semantics is the mathematical framework of modern logics of dependence and independence in which formulae are interpreted by sets of assignments (teams) instead of single assignments as in first-order logic. In order to deepen the fruitful interplay between team semantics and database dependency theory, we define "Polyteam Semantics" in which formulae are evaluated over a family of teams. We begin by defining a novel polyteam variant of dependence atoms and give a finite axiomatisation for the associated implication problem. We relate polyteam semantics to team semantics and investigate in which cases logics over the former can be simulated by logics over the latter. We also characterise the expressive power of poly-dependence logic by properties of polyteams that are downwards closed and definable in existential second-order logic (ESO). The analogous result is shown to hold for poly-independence logic and all ESO-definable properties. We also relate poly-inclusion logic to greatest fixed point logic.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02158




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