Ian Hodkinson: Research papers

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Here are some papers of mine or of which I am a co-author.  Clicking on a paper gives more information and the opportunity to download it. Files are generally postscript, compressed using gzip. You will need to decompress them, using (in Unix)
 


gunzip FileName.ps.gz


 


If you have any trouble printing (or indeed accessing) them, please email me at imh@doc.ic.ac.uk


A. Gzip'd postscript files on algebraic logic etc

  1. Axiomatising various classes of relation and cylindric algebras [survey]
  2. Games in algebraic logic

  3. A very gentle introduction to algebraic logic and the game-theoretic approach to the representability problem.  Presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium, December 1997, organised by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.
  4. Step by step --- building representations in algebraic logic
  5. Complete representations in algebraic logic
  6. Atom structures
  7. Mosaics and step-by-step -- Remarks on A modal logic of relations by Venema & Marx
  8. Finite algebras of relations are representable on finite sets
  9. Representability is not decidable for finite relation algebras
  10. Relation algebras with n-dimensional relational bases
  11. Nonfinite axiomatisabiliy of reducts of relation and cylindric algebras
  12. Connections between cylindric algebras and relation algebras
    1. 6-page survey by Hirsch-Hodkinson
    2. Fuller work on relation algebras from cylindric algebras
See also a description of a current EPSRC-sponsored project on
Relation Algebras of Action and Indeterminacy. This has some links that may be of use.


B. Gzip'd postscript files on temporal logic and finite variable fragments etc

  1. On Gabbay's temporal fixed point operator
  2. Finite variable logics
  3. The k-variable property is stronger than H-dimension k
  4. Logics and Complexity in Finite Model Theory

C. Other publications (not available on the net)