Logical Foundations of Computer Science International Symposium, LFC

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science, LFCS 2009, held in Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA in January 2008. The volume presents 31 revised refereed papers carefully

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Sergei Artemov Anil Nerode (Eds.)

Logical Foundations of Computer Science International Symposium, LFCS 2009 Deerfield Beach, FL, USA, January 2009 Proceedings

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen

Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Sergei Artemov Anil Nerode (Eds.)

Logical Foundations of Computer Science International Symposium, LFCS 2009 Deerfield Beach, FL, USA, January 3-6, 2009 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Sergei Artemov CUNY Graduate Center, Computer Science 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA E-mail: [email protected] Anil Nerode Cornell University, Department of Mathematics 545 Malott Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): F.4, F.3, I.2.3, I.2.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science series provides a forum for the fast-growing body of work in the logical foundations of computer science, e.g., those areas of fundamental theoretical logic related to computer science. The LFCS series began with “Logic at Botik,” Pereslavl-Zalessky, 1989, w