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Professor in Mathematics
Logic and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science


Logic Group
Mathematics Department (FB 4)
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Schlossgartenstrasse 7
D-64289 Darmstadt
Germany





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mail: otto [at] mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de


formerly
Reader in Theoretical Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales Swansea, UK


Research Interests:


Teaching

For previous years see
here

2009/10

2008/09


Selected Publications and Preprints:

See also (full) list of publications


Model Theory of Modal Logic, with V. Goranko.
Final version (May 2006) of chapter (approx. 80 pages) for:
Handbook of Modal Logic, P. Blackburn, J. van Benthem, F. Wolter (eds), Elsevier, 2006.

Model Theoretic Methods For Fragments of FO And Special Classes Of (Finite) Structures,
Draft of survey on the basis of a tutorial given at the 2006 Durham workshop on Finite and Algorithmic Model Theory (Isaac Newton Institute, Logic and Algorithms, 2006), 58 pages, revised 2008.


Highly acyclic groups, hypergraph covers and the guarded fragment,
preprint, 2010, 25 pages. Abstract

Avoiding incidental homomorphisms into guarded covers,
technical report, TUD online preprint no.2600, 2009, 10 pages. Abstract

A Lindström characterisation of the guarded fragment and of modal logic with a global modality, with Robert Piro.
in: Advances in Modal Logic 7, C. Areces, R. Goldblatt (eds), 2008, pp. 273-288. Abstract

Modal characterisation theorems over special classes of frames, with A. Dawar.
Extended journal version LICS 2005 paper, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, volume 161, 2009, pp. 1-42. Abstract

Boundedness of monadic second-order formulae over finite words, with A. Blumensath and M. Weyer.
ICALP'09, LNCS, volume 5556, 2009, pp. 67-78. Abstract

Boundedness of monadic FO over acyclic structures, with S. Kreutzer and N. Schweikardt.
ICALP'07, LNCS, volume 4596, 2007, pp. 571 - 582. Abstract

The boundedness problem for monadic universal FO,
Proceedings of 21st IEEE Symp. on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2006, pp. 37-46. Abstract

Small substructures and decidability issues for first-order logic with two variables , with E. Kieronski.
Draft of journal version of LICS'05 paper, 30 pages. Abstract

Modal and guarded characterisation theorems over finite transition systems,
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, volume 130, 2004, pp. 173-205. Abstract

Elementary proof of the van Benthem - Rosen characterisation theorem,
technical report, TUD online preprint no.2342, 2004, 11 pages. Abstract

Bisimulation invariance and finite structures,
Lecture Notes in Logic, Logic Colloquium 02, 2006, pp. 276-298. Abstract

Finite conformal hypergraph covers and Gaifman cliques in finite structures, with I. Hodkinson.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, volume 9, 2003, pp. 387-405. Abstract

Back and forth between guarded and modal logics, with E. Grädel and C. Hirsch.
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, volume 3, 2002, pp. 418-463. Abstract

Two Variable First-Order Logic over Ordered Domains.
Journal of Symbolic Logic, volume 66, 2001, pp. 685-702. Abstract

Epsilon-Logic is More Expressive Than First-Order Logic over Finite Structures.
Journal of Symbolic Logic, volume 65, 2000, pp. 1749-1757. Abstract

An Interpolation Theorem.
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, volume 6, 2000, pp. 447-462. Abstract

On Logics with Two Variables, with E. Grädel.
Theoretical Computer Science, 224, 1999, pp. 73-113. Abstract

Bisimulation-Invariant Ptime and Higher-Dimensional mu-Calculus.
Theoretical Computer Science, 224, 1999, pp. 237-266. Abstract

Beth Definability for the Guarded Fragment, with E. Hoogland and M. Marx.
LPAR'99, LNAI, vol. 1705, Springer 1999, pp. 273-285. Abstract
Also in: JFAK, Essays Dedicated to Johan van Benthem on the Occasion of his 50th Birthday.

Eliminating Recursion in the mu-Calculus.
in Proceedings of STACS'99, LNCS 1563, Springer 1999, pp. 531-540. Abstract

On the Boundedness Problem for Two-Variable First-Order Logic, with P. Kolaitis.
LICS'98. Abstract

Undecidability Results on Two-Variable Logics, with E. Grädel and E. Rosen.
Archive for Mathematical Logic, 38, 1999, pp. 313-345. Abstract



Selected Talks:

See also (fuller) list of talks


Methods For Deciding Boundedness of Least Fixed Points
Fachgruppentreffen Logik in der Informatik, Frankfurt 2009;
and (edited) Computer Laboratory, Oxford 2009.

Bisimulation Invariance over Transitive Frames
IMCS workshop on Logic and Algorithms, Edinburgh, July 2008.

Games and Fragments of FO over Special Classes of (Finite) Structures
mini-course at MATHLOGAPS summer school
, Aussois, France, June 2007.

Boundedness in Universal First-Order Logic
LICS 2006, Seattle.

Model Theoretic Methods for Special Classes of (Finite) Structures
4 lecture tutorial, Newton Institute Programme on Logic and Algorithms 2006,
Workshop on Finite and Algorithmic Model Theory , Durham, 2006.

Logik und Spiele
Mathematisches Kolloquium TU Darmstadt, February 2004 (in German).

Bisimulation Invariance and Instances of Expressive Completeness
Invited talk, 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, LMPS, Oviedo, 2003.

Extensions of Partial Automorphisms; Hypergraphs and Guarded Logics
Invited talk, Euresco Conference on Symmetries, Ordered Structures, Model Theory and Combinatorics, Hattingen, 2003.

Invariances, Games, Models, and (Finite) Model Theory in Tractable Fragments of FO
Invited talk, Colloquium Logicum, Muenster, August 02 (in conjunction with the ASL European Summer Meeting).

For earlier versions presented at Darmstadt and Leeds (December 01), Edinburgh and London (May 02), and Amsterdam (June 02) see edited slides Bisimulation, Unravellings, and Covers.

Logics - Invariances - Games : domain specific algorithmic model theory
Survey talk, held at the University of Edinburgh, April 01.



photographs by U. Berger, 2001



and H. Otto, 2009


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