Robin Hirsch's articles on Relation Algebra
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Relation
Algebras by Games . Volume 147 in Studies in Logic and
the Foundations of Mathematics series, published by Elsevier Science,
North-Holland, 2002. Reviews of the book.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Axiomatising various
classes of relation and cylindric algebras.
In Proc. Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation ,
Recife, July 1995. Also appears in Wollic95 Special Issue of the Journal
of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics Vol. 5, No. 2, pp 209
- 229, 1997.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Step by step - building representations
in algebraic logic.
In the Journal of Symbolic Logic , volume 62, number 1, pages 225
- 279, March 1997. Includes game-theoretic characterisation of representations
of relation algebras and a first-order characterisation of RRA.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Complete representations
in algebraic logic.
In the Journal of Symbolic Logic , volume 62, number 3, pages 816-847,
September 1997. Includes proof that the completely representable relation
algebras do not form an elementary class, and the same result for cylindric
algebras of any fixed dimension.
- R. Hirsch. Completely
representable relation algebras.
In the Bulletin of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (
IGPL ), pp77 -92, volume
3, number 1 ,
March 1995.
- R. Hirsch. Relation
algebras of intervals.
My thesis has three sections: Relation Algebra; Intervals; Applications in
Planning. Diagrams are missing.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Representability
is not decidable for finite relation algebras.
In the Transactions of the American Mathematical
Society (vol. 353 number 4, 2001, pages 1387-1401). Reduces the
tiling problem to the representation problem for finite relation algebras.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Connections between
cylindric algebras and relation algebras.
Chapter 14 in Relational Methods in Computer Science Applications,
(pages 239-246) which is published in volume 65 of Springer Physica Verlag
series Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing , 2001.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Relation algebras with n-dimensional
bases
A revised version appears in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
( vol. 101 pp 227-274, 2000, pub. Elsevier) but for copyright reasons
this version cannot be posted here.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Relation algebras from
cylindric algebras, I
In Annals of Pure and Applied Logic , vol. 112, pp 225-266, 2001.
- R. Hirsch and I. Hodkinson.
Relation algebras from
cylindric algebras, II
In Annals of Pure and Applied Logic , vol. 112, pp 267-297, 2001.
- M. Cristiani and
R. Hirsch. The complexity
of the constraint satisfaction problem for small relation algebras
PDF version. In Artificial
Intelligence Journal , volume 156, pages 177-196, 2004.