Instructor: Bow-Yaw Wang
This lecture covers requisite materials from logic and automata theory. Specific topics include: semantics of classical logic, compactness theorem, completeness theorem, Büchi automata, satisfiability, validity, and QBF.
Herbert B. Enderton. A Mathematical Introduction to Logic. Academic Press, 2000.
John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation. Addison Wesley.
Erich Grädel, Wolfgang Thomas, and Thomas Wilke. Automata, Logics, and Infinite Games: A Guide to Current Research. Springer, 2003.