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We study formal languages which are capable of fully expressing quantitative probabilistic reasoning and do-calculus reasoning for causal effects, from a computational complexity perspective. We focus on satisfiability problems whose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Benito van der Zander , Markus Bläser , Maciej Liśkiewicz

By using a selective filtration argument, we prove that the satisfiability problem of the unimodal logic of density is in $EXPTIME$. By using a tableau-like approach, we prove that the satisfiability problem of the bimodal logic of weak…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Philippe Balbiani , Olivier Gasquet

Modal logic is a paradigm for several useful and applicable formal systems in computer science. It generally retains the low complexity of classical propositional logic, but notable exceptions exist in the domains of description, temporal,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Davide Bresolin , Emilio Muñoz-Velasco , Guido Sciavicco

We investigate the complexity of the satisfiability problem for a modal logic expressing `knowing how' assertions, related to an agent's abilities to achieve a certain goal. We take one of the most standard semantics for this kind of logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Carlos Areces , Valentin Cassano , Raul Fervari , Pablo Castro , Andres Saravia

We show that the decision problem for the basic system of interpretability logic IL is PSPACE-complete. For this purpose we present an algorithm which uses polynomial space with respect to the complexity of a given formula. The existence of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Luka Mikec , Fedor Pakhomov , Mladen Vuković

We study multimodal logics over universally first-order definable classes of frames. We show that even for bimodal logics, there are universal Horn formulas that define set of frames such that the satisfiability problem is undecidable, even…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jakub Michaliszyn

Refinement Modal Logic (RML), which was recently introduced by Bozzelli et al., is an extension of classical modal logic which allows one to reason about a changing model. In this paper we study computational complexity questions related to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Antonis Achilleos , Michael Lampis

This paper studies the complexity of determining whether a formula in the modal logics characterizing the nested-simulation semantics is characteristic for some process, which is equivalent to determining whether the formula is satisfiable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Luca Aceto , Antonis Achilleos , Aggeliki Chalki , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

In this thesis (modal) dependence logic is investigated. It was introduced in 2007 by Jouko V\"a\"aan\"anen as an extension of first-order (resp. modal) logic by the dependence operator =(). For first-order (resp. propositional) variables…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Peter Lohmann

The model checking problem for various fragments of first-order logic has attracted much attention over the last two decades: in particular, for the primitive positive and the positive Horn fragments, which are better known as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-26 Florent Madelaine , Barnaby Martin

Exact tight bounds of the complexity of the satisfiability problem for dense modal logics is a difficult question, likely somewhere between $\PSPACE$ and $\EXPSPACE$ depending of the logic under question. For a class of them, called here…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Olivier Gasquet

In connection with machine arithmetic, we are interested in systems of constraints of the form x + k \leq y + k'. Over integers, the satisfiability problem for such systems is polynomial time. The problem becomes NP complete if we restrict…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-07 Nikolaj Bjørner , Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich , Madan Musuvathi

The satisfiability problem of hybrid logics with the downarrow binder is known to be undecidable. This initiated a research program on decidable and tractable fragments. In this paper, we investigate the effect of restricting the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Arne Meier , Martin Mundhenk , Thomas Schneider , Michael Thomas , Volker Weber , Felix Weiss

Although Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) is an influential logical framework for representing and reasoning about information change, little is known about the computational complexity of its associated decision problems. In fact, we only…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Guillaume Aucher , Francois Schwarzentruber

The standard reasoning problem, concept satisfiability, in the basic description logic ALC is PSPACE-complete, and it is EXPTIME-complete in the presence of unrestricted axioms. Several fragments of ALC, notably logics in the FL, EL, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Arne Meier , Thomas Schneider

A complete classification of the complexity of the local and global satisfiability problems for graded modal language over traditional classes of frames have already been established. By "traditional" classes of frames, we mean those…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Emanuel Kieroński , Piotr Witkowski

We examine the computational complexity of testing and finding small plans in probabilistic planning domains with both flat and propositional representations. The complexity of plan evaluation and existence varies with the plan type sought;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. L. Littman , J. Goldsmith , M. Mundhenk

Modal logics are widely used in multi-agent systems to reason about actions, abilities, norms, or epistemic states. Combined with description logic languages, they are also a powerful tool to formalise modal aspects of ontology-based…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Tiziano Dalmonte , Andrea Mazzullo , Ana Ozaki , Nicolas Troquard

We consider the satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of the first-order logic extended with modulo counting quantifiers and interpreted over finite words or trees. We prove a small-model property of this logic, which gives a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Witold Charatonik

Modal separability for modal fixpoint formulae is the problem to decide for two given modal fixpoint formulae $\varphi,\varphi'$ whether there is a modal formula $\psi$ that separates them, in the sense that $\varphi\models\psi$ and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jean Christoph Jung , Jędrzej Kołodziejski