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The theory of finite term algebras provides a natural framework to describe the semantics of functional languages. The ability to efficiently reason about term algebras is essential to automate program analysis and verification for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Laura Kovacs , Simon Robillard , Andrei Voronkov

We study Two-Variable First-Order Logic, FO2, under semantic constraints that model hierarchically structured data. Our first logic extends FO2 with a linear order < and a chain of increasingly coarser equivalence relations E_1, E_2, ... .…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Oskar Fiuk , Emanuel Kieronski , Vincent Michielini

Natural language is hierarchically structured: smaller units (e.g., phrases) are nested within larger units (e.g., clauses). When a larger constituent ends, all of the smaller constituents that are nested within it must also be closed.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yikang Shen , Shawn Tan , Alessandro Sordoni , Aaron Courville

We introduce a generic extension of the popular branching-time logic CTL which refines the temporal until and release operators with formal languages. For instance, a language may determine the moments along a path that an until property…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Roland Axelsson , Matthew Hague , Stephan Kreutzer , Martin Lange , Markus Latte

This paper is concerned with Freeze LTL, a temporal logic on data words with registers. In a (multi-attributed) data word each position carries a letter from a finite alphabet and assigns a data value to a fixed, finite set of attributes.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Normann Decker , Daniel Thoma

It is well-known that every first-order property on words is expressible using at most three variables. The subclass of properties expressible with only two variables is also quite interesting and well-studied. We prove precise structure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Philipp Weis , Neil Immerman

In this paper, we propose a novel one-pass and tree-shaped tableau method for Timed Propositional Temporal Logic and for a bounded variant of its extension with past operators. Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL) is a real-time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Angelo Montanari , Mark Reynolds

We study Linear Temporal Logic Modulo Theories over Finite Traces (LTLfMT), a recently introduced extension of LTL over finite traces (LTLf) where propositions are replaced by first-order formulas and where first-order variables referring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante , Sarah Winkler

Intuitionistic grammar logics fuse constructive and multi-modal reasoning while permitting the use of converse modalities, serving as a generalization of standard intuitionistic modal logics. In this paper, we provide definitions of these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Tim S. Lyon

This paper explores the computational complexity of various natural one-variable fragments of first-order modal logics with the addition of counting quantifiers, over both constant and varying domains. The addition of counting quantifiers…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Christopher Hampson

The paper proposes and studies temporal logics for attributed words, that is, data words with a (finite) set of (attribute,value)-pairs at each position. It considers a basic logic which is a semantical fragment of the logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ahmet Kara , Thomas Schwentick , Thomas Zeume

Automata-logic connections are pillars of the theory of regular languages. Such connections are harder to obtain for transducers, but important results have been obtained recently for word-to-word transformations, showing that the three…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Luc Dartois , Emmanuel Filiot , Pierre-Alain Reynier , Jean-Marc Talbot

We study linear time model checking of collapsible higher-order pushdown systems (CPDS) of order 2 (manipulating stack of stacks) against MSO and PDL (propositional dynamic logic with converse and loop) enhanced with push/pop matching…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 C. Aiswarya , Paul Gastin , Prakash Saivasan

A class of interval-based temporal languages for uniformly representing and reasoning about actions and plans is presented. Actions are represented by describing what is true while the action itself is occurring, and plans are constructed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 A. Artale , E. Franconi

The celebrated Trakhtenbrot's theorem states that the set of finitely valid sentences of first-order logic is not computably enumerable. In this note we will extend this theorem by proving that the finite satisfiability problem of any…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Reijo Jaakkola

We study the finitary satisfiability problem for first order logic with two variables and two binary relations, corresponding to the induced successor relations of two finite linear orders. We show that the problem is decidable in NEXPTIME.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Diego Figueira

Verification of properties of first order logic with two variables FO2 has been investigated in a number of contexts. Over arbitrary structures it is known to be decidable with NEXPTIME complexity, with finitely satisfiable formulas having…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Saguy Benaim , Michael Benedikt , Rastislav Lenhardt , James Worrell

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

Automated reasoning is critical in domains such as law and governance, where verifying claims against facts in documents requires both accuracy and interpretability. Recent work adopts structured reasoning pipelines that translate natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Rizky Ramadhana Putra , Raihan Sultan Pasha Basuki , Yutong Cheng , Peng Gao

Reasoning in language models is difficult to evaluate: natural-language traces are unverifiable, symbolic datasets are too small, and most benchmarks conflate heuristics with inference. We present FOL-Traces, the first large-scale dataset…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Isabelle Lee , Sarah Liaw , Dani Yogatama