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We study logic for reasoning with if-then formulas describing dependencies between attributes of objects which are observed in consecutive points in time. We introduce semantic entailment of the formulas, show its fixed-point…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jan Triska , Vilem Vychodil

This paper introduces time window temporal logic (TWTL), a rich expressivity language for describing various time bounded specifications. In particular, the syntax and semantics of TWTL enable the compact representation of serial tasks,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Cristian-Ioan Vasile , Derya Aksaray , Calin Belta

Formalisms based on temporal logics interpreted over finite strict linear orders, known in the literature as finite traces, have been used for temporal specification in automated planning, process modelling, (runtime) verification and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Alessandro Artale , Andrea Mazzullo , Ana Ozaki

This paper presents an extension of temporal epistemic logic with operators that quantify over agent strategies. Unlike previous work on alternating temporal epistemic logic, the semantics works with systems whose states explicitly encode…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Xiaowei Huang , Ron van der Meyden

A thorough investigation of the foundations of paraconsistent logics. Relations between logical principles are formally studied, a novel notion of consistency is introduced, the logics of formal inconsistency, and the subclasses of…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. A. Carnielli , J. Marcos

This chapter presents probability logic as a rationality framework for human reasoning under uncertainty. Selected formal-normative aspects of probability logic are discussed in the light of experimental evidence. Specifically, probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Niki Pfeifer

We combine linear temporal logic (with both past and future modalities) with a deontic version of justification logic to provide a framework for reasoning about time and epistemic and normative reasons. In addition to temporal modalities,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Meghdad Ghari

Fuzziness and randomicity widespread exist in natural science, engineering, technology and social science. The purpose of this paper is to present a new logic - uncertain propositional logic which can deal with both fuzziness by taking…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Maokang Luo , Wei He

Computational analysis of time-course data with an underlying causal structure is needed in a variety of domains, including neural spike trains, stock price movements, and gene expression levels. However, it can be challenging to determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Samantha Kleinberg , Bud Mishra

In this paper, we analyze timed systems with data structures, using a rich interplay of logic and properties of graphs. We start by describing behaviors of timed systems using graphs with timing constraints. Such a graph is called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-30 S. Akshay , Paul Gastin , Vincent Juge , Shankara Narayanan Krishna

This article describes recent work on the topic of specifying properties of transition systems. By giving a suitably abstract description of transition systems as coalgebras, it is possible to derive logics for capturing properties of these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexander Kurz

The language of linear temporal logic can be interpreted over the class of dynamic topological systems, giving rise to the intuitionistic temporal logic ${{\sf ITL}^{\sf c}}_{\Diamond,\forall}$, recently shown to be decidable by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Joseph Boudou , Martín Diéguez , David Fernández-Duque

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

Time plays a critical role in how information is generated, retrieved, and interpreted. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of Temporal Question Answering (TQA), a research area that focuses on answering questions involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bhawna Piryani , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Jamshid Mozafari , Avishek Anand , Adam Jatowt

The paper is focused on temporal logics for the description of the behaviour of real-time pushdown reactive systems. The paper is motivated to bridge tractable logics specialized for expressing separately dense-time real-time properties and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Laura Bozzelli , Aniello Murano , Adriano Peron

We study several extensions of linear-time and computation-tree temporal logics with quantifiers that allow for counting how often certain properties hold. For most of these extensions, the model-checking problem is undecidable, but we show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Normann Decker , Peter Habermehl , Martin Leucker , Arnaud Sangnier , Daniel Thoma

Metric Temporal Logic, $\mtlfull$ is amongst the most studied real-time logics. It exhibits considerable diversity in expressiveness and decidability properties based on the permitted set of modalities and the nature of time interval…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Khushraj Madnani , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Paritosh K. Pandya

We investigate a family of rule-based logics. The focus is on very expressive languages. We provide a range of characterization results for the expressive powers of the logics and relate them with corresponding game systems.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Antti Kuusisto

Temporal logic rules are often used in control and robotics to provide structured, human-interpretable descriptions of trajectory data. These rules have numerous applications including safety validation using formal methods, constraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Emi Soroka , Rohan Sinha , Sanjay Lall

Humans continuously make new discoveries, and understanding temporal sequence of events leading to these breakthroughs is essential for advancing science and society. This ability to reason over time allows us to identify future steps and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Abhilash Shankarampeta , Harsh Mahajan , Tushar Kataria , Dan Roth , Vivek Gupta