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Modal logics are widely used in computer science. The complexity of modal satisfiability problems has been investigated since the 1970s, usually proving results on a case-by-case basis. We prove a very general classification for a wide…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-14 Edith Hemaspaandra , Henning Schnoor

We study elementary modal logics, i.e. modal logic considered over first-order definable classes of frames. The classical semantics of modal logic allows infinite structures, but often practical applications require to restrict our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop , Piotr Witkowski

We show undecidability of the satisfiability problem of what is arguably the simplest non-sub-Boolean modal logic with an implicit notion of binding. This work enriches the series of existing results of undecidability of modal logics with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Guillaume Hoffmann

While modal extensions of decidable fragments of first-order logic are usually undecidable, their monodic counterparts, in which formulas in the scope of modal operators have at most one free variable, are typically decidable. This only…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alessandro Artale , Christopher Hampson , Roman Kontchakov , Andrea Mazzullo , Frank Wolter

Term modal logics (TML) are modal logics with unboundedly many modalities, with quantification over modal indices, so that we can have formulas of the form $\exists y. \forall x. (\Box_x P(x,y) \supset\Diamond_y P(y,x))$. Like First order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Anantha Padmanabha , R. Ramanujam

We show that the unification problem `is there a substitution instance of a given formula that is provable in a given logic?' is undecidable for basic modal logics K and K4 extended with the universal modality. It follows that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

This paper is about the computability of the modal definability problem in classes of frames determined by Euclidean modal logics. We characterize those Euclidean modal logics such that the classes of frames they determine give rise to an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Philippe Balbiani , Tinko Tinchev

Quantified modal logic provides a natural logical language for reasoning about modal attitudes even while retaining the richness of quantification for referring to predicates over domains. But then most fragments of the logic are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Anantha Padmanabha , R. Ramanujam , Yanjing Wang

We introduce a novel decidable fragment of first-order logic. The fragment is one-dimensional in the sense that quantification is limited to applications of blocks of existential (universal) quantifiers such that at most one variable…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Lauri Hella , Antti Kuusisto

Graded modal logic is the formal language obtained from ordinary (propositional) modal logic by endowing its modal operators with cardinality constraints. Under the familiar possible-worlds semantics, these augmented modal operators receive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yevgeny Kazakov , Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Propositional term modal logic is interpreted over Kripke structures with unboundedly many accessibility relations and hence the syntax admits variables indexing modalities and quantification over them. This logic is undecidable, and we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Anantha Padmanabha , R Ramanujam

During the last decades, a lot of effort was put into identifying decidable fragments of first-order logic. Such efforts gave birth, among the others, to the two-variable fragment and the guarded fragment, depending on the type of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Maja Orłowska , Anna Pacanowska , Tony Tan

Nonmonotonic logics are usually characterized by the presence of some notion of 'conditional' that fails monotonicity. Research on nonmonotonic logics is therefore largely concerned with the defeasibility of argument forms and the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Katarina Britz , Ivan Varzinczak

Relation-changing modal logics are extensions of the basic modal logic that allow changes to the accessibility relation of a model during the evaluation of a formula. In particular, they are equipped with dynamic modalities that are able to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Carlos Areces , Raul Fervari , Guillaume Hoffmann , Mauricio Martel

Machine learning researchers and practitioners steadily enlarge the multitude of successful learning models. They achieve this through in-depth theoretical analyses and experiential heuristics. However, there is no known general-purpose…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Matthias C. Caro

The satisfiability problem for First-order Modal Logic (\FOML) is undecidable even for simple fragments like having only unary predicates, two variables etc. Recently a new way to identify decidable fragments of \FOML has been introduced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Varad Joshi , Anantha Padmanabha

The study of word equations (or the existential theory of equations over free monoids) is a central topic in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The problem of deciding whether a given word equation has a solution was shown to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Joel Day , Vijay Ganesh , Paul He , Florin Manea , Dirk Nowotka

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

The decidability of a logical system refers to the existence of an algorithm that can determine whether any given formula in that system is a theorem. In this paper, Harrop's lemma is used to prove the decidability of quantum modal logic.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kenji Tokuo

The plan existence problem asks, given a goal in the form of a formula in modal logic, an initial epistemic state (a pointed Kripke model), and a set of epistemic actions, whether there exists a sequence of actions that can be applied to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Antonis Achilleos
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