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Differentiable logics (DL) have recently been proposed as a method of training neural networks to satisfy logical specifications. A DL consists of a syntax in which specifications are stated and an interpretation function that translates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Natalia Ślusarz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Robert Stewart , Kathrin Stark

Differentiable logics are a family of quantitative logics originated in the machine learning literature. Because of their origin, differentiable logics often come equipped with analytic properties that guarantee that they are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Reynald Affeldt , Alessandro Bruni , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Natalia Ślusarz , Kathrin Stark

The approach described here allows to use the fuzzy Object Based Representation of imprecise and uncertain knowledge. This representation has a great practical interest due to the possibility to realize reasoning on classification with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Mohamed Nazih Omri

Recently, description logic LE-ALC was introduced for reasoning in the semantic environment of enriched formal contexts, and a polynomial-time tableaux algorithm was developed to check the consistency of knowledge bases with acyclic TBoxes.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yiwen Ding , Krishna Manoorkar

This paper offers an approach to extensible knowledge representation and reasoning for a family of formalisms known as Description Logics. The approach is based on the notion of adding new concept constructors, and includes a heuristic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 A. Borgida

Description logics are a powerful tool for describing ontological knowledge bases. That is, they give a factual account of the world in terms of individuals, concepts and relations. In the presence of uncertainty, such factual accounts are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Tim French , Tom Smoker

Fusions are a simple way of combining logics. For normal modal logics, fusions have been investigated in detail. In particular, it is known that, under certain conditions, decidability transfers from the component logics to their fusion.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 F. Baader , C. Lutz , H. Sturm , F. Wolter

In this paper syntactic objects---concept constructors called part restrictions which realize rational grading are considered in Description Logics (DLs). Being able to convey statements about a rational part of a set of successors, part…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Mitko Yanchev

Computer vision applications are omnipresent nowadays. The current paper explores the use of fuzzy logic in computer vision, stressing its role in handling uncertainty, noise, and imprecision in image data. Fuzzy logic is able to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Adilet Yerkin , Ayan Igali , Elnara Kadyrgali , Maksat Shagyrov , Malika Ziyada , Muragul Muratbekova , Pakizar Shamoi

The treatment of complex systems often requires the manipulation of vague, imprecise and uncertain information. Indeed, the human being is competent in handling of such systems in a natural way. Instead of thinking in mathematical terms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Baghdad Atmani , Sofia Benbelkacem , Mohamed Benamina

Justification Logics provide a framework for reasoning about justifications and evidences. Most of the accounts of justification logics are crisp in the sense that agent's justifications for a statement is convincing or is not. In this…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Meghdad Ghari

DL^N is a recent approach that extends description logics with defeasible reasoning capabilities. In this paper we provide an overview on DL^N, illustrating the underlying knowledge engineering requirements as well as the characteristic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Piero A. Bonatti , Iliana M. Petrova , Luigi Sauro

We extend description logics (DLs) with non-monotonic reasoning features. We start by investigating a notion of defeasible subsumption in the spirit of defeasible conditionals as studied by Kraus, Lehmann and Magidor in the propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Katarina Britz , Giovanni Casini , Thomas Meyer , Kody Moodley , Uli Sattler , Ivan Varzinczak

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP) has achieved remarkable progress. Nonetheless, significant challenges remain in handling texts with ambiguity, polysemy, or uncertainty. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ping Chen , Xiang Liu , Zhaoxiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Xingpeng Zhang , Huan Hu , Zipeng Wang , Kai Wang , Shuming Shi , Shiguo Lian

Fuzzy logic extends the classical truth values "true" and "false" with additional truth degrees in between. More specifically, fuzzy modal logics in this sense are given by a choice of fuzzy modalities and a fuzzy propositional base. It has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Stefan Gebhart , Lutz Schröder , Paul Wild

Defeasible argumentation frameworks have evolved to become a sound setting to formalize commonsense, qualitative reasoning from incomplete and potentially inconsistent knowledge. Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP) is a defeasible…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Carlos Chesnevar , Guillermo Simari , Teresa Alsinet , Lluis Godo

We propose a nonmonotonic Description Logic of typicality able to account for the phenomenon of concept combination of prototypical concepts. The proposed logic relies on the logic of typicality ALC TR, whose semantics is based on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Antonio Lieto , Gian Luca Pozzato

In this article, we describe the fuzzy logic, fuzzy language and algorithms as the basis of fuzzy reasoning, one of the intelligent information processing method, and then describe the general fuzzy reasoning method.

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Kwak Son Il

This paper develops a category-theoretic approach to uncertainty, informativeness and decision-making problems. It is based on appropriate first order fuzzy logic in which not only logical connectives but also quantifiers have fuzzy…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. V. Golubtsov , S. S. Moskaliuk

In the last years, the adoption of active systems has increased in many fields of computer science, such as databases, sensor networks, and software engineering. These systems are able to automatically react to events, by collecting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Achille Frigeri , Liliana Pasquale , Paola Spoletini