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We propose a new method for mining frequent patterns in a language that combines both Semantic Web ontologies and rules. In particular we consider the setting of using a language that combines description logics with DL-safe rules. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Joanna Jozefowska , Agnieszka Lawrynowicz , Tomasz Lukaszewski

Epistemic planning can be used for decision making in multi-agent situations with distributed knowledge and capabilities. Recently, Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) has been shown to provide a very natural and expressive framework for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Thorsten Engesser , Thomas Bolander , Robert Mattmüller , Bernhard Nebel

Cognitive systems generally require a human to translate a problem definition into some specification that the cognitive system can use to attempt to solve the problem or perform the task. In this paper, we illustrate that large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Robert E. Wray , James R. Kirk , John E. Laird

Formal methods are widely recognized as a powerful engineering method for the specification, simulation, development, and verification of distributed interactive systems. However, most formal methods rely on a two-valued logic, and are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Vasileios Koutsoumpas

We propose an approach to formally specifying the behavioral properties of systems that rely on a perception model for interactions with the physical world. The key idea is to introduce embeddings -- mathematical representations of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Parv Kapoor , Abigail Hammer , Ashish Kapoor , Karen Leung , Eunsuk Kang

Semantic mapping is the incremental process of "mapping" relevant information of the world (i.e., spatial information, temporal events, agents and actions) to a formal description supported by a reasoning engine. Current research focuses on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Roberto Capobianco , Jacopo Serafin , Johann Dichtl , Giorgio Grisetti , Luca Iocchi , Daniele Nardi

In recent years, the development of large pretrained language models, such as BERT and GPT, significantly improved information extraction systems on various tasks, including relation classification. State-of-the-art systems are highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Lars Klöser , Andre Büsgen , Philipp Kohl , Bodo Kraft , Albert Zündorf

Checking the compliance of software against laws, regulations and contracts is increasingly important and costly as the embedding of software into societal practices is becoming more pervasive. Moreover, the digitalised services provided by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-25 L. Thomas van Binsbergen , Christopher A. Esterhuyse , Tim Müller

As the practical use of answer set programming (ASP) has grown with the development of efficient solvers, we expect a growing interest in extensions of ASP as their semantics stabilize and solvers supporting them mature. Epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Patrick Thor Kahl , Anthony P. Leclerc , Tran Cao Son

An important learning objective for computer science students is to learn how to formalize descriptions of real world scenarios in order to subsequently solve real world challenges using methods and algorithms from formal foundations of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Tristan Kneisel , Fabian Vehlken , Thomas Zeume

Type soundness is an important property of modern programming languages. In this paper we explore the idea that "well-typed languages are sound": the idea that the appropriate typing discipline over language specifications guarantees that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Matteo Cimini , Dale Miller , Jeremy G. Siek

This paper addresses a significant gap in explainable AI: the necessity of interpreting epistemic uncertainty in model explanations. Although current methods mainly focus on explaining predictions, with some including uncertainty, they fail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Helena Löfström , Tuwe Löfström , Johan Hallberg Szabadvary

This paper is a mathematical investigation on Epstein semantics. One of the main tools of the present paper is the model-theoretic S-set construction introduced in (Krawczyk 2022). We use it to prove several results: 1) that each Epstein…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Krzysztof A. Krawczyk

This work introduces the novel concept of kind refinement, which we develop in the context of an explicitly polymorphic ML-like language with type-level computation. Just as type refinements embed rich specifications by means of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Luís Caires , Bernardo Toninho

Languages vary widely in how meanings map to word forms. These mappings have been found to support efficient communication; however, this theory does not account for systematic relations within word forms. We examine how a restricted set of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Doreen Osmelak , Yang Xu , Michael Hahn , Kate McCurdy

In this paper we introduce Epistemic Strategy Logic (ESL), an extension of Strategy Logic with modal operators for individual knowledge. This enhanced framework allows us to represent explicitly and to reason about the knowledge agents have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Francesco Belardinelli

Epistemic uncertainty arises in lack of complete knowledge about the state of a system. There are multiple mathematical frameworks for measuring such uncertainty quantitatively, often referred to as imprecise probability theories. Inspired…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Torgeir Aambø

The Abella interactive theorem prover has proven to be an effective vehicle for reasoning about relational specifications. However, the system has a limitation that arises from the fact that it is based on a simply typed logic:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Gopalan Nadathur , Yuting Wang

Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible-worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an "agreement"…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Hans Halvorson , JB Manchak , James Owen Weatherall

Metric Elicitation (ME) is a framework for eliciting classification metrics that better align with implicit user preferences based on the task and context. The existing ME strategy so far is based on the assumption that users can most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-08 Safinah Ali , Sohini Upadhyay , Gaurush Hiranandani , Elena L. Glassman , Oluwasanmi Koyejo