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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 the computational complexity of admissibility of inference rules in infinite-valued {\L}ukasiewicz propositional logic (\L). It was shown in [13] that admissibility in {\L} is checkable in PSPACE. We establish that this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Emil Jeřábek

Graded path modalities count the number of paths satisfying a property, and generalize the existential (E) and universal (A) path modalities of CTL*. The resulting logic is called GCTL*. We settle the complexity of satisfiability of GCTL*,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Benjamin Aminof , Aniello Murano , Sasha Rubin

The Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC) problem is a prominent NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem of great importance in both theory and application. Local search has proved successful for this problem. However, there are two main drawbacks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Shaowei Cai , Kaile Su , Chuan Luo , Abdul Sattar

We propose a strong physical unclonable function (PUF) provably secure against machine learning (ML) attacks with both classical and quantum computers. Its security is derived from cryptographic hardness of learning decryption functions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ye Wang , Xiaodan Xi , Michael Orshansky

Temporal Equilibrium Logic (TEL) is a promising framework that extends the knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities of Answer Set Programming with temporal operators in the style of LTL. To our knowledge it is the first…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Laura Bozzelli , David Pearce

The maximum clique (MC) problem is a challenging graph mining problem which, due to its NP-hard nature, can take a substantial amount of execution time. The MC problem is dominated by set intersection operations similar to Maximal Clique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hans Vandierendonck

In this paper, we consider a problem which we call LTL$_f$ model checking on paths: given a DFA $\mathcal{A}$ and a formula $\phi$ in LTL on finite traces, does there exist a word $w$ such that every path starting in a state of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Andrew Ryzhikov , Petra Wolf

This paper is devoted to the complexity of the Boolean satisfiability problem. We consider a version of this problem, where the Boolean formula is specified in the conjunctive normal form. We prove an unexpected result that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Grigoriy V. Bokov

It is well known that computing a minimum DFA consistent with a given set of positive and negative examples is NP-hard. Previous work has identified conditions on the input sample under which the problem becomes tractable or remains hard.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Radu Cosmin Dumitru , Ryo Yoshinaka , Ayumi Shinohara

We report progress on the \NL vs \UL problem. [-] We show unconditionally that the complexity class $\ReachFewL\subseteq\UL$. This improves on the earlier known upper bound $\ReachFewL \subseteq \FewL$. [-] We investigate the complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Aduri Pavan , Raghunath Tewari , N. V. Vinodchandran

The Partitioning Min-Max Weighted Matching (PMMWM) problem is an NP-hard problem that combines the problem of partitioning a group of vertices of a bipartite graph into disjoint subsets with limited size and the classical Min-Max Weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yuxuan Wang , Jinyao Xie , Jiongzhi Zheng , Kun He

This paper looks at two problems, minimum constrained input selection and minimum cost constrained input selection for state space structured systems. The input matrix is constrained in the sense that the set of states that each input can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Shana Moothedath , Prasanna Chaporkar , Madhu N. Belur

We introduce PHFL, a probabilistic extension of higher-order fixpoint logic, which can also be regarded as a higher-order extension of probabilistic temporal logics such as PCTL and the $\mu^p$-calculus. We show that PHFL is strictly more…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yo Mitani , Naoki Kobayashi , Takeshi Tsukada

ExtractingMUCs(MinimalUnsatisfiableCores)fromanunsatisfiable constraint network is a useful process when causes of unsatisfiability must be understood so that the network can be re-engineered and relaxed to become sat- isfiable. Despite bad…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Éric Grégoire , Jean-Marie Lagniez , Bertrand Mazure

This paper introduces a novel technique to decide the satisfiability of formulae written in the language of Linear Temporal Logic with Both future and past operators and atomic formulae belonging to constraint system D (CLTLB(D) for short).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Marcello M. Bersani , Achille Frigeri , Angelo Morzenti , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

Conflict-Based Search (CBS) algorithm for the multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem is that it is incomplete for problems which have no solution; if no mitigating procedure is run in parallel, CBS will run forever when given an unsolvable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Thayne T Walker , Nathan R Sturtevant

Optimization is a key task in a number of applications. When the set of feasible solutions under consideration is of combinatorial nature and described in an implicit way as a set of constraints, optimization is typically NP-hard.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-27 Daniel Le Berre , Emmanuel Lonca , Pierre Marquis

The fully enriched μ-calculus is the extension of the propositional μ-calculus with inverse programs, graded modalities, and nominals. While satisfiability in several expressive fragments of the fully enriched μ-calculus is known…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Piero A. Bonatti , Carsten Lutz , Aniello Murano , Moshe Y. Vardi

Hyperproperties generalize trace properties by expressing relations between multiple computations. Hyperpropertes include policies from information-flow security, like observational determinism or non-interference, and many other system…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bernd Finkbeiner