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In a seminal paper from 1985, Sistla and Clarke showed that the model-checking problem for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is either NP-complete or PSPACE-complete, depending on the set of temporal operators used. If, in contrast, the set of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Michael Bauland , Martin Mundhenk , Thomas Schneider , Henning Schnoor , Ilka Schnoor , Heribert Vollmer

The monadic shallow linear (MSL) class is a decidable fragment of first-order Horn clauses that was discovered and rediscovered around the turn of the century, with applications in static analysis and verification. We propose a new class of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Jerome Jochems , Eddie Jones , Steven Ramsay

It is well known that modal satisfiability is PSPACE-complete (Ladner 1977). However, the complexity may decrease if we restrict the set of propositional operators used. Note that there exist an infinite number of propositional operators,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Edith Hemaspaandra , Henning Schnoor , Ilka Schnoor

We prove a complexity dichotomy for a class of counting problems expressible as bipartite 3-regular Holant problems. For every problem of the form $\operatorname{Holant}\left(f\mid =_3 \right)$, where $f$ is any integer-valued ternary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jin-Yi Cai , Austen Z. Fan , Yin Liu

Many fundamental problems in artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and verification involve reasoning about sets and relations between sets and can be modeled as set constraint satisfaction problems (set CSPs). Such problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Manuel Bodirsky , Martin Hils , Alex Krimkevich

Answering Conjunctive Queries (CQs) and solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) are arguably among the most fundamental tasks in Computer Science. They are classical NP-complete problems. Consequently, the search for tractable…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler

We first show that infinite satisfiability can be reduced to finite satisfiability for all prenex formulas of Separation Logic with $k\geq1$ selector fields ($\seplogk{k}$). Second, we show that this entails the decidability of the finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Mnacho Echenim , Radu Iosif , Nicolas Peltier

In this paper, we investigate the parameterized complexity of model checking for Dependence Logic which is a well studied logic in the area of Team Semantics. We start with a list of nine immediate parameterizations for this problem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Juha Kontinen , Arne Meier , Yasir Mahmood

Encoding constraints into neural networks is attractive. This paper studies how to introduce the popular positive linear satisfiability to neural networks. We propose the first differentiable satisfiability layer based on an extension of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Runzhong Wang , Yunhao Zhang , Ziao Guo , Tianyi Chen , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan

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

We show that the model-checking problem is decidable for a fragment of the epistemic \mu-calculus. The fragment allows free variables within the scope of epistemic modalities in a restricted form that avoids constructing formulas embodying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Rodica Bozianu , Cătălin Dima , Constantin Enea

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

One-dimensional fragment of first-order logic is obtained by restricting quantification to blocks of existential (universal) quantifiers that leave at most one variable free. We investigate this fragment over words and trees, presenting a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Emanuel Kieronski , Antti Kuusisto

Finite-domain constraint satisfaction problems are either solvable by Datalog, or not even expressible in fixed-point logic with counting. The border between the two regimes coincides with an important dichotomy in universal algebra; in…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Manuel Bodirsky , Jakub Rydval

We consider the satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of the first-order logic extended with modulo counting quantifiers and interpreted over finite words or trees. We prove a small-model property of this logic, which gives a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Witold Charatonik

Most state-of-the-art satisfiability algorithms today are variants of the DPLL procedure augmented with clause learning. The main bottleneck for such algorithms, other than the obvious one of time, is the amount of memory used. In the field…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Jakob Nordström , Johan Håstad

We analyze how symmetries can be used to compress structures (also known as interpretations) onto a smaller domain without loss of information. This analysis suggests the possibility to solve satisfiability problems in the compressed domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Pierre Carbonnelle , Gottfried Schenner , Maurice Bruynooghe , Bart Bogaerts , Marc Denecker

The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) is a well-known example of monotonic reasoning, of intense practical interest due to fast solvers, complemented by rigorous fine-grained complexity results. However, for non-monotonic reasoning,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Victor Lagerkvist , Mohamed Maizia , Johannes Schmidt

We study formalisms for temporal and spatial reasoning in the modern context of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We show how questions on the complexity of their subclasses can be solved using existing results via the powerful use…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Barnaby Martin , Peter Jonsson , Manuel Bodirsky , Antoine Mottet

Building on the successes of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), Bj{\o}rner et al. initiated a research programme advocating Horn constraints as a suitable basis for automatic program verification. The notion of first-order constrained…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Long Pham , Steven J. Ramsay , C. -H. Luke Ong