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We introduce a logical framework for reasoning about "uncertain interpretations" and investigate two key applications: a new semantics for implication capturing a kind of "meaning entailment", and a conservative notion of "evidentially…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Adam Bjorndahl

We introduce a logic for reasoning about evidence that essentially views evidence as a function from prior beliefs (before making an observation) to posterior beliefs (after making the observation). We provide a sound and complete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph Y. Halpern , Riccardo Pucella

This series presents an approach to mathematical biology which makes precise the function of biological molecules. Because biological systems compute, the theory is a general purpose computer language. I build a language for efficiently…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Ron Maimon

In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

The aim of this paper is to give an introduction to our axiomatic logical analysis of relativity theories.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-27 Hajnal Andréka , István Németi , Judit X. Madarász , Gergely Székely

This article aims at clarifying the language and practice of scientific experiment, mainly by hooking observability on calculability.

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre Albarede

Epistemic protocol specifications allow programs, for settings in which multiple agents act with incomplete information, to be described in terms of how actions are related to what the agents know. They are a variant of the knowledge-based…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Xiaowei Huang , Ron van der Meyden

This brief note, written for non-specialists, aims at drawing an introductive overview of the multiverse issue.

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Aurelien Barrau

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a given specification. A natural way to specify programs is to provide examples of desired input-output behavior, and many current program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alexander Suh , Yuval Timen

This short note discusses the role of syntax vs. semantics and the interplay between logic, philosophy, and language in computer science and game theory.

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Joseph Y. Halpern

This report describes several approaches for handling synthesis conjectures within an Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver. We describe approaches that primarily focus on determining the unsatisfiability of the negated form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Andrew Reynolds

A short essay presenting the State-Effect Interpretation of natural deduction rules as an explanatory framework for recent developments in proof-theoretic semantics.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , Tao Gu , David J. Pym

Extending G\"odel's \emph{Dialectica} interpretation, we provide a functional interpretation of classical theories of positive arithmetic inductive definitions, reducing them to theories of finite-type functionals defined using transfinite…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Jeremy Avigad , Henry Towsner

This paper presents a general framework for unifying functional interpretations. It is based on families of parameters allowing for different degrees of freedom on the design of the interpretation. In this way we are able to generalise…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Bruno Dinis , Paulo Oliva

We discuss the idea that computers might soon help mathematicians to prove theorems in areas where they have not previously been useful. Furthermore we argue that these same computer tools will also help us in the communication and teaching…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Kevin Buzzard

We analyze the informal semantic conception of proof and axiomatize the proof relation and the provability operator. A self referential propositional calculus which admits provable liar type sentences is introduced and proven consistent. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Nik Weaver

A vast area of research in historical science concerns the documentation and study of artefacts and related evidence. Current practice mostly uses spreadsheets or simple relational databases to organise the information as rows with multiple…

Program synthesis is a class of regression problems where one seeks a solution, in the form of a source-code program, mapping the inputs to their corresponding outputs exactly. Due to its precise and combinatorial nature, program synthesis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Yewen Pu , Zachery Miranda , Armando Solar-Lezama , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

This article examines two approaches to verification, one based on using a logic for expressing properties of a system, and one based on showing the system equivalent to a simpler system that obviously has whatever property is of interest.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Riccardo Pucella

In this paper are briefly outlined the motivations, mathematical ideas in use, pre-formalization and assumptions, object-as-functor construction, `soft' types and concept constructions, case study for concepts based on variable domains,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viacheslav Wolfengagen