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Graded modal logic is the formal language obtained from ordinary (propositional) modal logic by endowing its modal operators with cardinality constraints. Under the familiar possible-worlds semantics, these augmented modal operators receive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yevgeny Kazakov , Ian Pratt-Hartmann

We study the expressive power of First-Order Logic (\FO) over (unordered) infinite trees, with the aim of identifying robust characterisations in terms of branching-time specification formalisms. While such correspondences are well…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Massimo Benerecetti , Dario Della Monica , Angelo Matteo , Fabio Mogavero , Gabriele Puppis

Standpoint extensions of knowledge representation formalisms have been recently introduced as a means to incorporate multi-perspective modelling and reasoning through modal operators that attribute pieces of knowledge to specific entities…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Lucía Gómez Álvarez , Sebastian Rudolph

We study the satisfiability problem of symbolic finite automata and decompose it into the satisfiability problem of the theory of the input characters and the monadic second-order theory of the indices of accepted words. We use our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Rodrigo Raya

We extend the two-variable logic on data words with guarded regular binary predicates of the form $\widetilde{L}(x,y)$ that is true if positions $x$ and $y$ are in the same class and the factor strictly between $x$ and $y$ is in the regular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shibashis Guha , Amaldev Manuel , S P Rishal

We introduce a variant of modal logic, dubbed EXISTENTIAL COUNTING MODAL LOGIC (ECML), which captures a vast majority of problems known to be tractable in single exponential time when parameterized by treewidth. It appears that all these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Michał Pilipczuk

We investigate the expressive power of quantifier alternation hierarchy of first-order logic over words. This hierarchy includes the classes ${\Sigma}_i$ (sentences having at most $i$ blocks of quantifiers starting with an $\exists$) and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Théo Pierron , Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

We provide decidability and undecidability results on the model-checking problem for infinite tree structures. These tree structures are built from sequences of elements of infinite relational structures. More precisely, we deal with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Alex Spelten , Wolfgang Thomas , Sarah Winter

We define the adjacent fragment AF of first-order logic, obtained by restricting the sequences of variables occurring as arguments in atomic formulas. The adjacent fragment generalizes (after a routine renaming) two-variable logic as well…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Daumantas Kojelis , Ian Pratt-Hartmann

It was recently shown by van den Broeck at al. that the symmetric weighted first-order model counting problem (WFOMC) for sentences of two-variable logic FO2 is in polynomial time, while it is Sharp-P_1 complete for some FO3-sentences. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Antti Kuusisto , Carsten Lutz

In this paper, we study the sampling problem for first-order logic proposed recently by Wang et al. -- how to efficiently sample a model of a given first-order sentence on a finite domain? We extend their result for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuanhong Wang , Juhua Pu , Yuyi Wang , Ondřej Kuželka

We find that second order quantification is problematic when a quantified concept variable is supposed to function predicatively. This issue is analyzed and it is shown that a constructive interpretation of the falling under relation…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Nik Weaver

Quantified propositional intuitionistic logic is obtained from propositional intuitionistic logic by adding quantifiers \forall p, \exists p over propositions. In the context of Kripke semantics, a proposition is a subset of the worlds in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Richard Zach

The treewidth boundedness problem for a logic asks for the existence of an upper bound on the treewidth of the models of a given formula in that logic. This problem is found to be undecidable for first order logic. We consider a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Marius Bozga , Lucas Bueri , Radu Iosif , Florian Zuleger

This paper studies the logical properties of a very general class of infinite ranked trees, namely those generated by higher-order recursion schemes. We consider, for both monadic second-order logic and modal mu-calculus, three main…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Christopher H. Broadbent , Arnaud Carayol , C. -H. Luke Ong , Olivier Serre

This work investigates the algorithmic complexity of non-classical logics, focusing on superintuitionistic and modal systems. It is shown that propositional logics are usually polynomial-time reducible to their fragments with at most two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mikhail Rybakov

We consider an extension of first-order logic with a recursion operator that corresponds to allowing formulas to refer to themselves. We investigate the obtained language under two different systems of semantics, thereby obtaining two…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Reijo Jaakkola , Antti Kuusisto

Regular tree grammars and regular path expressions constitute core constructs widely used in programming languages and type systems. Nevertheless, there has been little research so far on reasoning frameworks for path expressions where node…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-02 Everardo Barcenas , Pierre Geneves , Nabil Layaida , Alan Schmitt

Hypertrace logic is a sorted first-order logic with separate sorts for time and execution traces. Its formulas specify hyperproperties, which are properties relating multiple traces. In this work, we extend hypertrace logic by introducing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Marek Chalupa , Thomas A. Henzinger , Ana Oliveira da Costa

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