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We discuss proving correctness and completeness of definite clause logic programs. We propose a method for proving completeness, while for proving correctness we employ a method which should be well known but is often neglected. Also, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Włodzimierz Drabent

We study counting propositional logic as an extension of propositional logic with counting quantifiers. We prove that the complexity of the underlying decision problem perfectly matches the appropriate level of Wagner's counting hierarchy,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Melissa Antonelli , Ugo Dal Lago , Paolo Pistone

Logic programs, more specifically, Answer-set programs, can be annotated with probabilities on facts to express uncertainty. We address the problem of propagating weight annotations on facts (eg probabilities) of an ASP to its standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Francisco Coelho , Bruno Dinis , Dietmar Seipel , Salvador Abreu

This paper reports on empirical work aimed at comparing evidential reasoning techniques. While there is prima facie evidence for some conclusions, this i6 work in progress; the present focus is methodology, with the goal that subsequent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Ronald P. Loui

The probability theory is a well-studied branch of mathematics, in order to carry out formal reasoning about probability. Thus, it is important to have a logic, both for computation of probabilities and for reasoning about probabilities,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Zoran Majkic

Sequential propositional logic deviates from ordinary propositional logic by taking into account that during the sequential evaluation of a propositional statement,atomic propositions may yield different Boolean values at repeated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-06-28 J. A. Bergstra , A. Ponse

Pearl and Verma developed d-separation as a widely used graphical criterion to reason about the conditional independencies that are implied by the causal structure of a Bayesian network. As acyclic ground probabilistic logic programs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Kilian Rückschloß , Felix Weitkämper

Probabilistic coupling is a powerful tool for analyzing pairs of probabilistic processes. Roughly, coupling two processes requires finding an appropriate witness process that models both processes in the same probability space. Couplings…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Gilles Barthe , Thomas Espitau , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Léo Stefanesco , Pierre-Yves Strub

Program sensitivity, also known as Lipschitz continuity, describes how small changes in a program's input lead to bounded changes in the output. We propose an average notion of program sensitivity for probabilistic programs---expected…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Gilles Barthe , Thomas Espitau , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub

Modern separation logics allow one to prove rich properties of intricate code, e.g. functional correctness and linearizability of non-blocking concurrent code. However, this expressiveness leads to a complexity that makes these logics…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Felix A. Wolf , Malte Schwerhoff , Peter Müller

Recursive calls over recursive data are useful for generating probability distributions, and probabilistic programming allows computations over these distributions to be expressed in a modular and intuitive way. Exact inference is also…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Chiang , Colin McDonald , Chung-chieh Shan

We propose a version of WalkSAT algorithm, named as BetaWalkSAT. This method uses probabilistic reasoning for biasing the starting state of the local search algorithm. Beta distribution is used to model the belief over boolean values of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Reazul Hasan Russel

We address the problem of supporting empirical probabilities in monadic logic databases. Though the semantics of multivalued logic programs has been studied extensively, the treatment of probabilities as results of statistical findings has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Raymond T. Ng , V. S. Subrahmanian

ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. Timed automata is a class of continuous real-time models of reactive systems for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Beffara , Olivier Bournez , Hassen Kacem , Claude Kirchner

ELAN is a powerful language and environment for specifying and prototyping deduction systems in a language based on rewrite rules controlled by strategies. Timed automata is a class of continuous real-time models of reactive systems for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-07-20 Emmanuel Beffara , Olivier Bournez , Hassen Kacem , Claude Kirchner

Existing refinement calculi provide frameworks for the stepwise development of imperative programs from specifications. This paper presents a refinement calculus for deriving logic programs. The calculus contains a wide-spectrum logic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Hayes , Robert Colvin , David Hemer , Paul Strooper , Ray Nickson

As the complexity of software systems continues to increase, the demand for automated testing and maintenance tools is growing exponentially. To meet this urgent need, we propose a new assertion generation method based on Hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yi Zhong , Hongchao Liu , Di ZHao

We show that verification of object-oriented programs by means of the assertional method can be achieved in a simple way by exploiting a syntax-directed transformation from object-oriented programs to recursive programs. This transformation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Krzysztof R. Apt , Frank S. de Boer , Ernst-Ruediger Olderog , Stijn de Gouw

Understanding the behavior of learned classifiers is an important task, and various black-box explanations, logical reasoning approaches, and model-specific methods have been proposed. In this paper, we introduce probabilistic sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Eric Wang , Pasha Khosravi , Guy Van den Broeck

A logic programming paradigm which expresses solutions to problems as stable models has recently been promoted as a declarative approach to solving various combinatorial and search problems, including planning problems. In this paradigm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maurice Bruynooghe