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This paper introduces a generic framework that provides sufficient conditions for guaranteeing polynomial-time decidability of fixed-negation fragments of first-order theories that adhere to certain fixed-parameter tractability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Christoph Haase , Alessio Mansutti , Amaury Pouly

This is the first of a series of papers in which we study deep computations (ultracomputations) and deep iterates, formalizing the ideas of "asymptotic limit" of computations and compositional iterates, respectively. In this first paper of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Samson Alva , Eduardo Dueñez , Jose Iovino , Claire Walton

We study the computational complexity of scheduling jobs on a single speed-scalable processor with the objective of capturing the trade-off between the (weighted) flow time and the energy consumption. This trade-off has been extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Antonios Antoniadis , Denise Graafsma , Ruben Hoeksma , Maria Vlasiou

Logics with team semantics provide alternative means for logical characterization of complexity classes. Both dependence and independence logic are known to capture non-deterministic polynomial time, and the frontiers of tractability in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Miika Hannula , Lauri Hella

This contribution investigates the computational complexity of simulating linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) on digital computers. We provide an exact characterization of the complexity blowup for a class of ODEs of arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Adalbert Fono , Noah Wedlich , Holger Boche , Gitta Kutyniok

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

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

This is a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Robotics. It is devoted to the study of complexity of complete (or exact) algorithms for robot motion planning. The term ``complete'' indicates that an approach is guaranteed to find the correct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Kiril Solovey

We identify a number of decidable and undecidable fragments of first-order concatenation theory. We also give a purely universal axiomatization which is complete for the fragments we identify. Furthermore, we prove some normal-form results.

Logic · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Lars Kristiansen , Juvenal Murwanashyaka

First-order model counting (FOMC) is a computational problem that asks to count the models of a sentence in finite-domain first-order logic. In this paper, we argue that the capabilities of FOMC algorithms to date are limited by their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Paulius Dilkas , Vaishak Belle

Using a recently introduced algebraic framework for the classification of fragments of first-order logic, we study the complexity of the satisfiability problem for several ordered fragments of first-order logic, which are obtained from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Reijo Jaakkola

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 Weighted First-Order Model Counting Problem (WFOMC) asks to compute the weighted sum of models of a given first-order logic sentence over a given domain. The boundary between fragments for which WFOMC can be computed in polynomial time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Qipeng Kuang , Václav Kůla , Ondřej Kuželka , Yuanhong Wang , Yuyi Wang

Various feature descriptions are being employed in logic programming languages and constrained-based grammar formalisms. The common notational primitive of these descriptions are functional attributes called features. The descriptions…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Rolf Backofen , Gert Smolka

We bring forward a logical system of transition algebras that enhances many-sorted first-order logic using features from dynamic logics. The sentences we consider include compositions, unions, and transitive closures of transition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hashimoto Go , Daniel Găină , Ionuţ Ţuţu

We show that the relational theory of intersection types known as BCD has the finite model property; that is, BCD is complete for its finite models. Our proof uses rewriting techniques which have as an immediate by-product the polynomial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Rick Statman

This paper talk about the complexity of computation by Turing Machine. I take attention to the relation of symmetry and order structure of the data, and I think about the limitation of computation time. First, I make general problem named…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Koji Kobayashi

The notion of bounded expansion captures uniform sparsity of graph classes and renders various algorithmic problems that are hard in general tractable. In particular, the model-checking problem for first-order logic is fixed-parameter…

For a sequence of random structures with $n$-element domains over a relational signature, we define its first order (FO) complexity as a certain subset in the Banach space $\ell^{\infty}/c_0$. The well-known FO zero-one law and FO…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Danila Demin , Maksim Zhukovskii

We study here several variants of the covariates fine balance problem where we generalize some of these problems and introduce a number of others. We present here a comprehensive complexity study of the covariates problems providing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Dorit S. Hochbaum , Asaf Levin , Xu Rao