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Biomedical ontologies contain numerous concept or role names involving negative knowledge such as lacks_part, absence_of. Such a representation with labels rather than logical constructors would not allow a reasoner to interpret lacks_part…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Chan Le Duc , Ludovic Brieulle

Description logics are knowledge representation languages that have been designed to strike a balance between expressivity and computational tractability. Many different description logics have been developed, and numerous computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Ronald de Haan

Representations are essential to mathematically model phenomena, but there are many options available. While each of those options provides useful properties with which to solve problems related to the phenomena in study, comparing results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luke Bayzid , Alexandre Madeira , Manuel A. Martins

We study the problem of fitting a description logic (DL) ontology to a given set of positive and negative examples that take the form of an ABox and a Boolean query. While previous work has investigated this problem for the expressive DLs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Marvin Grosser , Carsten Lutz

Ontology embeddings map classes, roles, and individuals in ontologies into $\mathbb{R}^n$, and within $\mathbb{R}^n$ similarity between entities can be computed or new axioms inferred. For ontologies in the Description Logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Olga Mashkova , Fernando Zhapa-Camacho , Robert Hoehndorf

We consider model-theoretic properties related to the expressive power of three analogues of $L_{\omega_1, \omega}$ for metric structures. We give an example showing that one of these infinitary logics is strictly more expressive than the…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Christopher J. Eagle

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide a basis for semantic abstractions within a neural network architecture. Such models have primarily been seen through the lens of interpretability so far, wherein they offer transparency by inferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Deepika SN Vemuri , Gautham Bellamkonda , Aditya Pola , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

The paper presents two equivalent definitions of answer sets for logic programs with aggregates. These definitions build on the notion of unfolding of aggregates, and they are aimed at creating methodologies to translate logic programs with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli , Islam Elkabani

Permissive-Nominal Logic (PNL) extends first-order predicate logic with term-formers that can bind names in their arguments. It takes a semantics in (permissive-)nominal sets. In PNL, the forall-quantifier or lambda-binder are just…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Gilles Dowek , Murdoch Gabbay

We present role logic, a notation for describing properties of relational structures in shape analysis, databases, and knowledge bases. We construct role logic using the ideas of de Bruijn's notation for lambda calculus, an encoding of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

Relational descriptions have been used in formalizing diverse computational notions, including, for example, operational semantics, typing, and acceptance by non-deterministic machines. We therefore propose a (restricted) logical theory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-02 Andrew Gacek , Dale Miller , Gopalan Nadathur

Since the introduction by Hodges, and refinement by V\"a\"an\"anen, team semantic constructions have been used to generate expressively enriched logics still conserving nice properties, such as compactness or decidability. In contrast,…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Fredrik Engström , Orvar Lorimer Olsson

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated on reasoning tasks, yet their logical abilities remain contested. To address this, we study LLMs' reasoning in a well-defined fragment of logic: syllogistic reasoning. We cast the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Leonardo Bertolazzi , Manuel Vargas Guzmán , Raffaella Bernardi , Maciej Malicki , Jakub Szymanik

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of semantics-aware assistant systems for mathematics: proof assistants express the semantic in logic and emphasize deduction, and computer algebra systems express the semantics in programming languages…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Michael Kohlhase , Felix Mance , Florian Rabe

Description logics (DL) are a family of formal languages for representing and reasoning about structured knowledge in terms of concepts and their relationships. A central reasoning problem in DL is concept subsumption. Although this problem…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Michał Henne , Barbara Morawska , Paweł Parys

We design temporal description logics suitable for reasoning about temporal conceptual data models and investigate their computational complexity. Our formalisms are based on DL-Lite logics with three types of concept inclusions (ranging…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Alessandro Artale , Roman Kontchakov , Vladislav Ryzhikov , Michael Zakharyaschev

We present syntactic characterisations for the union closed fragments of existential second-order logic and of logics with team semantics. Since union closure is a semantical and undecidable property, the normal form we introduce enables…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Matthias Hoelzel , Richard Wilke

Description logic programs (dl-programs) under the answer set semantics formulated by Eiter {\em et al.} have been considered as a prominent formalism for integrating rules and ontology knowledge bases. A question of interest has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Yisong Wang , Jia-Huai You , Li Yan Yuan , Yi-Dong Shen , Thomas Eiter

Principia Logico-Metaphysica contains a foundational logical theory for metaphysics, mathematics, and the sciences. It includes a canonical development of Abstract Object Theory [AOT], a metaphysical theory (inspired by ideas of Ernst…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Daniel Kirchner , Christoph Benzmüller , Edward N. Zalta

We study the separation of positive and negative data examples in terms of description logic concepts in the presence of an ontology. In contrast to previous work, we add a signature that specifies a subset of the symbols that can be used…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz , Hadrien Pulcini , Frank Wolter