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Quantitative separation logic (QSL) is an extension of separation logic (SL) for the verification of probabilistic pointer programs. In QSL, formulae evaluate to real numbers instead of truth values, e.g., the probability of memory-safe…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Kevin Batz , Ira Fesefeldt , Marvin Jansen , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Florian Keßler , Christoph Matheja , Thomas Noll

We define a new query measure we call quantum distinguishing complexity, denoted QD(f) for a Boolean function f. Unlike a quantum query algorithm, which must output a state close to |0> on a 0-input and a state close to |1> on a 1-input, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari

We describe the design of a quantifier elimination framework for the complex numbers in the language of ordered rings supplemented with symbols for the imaginary unit, real parts, imaginary parts, and conjugates. Technically, we use a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Nicolas Faroß , Thomas Sturm

Probabilistic Logic Programs (PLPs) generalize traditional logic programs and allow the encoding of models combining logical structure and uncertainty. In PLP, inference is performed by summarizing the possible worlds which entail the query…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Arun Nampally , Timothy Zhang , C. R. Ramakrishnan

This paper reports on the QBF solver QFUN that has won the non-CNF track in the recent QBF evaluation. The solver is motivated by the fact that it is easy to construct Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBFs) with short winning strategies…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Mikoláš Janota

The reactive synthesis problem is to compute a system satisfying a given specification in temporal logic. Bounded synthesis is the approach to bound the maximum size of the system that we accept as a solution to the reactive synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Peter Faymonville , Bernd Finkbeiner , Markus N. Rabe , Leander Tentrup

Description Logics (DLs) are used in knowledge-based systems to represent and reason about terminological knowledge of the application domain in a semantically well-defined manner. In this thesis, we establish a number of novel complexity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephan Tobies

Quantified Boolean Formula (QBF) is a notoriously hard generalization of \textsc{SAT}, especially from the point of view of parameterized complexity, where the problem remains intractable for most standard parameters. A recent work by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Andreas Grigorjew , Michael Lampis

Recently, symbolic structures were proposed as finite representations of potentially infinite first-order structures, where Linear Integer Arithmetic terms and formulas define the domain and interpretations of a structure. We generalize…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Neta Elad , Sharon Shoham

Symmetries have been exploited successfully within the realms of SAT and QBF to improve solver performance in practical applications and to devise more powerful proof systems. As a first step towards extending these advancements to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Clemens Hofstadler , Manuel Kauers , Martina Seidl

The minimization of propositional formulae is a classical problem in logic, whose first algorithms date back at least to the 1950s with the works of Quine and Karnaugh. Most previous work in the area has focused on obtaining minimal, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Eduardo Calò , Jordi Levy

An ordered binary decision diagram (OBDD) is a directed acyclic graph that represents a Boolean function. OBDDs are also known as special cases of oblivious read-once branching programs in the field of complexity theory. Since OBDDs have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Seiichiro Tani

Motivated by applications in modelling quantum systems using coalgebraic techniques, we introduce a fibred coalgebraic logic. Our approach extends the conventional predicate lifting semantics with additional modalities relating conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Daniel Marsden

The lower and upper bound of any given algorithm is one of the most crucial pieces of information needed when evaluating the computational effectiveness for said algorithm. Here a novel method of Boolean Algebraic Programming for symbolic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Daniel McCormack

We present the latest major release version 6.0 of the quantified Boolean formula (QBF) solver DepQBF, which is based on QCDCL. QCDCL is an extension of the conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) paradigm implemented in state of the art…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Florian Lonsing , Uwe Egly

We introduce a novel framework, termed $\lambda$DD, that revisits Binary Decision Diagrams from a purely functional point of view. The framework allows to classify the already existing variants, including the most recent ones like Chain-DD…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Joan Thibault , Khalil Ghorbal

We argue that in some KR applications, we want to quantify over sets of concepts formally represented by symbols in the vocabulary. We show that this quantification should be distinguished from second-order quantification and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Pierre Carbonnelle , Matthias Van der Hallen , Marc Denecker

Differentiable Logics are deployed in neuro-symbolic learning tasks as a way of embedding logical constraints in the training objective of neural networks. A differentiable logic consists of a syntax to write logical properties and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Thomas Flinkow , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matteo Capucci , Rosemary Monahan

We present an alternative proof of the NEXP-hardness of the satisfiability of {\em Dependency Quantified Boolean Formulas} (DQBF). Besides being simple, our proof also gives us a general method to reduce NEXP-complete problems to DQBF. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Fa-Hsun Chen , Shen-Chang Huang , Yu-Cheng Lu , Tony Tan

The quantified Boolean formula problem (QBF) is a well-known PSpace-complete problem with rich expressive power, and is generally viewed as the SAT analogue for PSpace. Given that many problems today are solved in practice by reducing to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist , Sebastian Ordyniak , George Osipov , Fahad Panolan , Mateusz Rychlicki