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Probabilistic programming languages have recently gained a lot of attention, in particular due to their applications in domains such as machine learning and differential privacy. To establish invariants of interest, many such languages…

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Propositional Dynamic Logic or PDL was invented as a logic for reasoning about regular programming constructs. We propose a new perspective on PDL as a multi-agent strategic logic (MASL). This logic for strategic reasoning has group…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Jan van Eijck

Since its establishment, propositional dynamic logic (PDL) has been a subject of intensive academic research and frequent use in the industry. We have studied the complexity of some PDL problems and in this paper, we show results for some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mohammad Javad Hosseinpour , Farzad Didehvar

In this paper, we develop approximate dynamic programming methods for stochastic systems modeled as Markov Decision Processes, given both soft performance criteria and hard constraints in a class of probabilistic temporal logic called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Lening Li , Jie Fu

We present a declarative language, PP, for the high-level specification of preferences between possible solutions (or trajectories) of a planning problem. This novel language allows users to elegantly express non-trivial, multi-dimensional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Tran Cao Son , Enrico Pontelli

Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation formalisms mainly characterised by constructors to build complex concepts and roles from atomic ones. Expressive role constructors are important in many applications, but can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Horrocks , Ulrike Sattler , Stephan Tobies

Recent work on loglinear models in probabilistic constraint logic programming is applied to first-order probabilistic reasoning. Probabilities are defined directly on the proofs of atomic formulae, and by marginalisation on the atomic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 James Cussens

Many languages and algebras have been proposed in recent years for the specification of authorization policies. For some proposals, such as XACML, the main motivation is to address real-world requirements, typically by providing a complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Jason Crampton , Charles Morisset

This work presents three increasingly expressive Dynamic Logics in which the programs are CCS processes (sCCS-PDL, CCS-PDL and XCCS-PDL). Their goal is to reason about properties of concurrent programs and systems described using CCS. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-02 Mario R. F. Benevides , L. Menasché Schechter

Predicate Logic with Definitions (PLD or D-logic) is a modification of first-order logic intended mostly for practical formalization of mathematics. The main syntactic constructs of D-logic are terms, formulas and definitions. A definition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Victor Makarov

We extend the simply-typed guarded $\lambda$-calculus with discrete probabilities and endow it with a program logic for reasoning about relational properties of guarded probabilistic computations. This provides a framework for programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Alejandro Aguirre , Gilles Barthe , Lars Birkedal , Aleš Bizjak , Marco Gaboardi , Deepak Garg

Dynamic logic is a powerful approach to reasoning about programs and their executions, obtained by extending classical logic with modalities that can express program executions as formulas. However, the use of dynamic logic in the setting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Matteo Acclavio , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti

We present a semantics of a probabilistic while-language with soft conditioning and continuous distributions which handles programs diverging with positive probability. To this end, we extend the probabilistic guarded command language…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Marcin Szymczak , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Definite descriptions are expressions of the form "the unique $x$ satisfying property $C$," which allow reference to objects through their distinguishing characteristics. They play a crucial role in ontology and query languages, offering an…

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We propose a human-supervised control synthesis method for a stochastic Dubins vehicle such that the probability of satisfying a specification given as a formula in a fragment of Probabilistic Computational Tree Logic (PCTL) over a set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Igor Cizelj , Calin Belta

We provide a constraint based computational model of linear precedence as employed in the HPSG grammar formalism. An extended feature logic which adds a wide range of constraints involving precedence is described. A sound, complete and…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Suresh Manandhar

This document discusses the definition of the Parameter Description Language (PDL). In this language parameters are described in a rigorous data model. With no loss of generality, we will represent this data model using XML. It intends to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Carlo Maria Zwolf , Paul Harrison , Julian Garrido , Jose Enrique Ruiz , Franck Le Petit

We introduce Parametric Linear Dynamic Logic (PLDL), which extends Linear Dynamic Logic (LDL) by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. LDL was proposed as an extension of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) that is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Peter Faymonville , Martin Zimmermann

We study the semantic foundation of expressive probabilistic programming languages, that support higher-order functions, continuous distributions, and soft constraints (such as Anglican, Church, and Venture). We define a metalanguage (an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Sam Staton , Hongseok Yang , Chris Heunen , Ohad Kammar , Frank Wood

Prompt engineering for LLMs remains complex, with existing frameworks either hiding complexity behind restrictive APIs or providing inflexible canned patterns that resist customization -- making sophisticated agentic programming…

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