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This article fits in the area of research that investigates the application of topological duality methods to problems that appear in theoretical computer science. One of the eventual goals of this approach is to derive results in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Mehdi Zaïdi

DL^N is a recent approach that extends description logics with defeasible reasoning capabilities. In this paper we provide an overview on DL^N, illustrating the underlying knowledge engineering requirements as well as the characteristic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Piero A. Bonatti , Iliana M. Petrova , Luigi Sauro

The integration of reasoning, learning, and decision-making is key to build more general artificial intelligence systems. As a step in this direction, we propose a novel neural-logic architecture, called differentiable logic machine (DLM),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Matthieu Zimmer , Xuening Feng , Claire Glanois , Zhaohui Jiang , Jianyi Zhang , Paul Weng , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Wulong Liu

Qualitative Choice Logic (QCL) and Conjunctive Choice Logic (CCL) are formalisms for preference handling, with especially QCL being well established in the field of AI. So far, analyses of these logics need to be done on a case-by-case…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Michael Bernreiter , Jan Maly , Stefan Woltran

Separation Logic (SL) is a well-known assertion language used in Hoare-style modular proof systems for programs with dynamically allocated data structures. In this paper we investigate the fragment of first-order SL restricted to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Andrew Reynolds , Radu Iosif , Cristina Serban

We analyze the data complexity of ontology-mediated querying where the ontologies are formulated in a description logic (DL) of the ALC family and queries are conjunctive queries, positive existential queries, or acyclic conjunctive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Carsten Lutz , Frank Wolter

Differential Linear Logic (DiLL) is a sequent calculus that expresses differentiation via symmetries between linear and non-linear formulas. In this paper, we express categorical models of DiLL as a pair of Grothendieck fibrations equipped…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jad Koleilat

Circumscription is one of the main approaches for defining non-monotonic description logics (DLs). While the decidability and complexity of traditional reasoning tasks such as satisfiability of circumscribed DL knowledge bases (KBs) is well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Carsten Lutz , Quentin Manière , Robin Nolte

Fuzzy Description Logics (FDLs) are logic-based formalisms used to represent and reason with vague or imprecise knowledge. It has been recently shown that reasoning in most FDLs using truth values from the interval [0,1] becomes undecidable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Stefan Borgwardt , Rafael Peñaloza

In this paper, we study the data complexity of querying inconsistent weighted description logic (DL) knowledge bases under recently-introduced cost-based semantics. In a nutshell, the idea is to assign each interpretation a cost based upon…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Meghyn Bienvenu , Quentin Manière

Natural language inference (NLI) is formulated as a unified framework for solving various NLP problems such as relation extraction, question answering, summarization, etc. It has been studied intensively in the past few years thanks to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Wenpeng Yin , Dragomir Radev , Caiming Xiong

Large language models (LLMs) often benefit from verbalized reasoning at inference time, but it remains unclear which aspects of task difficulty these extra reasoning tokens address. To investigate this question, we formalize a framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Celine Lee , Alexander M. Rush , Keyon Vafa

From an inconsistent database non-trivial arguments may be constructed both for a proposition, and for the contrary of that proposition. Therefore, inconsistency in a logical database causes uncertainty about which conclusions to accept.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-12 Morten Elvang-Gøransson , Paul J. Krause , John Fox

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

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

Over the past few decades, non-monotonic reasoning has developed to be one of the most important topics in computational logic and artificial intelligence. Different ways to introduce non-monotonic aspects to classical logic have been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-13 Michael Thomas , Heribert Vollmer

It is widely recognized today that the management of imprecision and vagueness will yield more intelligent and realistic knowledge-based applications. Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation languages that have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 I. Horrocks , J. Z. Pan , G. Stamou , G. Stoilos , V. Tzouvaras

Conjunctive queries play an important role as an expressive query language for Description Logics (DLs). Although modern DLs usually provide for transitive roles, conjunctive query answering over DL knowledge bases is only poorly understood…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Birte Glimm , Ian Horrocks , Carsten Lutz , Ulrike Sattler

Datalog is a popular logic programming language for deductive reasoning tasks in a wide array of applications, including business analytics, program analysis, and ontological reasoning. However, Datalog's restriction to flat facts over…

In connection with machine arithmetic, we are interested in systems of constraints of the form x + k \leq y + k'. Over integers, the satisfiability problem for such systems is polynomial time. The problem becomes NP complete if we restrict…

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