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Approximation fixpoint theory (AFT) is an abstract and general algebraic framework for studying the semantics of nonmonotonic logics. It provides a unifying study of the semantics of different formalisms for nonmonotonic reasoning, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jesse Heyninck , Ofer Arieli , Bart Bogaerts

Approximation Fixpoint Theory (AFT) is a powerful theory covering various semantics of non-monotonic reasoning formalisms in knowledge representation such as Logic Programming and Answer Set Programming. Many semantics of such non-monotonic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Linde Vanbesien , Bart Bogaerts , Marc Denecker

Approximation Fixpoint Theory (AFT) is an algebraic framework designed to study the semantics of non-monotonic logics. Despite its success, AFT is not readily applicable to higher-order definitions. To solve such an issue, we devise a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Samuele Pollaci , Babis Kostopoulos , Marc Denecker , Bart Bogaerts

Approximation fixpoint theory (AFT) is an abstract and general algebraic framework for studying the semantics of non-monotonic logics. In recent work, AFT was generalized to non-deterministic operators, i.e.\ operators whose range are sets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Jesse Heyninck , Bart Bogaerts

Fuzzy logic programming is an established approach for reasoning under uncertainty. Several semantics from classical, two-valued logic programming have been generalized to the case of fuzzy logic programs. In this paper, we show that two of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Pascal Kettmann , Jesse Heyninck , Hannes Strass

Aggregates provide a concise way to express complex knowledge. The problem of selecting an appropriate formalisation of aggregates for answer set programming (ASP) remains unsettled. This paper revisits it from the viewpoint of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Linde Vanbesien , Maurice Bruynooghe , Marc Denecker

A wide variety of nonmonotonic semantics can be expressed as approximators defined under AFT (Approximation Fixpoint Theory). Using traditional AFT theory, it is not possible to define approximators that rely on information computed in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Spencer Killen , Jia-Huai You

Approximation fixpoint theory (AFT) provides an algebraic framework for the study of fixpoints of operators on bilattices and has found its applications in characterizing semantics for various classes of logic programs and nonmonotonic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Fangfang Liu , Jia-huai You

Many modern solvers and program analyzers rely on non-monotone reasoning (e.g. negation-as-failure, speculative updates, backtracking) for which classical monotone fixed-point methods do not apply. The general problem of finding the fixed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abdullah H. Rasheed , Vijay K. Garg

We propose a stable model semantics for higher-order logic programs. Our semantics is developed using Approximation Fixpoint Theory (AFT), a powerful formalism that has successfully been used to give meaning to diverse non-monotonic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Bart Bogaerts , Angelos Charalambidis , Giannos Chatziagapis , Babis Kostopoulos , Samuele Pollaci , Panos Rondogiannis

We define a novel, extensional, three-valued semantics for higher-order logic programs with negation. The new semantics is based on interpreting the types of the source language as three-valued Fitting-monotonic functions at all levels of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Angelos Charalambidis , Panos Rondogiannis , Ioanna Symeonidou

DatalogMTL with negation is an extension of Datalog with metric temporal operators enriched with unstratifiable negation. In this paper, we define the stable, well-founded, Kripke-Kleene, and supported model semantics for DatalogMTL with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Samuele Pollaci

Fixpoints are ubiquitous in computer science and when dealing with quantitative semantics and verification one often considers least fixpoints of (higher-dimensional) functions over the non-negative reals. We show how to approximate the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Paolo Baldan , Sebastian Gurke , Barbara König , Tommaso Padoan , Florian Wittbold

We present a new abstract interpretation framework for the precise over-approximation of numerical fixpoint iterators. Our key observation is that unlike in standard abstract interpretation (AI), typically used to over-approximate all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

SHACL is a W3C-proposed language for expressing structural constraints on RDF graphs. The recommendation only specifies semantics for non-recursive SHACL; recently, some efforts have been made to allow recursive SHACL schemas. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Bart Bogaerts , Maxime Jakubowski

Static analysis by abstract interpretation aims at automatically proving properties of computer programs. To do this, an over-approximation of program semantics, defined as the least fixpoint of a system of semantic equations, must be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Olivier Bouissou , Yassamine Seladji , Alexandre Chapoutot

To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Proceedings of ICLP 2015 Recent advances in knowledge compilation introduced techniques to compile \emph{positive} logic programs into propositional logic, essentially exploiting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Bart Bogaerts , Guy Van den Broeck

Based on the idea of randomizing the traditional space theory of functional analysis, random functional analysis has been developed as functional analysis over random metric spaces, random normed modules and random locally convex modules.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Tiexin Guo , Qiang Tu , Xiaohuan Mu , Yuanyuan Sun

We analyze the problem of defining well-founded semantics for ordered logic programs within a general framework based on alternating fixpoint theory. We start by showing that generalizations of existing answer set approaches to preference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Torsten Schaub , Kewen Wang

Truncated Fourier Transforms (TFTs), first introduced by Van der Hoeven, refer to a family of algorithms that attempt to smooth "jumps" in complexity exhibited by FFT algorithms. We present an in-place TFT whose time complexity, measured in…

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