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We consider the problem of answering queries about formulas of first-order logic based on background knowledge partially represented explicitly as other formulas, and partially represented as examples independently drawn from a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Vaishak Belle , Brendan Juba

The problem of model checking procedural programs has fostered much research towards the definition of temporal logics for reasoning on context-free structures. The most notable of such results are temporal logics on Nested Words, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michele Chiari , Dino Mandrioli , Matteo Pradella

Assurance arguments provide a clear and structured way to explain why stakeholders should trust that a system satisfies certain properties, yet widely used notations, e.g.Goal Structuring Notation (GSN), typically lack an operational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Benjamin Herd , Jessica Kelly , Jan Sabsch , Lydia Gauerhof

By using the abstract structures investigated in the first Part of this article, we develop a semantics for an epistemic language, which expresses sentences like "Alice knows that Bob does not understand that PI is irrational". One is…

The failure of distributivity in quantum logic is motivated by the principle of quantum superposition. However, this principle can be encoded differently, i.e., in different logico-algebraic objects. As a result, the logic of experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Arkady Bolotin

We study various formulations of the completeness of first-order logic phrased in constructive type theory and mechanised in the Coq proof assistant. Specifically, we examine the completeness of variants of classical and intuitionistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yannick Forster , Dominik Kirst , Dominik Wehr

This paper provides a set of cut-free complete sequent-style calculi for deontic STIT ('See To It That') logics used to formally reason about choice-making, obligations, and norms in a multi-agent setting. We leverage these calculi to write…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Tim S. Lyon , Kees van Berkel

It is well known that dependence logic captures the complexity class NP, and it has recently been shown that inclusion logic captures P on ordered models. These results demonstrate that team semantics offers interesting new possibilities…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Antti Kuusisto

We present LISA, a proof system and proof assistant for constructing proofs in schematic first-order logic and axiomatic set theory. The logical kernel of the system is a proof checker for first-order logic with equality and schematic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Simon Guilloud , Sankalp Gambhir , Viktor Kunčak

We introduce a new semantics for justification logic based on subset relations. Instead of using the established and more symbolic interpretation of justifications, we model justifications as sets of possible worlds. We introduce a new…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Eveline Lehmann , Thomas Studer

This paper presents a substructural logic of sequents with very restricted exchange and weakening rules. It is sound with respect to sequences of measurements of a quantic system. A sound and complete semantics is provided. The semantic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Daniel Lehmann

We show how to give a coherent semantics to programs that are well-specified in a version of separation logic for a language with higher types: idealized algol extended with heaps (but with immutable stack variables). In particular, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Lars Birkedal , Noah Torp-Smith , Hongseok Yang

Henkin, Monk and Tarski gave a compositional semantics for first-order predicate logic. We extend this work by including function symbols in the language and by giving the denotation of the atomic formula as a composition of the denotations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Philip Kelly , M. H. van Emden

We study a logic-based approach to versioning of ontologies. Under this view, ontologies provide answers to queries about some vocabulary of interest. The difference between two versions of an ontology is given by the set of queries that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Boris Konev , Michel Ludwig , Dirk Walther , Frank Wolter

We present a mechanized embedding of higher-order logic (HOL) and algebraic data types (ADT) into first-order logic with ZFC axioms. We implement this in the Lisa proof assistant for schematic first-order logic and its library based on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Simon Guilloud , Sankalp Gambhir , Andrea Gilot , Viktor Kunčak

In this paper we analyze k-ary inclusion-exclusion logic, INEX[k], which is obtained by extending first order logic with k-ary inclusion and exclusion atoms. We show that every formula of INEX[k] can be expressed with a formula of k-ary…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Raine Rönnholm

Standard epistemic logics introduce a modal operator K to represent knowledge, but in doing so they presuppose the logical apparatus they aim to explain. By contrast, this paper explores how logic may be derived from the structure of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alexader V. Gheorghiu , Tao Gu

Probabilistic programming provides a convenient lingua franca for writing succinct and rigorous descriptions of probabilistic models and inference tasks. Several probabilistic programming languages, including Anglican, Church or Hakaru,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tetsuya Sato , Alejandro Aguirre , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi , Deepak Garg , Justin Hsu

We present a natural standard translation of inquisitive modal logic InqML into first-order logic over the natural two-sorted relational representations of the intended models, which captures the built-in higher-order features of InqML.…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Silke Meißner , Martin Otto

We study descriptive complexity of counting complexity classes in the range from #P to #$\cdot$NP. A corollary of Fagin's characterization of NP by existential second-order logic is that #P can be logically described as the class of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Anselm Haak , Juha Kontinen , Fabian Müller , Heribert Vollmer , Fan Yang