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Tarski gave a general semantics for deductive reasoning: a formula a may be deduced from a set A of formulas iff a holds in all models in which each of the elements of A holds. A more liberal semantics has been considered: a formula a may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Daniel Lehmann

This paper introduces a more restrictive notion of feasibility of functionals on Baire space than the established one from second-order complexity theory. Thereby making it possible to consider functions on the natural numbers as running…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Akitoshi Kawamura , Florian Steinberg

There are two natural and well-studied approaches to temporal ontology and reasoning: point-based and interval-based. Usually, interval-based temporal reasoning deals with points as a particular case of duration-less intervals. A recent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Willem Conradie , Salih Durhan , Guido Sciavicco

We consider the semiring of abstract finite dynamical systems up to isomorphism, with the operations of alternative and synchronous execution. We continue searching for efficient algorithms for solving polynomial equations of the form $P(X)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Antonio E. Porreca , Marius Rolland

Semi-algebraic proof systems such as sum-of-squares (SoS) have attracted a lot of attention recently due to their relation to approximation algorithms: constant degree semi-algebraic proofs lead to conjecturally optimal polynomial-time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Fedor Part , Neil Thapen , Iddo Tzameret

This paper is devoted to systematic studies of some extensions of first-order G\"odel logic. The first extension is the first-order rational G\"odel logic which is an extension of first-order G\"odel logic, enriched by countably many…

We show that ESO universal Horn logic (existential second logic where the first order part is a universal Horn formula) is insufficient to capture P, the class of problems decidable in polynomial time. This statement is true in the presence…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Prabhu Manyem

We introduce and develop a set-based semantics for asynchronous TeamLTL. We consider two canonical logics in this setting: the extensions of TeamLTL by the Boolean disjunction and by the Boolean negation. We establish fascinating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Juha Kontinen , Max Sandström , Jonni Virtema

The fundamental theorem of symmetric polynomials over rings is a classical result which states that every unital commutative ring is fully elementary, i.e. we can express symmetric polynomials with elementary ones in a unique way. The…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Sara Kališnik , Davorin Lešnik

We show that the existence of a first-order formula separating two monadic second order formulas over countable ordinal words is decidable. This extends the work of Henckell and Almeida on finite words, and of Place and Zeitoun on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Thomas Colcombet , Sam van Gool , Rémi Morvan

We study the complexity of predicate logics based on team semantics. We show that the satisfiability problems of two-variable independence logic and inclusion logic are both NEXPTIME-complete. Furthermore, we show that the validity problem…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Juha Kontinen , Antti Kuusisto , Jonni Virtema

Nested words are a structured model of execution paths in procedural programs, reflecting their call and return nesting structure. Finite nested words also capture the structure of parse trees and other tree-structured data, such as XML. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rajeev Alur , Marcelo Arenas , Pablo Barcelo , Kousha Etessami , Neil Immerman , Leonid Libkin

We aim at improving reasoning on inconsistent and uncertain data. We focus on knowledge-graph data, extended with time intervals to specify their validity, as regularly found in historical sciences. We propose principles on semantics for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Victor David , Raphaël Fournier-S'niehotta , Nicolas Travers

We study logic for reasoning with if-then formulas describing dependencies between attributes of objects which are observed in consecutive points in time. We introduce semantic entailment of the formulas, show its fixed-point…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jan Triska , Vilem Vychodil

We introduce an expressive probabilistic temporal epistemic logic PTEL suitable to reason about uncertain knowledge of a non-rigid set of agents that can be changed during time. We define semantics for PTEL as Kripke models with epistemic…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Zoran Ognjanović , Angelina Ilić Stepić , Aleksandar Perović

A sound and complete algorithm for nominal unification of higher-order expressions with a recursive let is described, and shown to run in nondeterministic polynomial time. We also explore specializations like nominal letrec-matching for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Manfred Schmidt-Schauß , Temur Kutsia , Jordi Levy , Mateu Villaret , Yunus Kutz

We describe simple algebraic and combinatorial characterisations of finite relational core structures admitting finitely many obstructions. As a consequence, we show that it is decidable to determine whether a constraint satisfaction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benoit Larose , Cynthia Loten , Claude Tardif

We consider intuitionistic variants of linear temporal logic with `next', `until' and `release' based on expanding posets: partial orders equipped with an order-preserving transition function. This class of structures gives rise to a logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Philippe Balbiani , Joseph Boudou , Martín Diéguez , David Fernández-Duque

We prove that the word problem of a finitely generated group $G$ is in NP (solvable in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine) if and only if this group is a subgroup of a finitely presented group $H$ with polynomial…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. -C. Birget , A. Yu. Olshanskii , E. Rips , M. Sapir

The power of real-time Turing machines using sublinear space is investigated. In contrast to a claim appearing in the literature, such machines can accept non-regular languages, even if working in deterministic mode. While maintaining a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Holger Petersen