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The problem of computing Craig Interpolants has recently received a lot of interest. In this paper, we address the problem of efficient generation of interpolants for some important fragments of first order logic, which are amenable for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-06-25 Alessandro Cimatti , Alberto Griggio , Roberto Sebastiani

We present a method for extracting general modules for ontologies formulated in the description logic ALC. A module for an ontology is an ideally substantially smaller ontology that preserves all entailments for a user-specified set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Hui Yang , Patrick Koopmann , Yue Ma , Nicole Bidoit

We show that a vast class of finitary fragments of geometric logic admit a form of Craig interpolation property. In doing so, we provide a new dictionary to import technology from algebraic logic to categorical logic.

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Ivan Di Liberti , Lingyuan Ye

Within the realm of service robotics, researchers have placed a great amount of effort into learning, understanding, and representing motions as manipulations for task execution by robots. The task of robot learning and problem-solving is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-23 David Paulius , Yu Sun

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of proof-theoretic methods for establishing interpolation properties across a range of logics, including classical, intuitionistic, modal, and substructural logics. Central to the discussion…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Iris van der Giessen , Raheleh Jalali , Roman Kuznets

Uniform interpolation is a strengthening of interpolation that holds for certain propositional logics. The starting point of this chapter is a theorem of A. Pitts, which shows that uniform interpolation holds for intuitionistic…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Sam van Gool

Craig's Interpolation theorem has a wide range of applications, from mathematical logic to computer science. Proof-theoretic techniques for establishing interpolation usually follow a method first introduced by Maehara for the Sequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Meven Lennon Bertrand , Alexis Saurin

The uniform interpolation property in a given logic can be understood as the definability of propositional quantifiers. We mechanise the computation of these quantifiers and prove correctness in the Coq proof assistant for three modal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Hugo Férée , Iris van der Giessen , Sam van Gool , Ian Shillito

This paper considers the problem of assumptions refinement in the context of unrealizable specifications for reactive systems. We propose a new counterstrategy-guided synthesis approach for GR(1) specifications based on Craig's…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Davide G. Cavezza , Dalal Alrajeh

Transformations in the field of computer graphics and geometry are one of the most important concepts for efficient manipulation and control of objects in 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional space. Transformations take many forms each with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Benjamin Kenwright

The Craig interpolation property (CIP) states that an interpolant for an implication exists iff it is valid. The projective Beth definability property (PBDP) states that an explicit definition exists iff a formula stating implicit…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alessandro Artale , Jean Christoph Jung , Andrea Mazzullo , Ana Ozaki , Frank Wolter

We define a new type of proof formalism for multi-agent modal logics with S5-type modalities. This novel formalism combines the features of hypersequents to represent S5 modalities with nested sequents to represent the T-like modality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Marta Bílková , Wesley Fussner , Roman Kuznets

Knowledge Graph embedding provides a versatile technique for representing knowledge. These techniques can be used in a variety of applications such as completion of knowledge graph to predict missing information, recommender systems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Shivani Choudhary , Tarun Luthra , Ashima Mittal , Rajat Singh

Entity images could provide significant visual information for knowledge representation learning. Most conventional methods learn knowledge representations merely from structured triples, ignoring rich visual information extracted from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ruobing Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun

The logics of knowledge are modal logics that have been shown to be effective in representing and reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent domains. Relatively few computational frameworks for dealing with computation of models and useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Chitta Baral , Gregory Gelfond , Enrico Pontelli , Tran Cao Son

Interpolation-based techniques have become popularized in recent years because of their inherently modular and local reasoning, which can scale up existing formal verification techniques like theorem proving, model-checking, abstraction…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ting Gan , Bican Xia , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Liyun Dai

There are exactly two maximal schematic extensions of the relevant logic R with the variable sharing property. We establish that one of them has a strong form of interpolation for deducibility, thereby giving an example of a well-known…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Wesley Fussner , Andrew Tedder

The notion of class is ubiquitous in computer science and is central in many formalisms for the representation of structured knowledge used both in knowledge representation and in databases. In this paper we study the basic issues…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 D. Calvanese , M. Lenzerini , D. Nardi

Craig interpolation has become a versatile algorithmic tool for improving software verification. Interpolants can, for instance, accelerate the convergence of fixpoint computations for infinite-state systems. They also help improve the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Angelo Brillout , Daniel Kroening , Thomas Wahl

The increasing popularity of automated tools for software and hardware verification puts ever increasing demands on the underlying decision procedures. This paper presents a framework for distributed decision procedures (for first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-03 Youssef Hamadi , Joao Marques-Silva , Christoph M. Wintersteiger