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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…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-07 Nikolaj Bjørner , Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich , Madan Musuvathi

We show that the decision problem for the basic system of interpretability logic IL is PSPACE-complete. For this purpose we present an algorithm which uses polynomial space with respect to the complexity of a given formula. The existence of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Luka Mikec , Fedor Pakhomov , Mladen Vuković

Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) is a logical framework for representing and reasoning about knowledge change for multiple agents. An important computational task in this framework is the model checking problem, which has been shown to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Ronald de Haan , Iris van de Pol

We give a comprehensive account on the parameterized complexity of model checking and satisfiability of propositional inclusion and independence logic. We discover that for most parameterizations the problems are either in FPT or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yasir Mahmood , Jonni Virtema

The decidability of axiomatic extensions of the modal logic K with modal reduction principles, i.e. axioms of the form $\Diamond^{k} p \rightarrow \Diamond^{n} p$, has remained a long-standing open problem. In this paper, we make…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja , Tim S. Lyon

Modal logic is a paradigm for several useful and applicable formal systems in computer science. It generally retains the low complexity of classical propositional logic, but notable exceptions exist in the domains of description, temporal,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Davide Bresolin , Emilio Muñoz-Velasco , Guido Sciavicco

One approach to confronting computational hardness is to try to understand the contribution of various parameters to the running time of algorithms and the complexity of computational tasks. Almost no computational tasks in real life are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-23 Rodney G. Downey , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Optimization is fundamental in many areas of science, from computer science and information theory to engineering and statistical physics, as well as to biology or social sciences. It typically involves a large number of variables and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-08 Lenka Zdeborová

Most parameterized complexity classes are defined in terms of a parameterized version of the Boolean satisfiability problem (the so-called weighted satisfiability problem). For example, Downey and Fellow's W-hierarchy is of this form. But…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joerg Flum , Martin Grohe

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

Much algorithmic research in NLP aims to efficiently manipulate rich formal structures. An algorithm designer typically seeks to provide guarantees about their proposed algorithm -- for example, that its running time or space complexity is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell , Jason Eisner

For each natural number $n$ we study the modal logic determined by the class of transitive Kripke frames in which there are no cycles of length greater than $n$ and no strictly ascending chains. The case $n=0$ is the G\"odel-L\"ob…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Robert Goldblatt

A many-valued modal logic is introduced that combines the usual Kripke frame semantics of the modal logic K with connectives interpreted locally at worlds by lattice and group operations over the real numbers. A labelled tableau system is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Denisa Diaconescu , George Metcalfe , Laura Schnüriger

The field of implicit complexity has recently produced several bounded-complexity programming languages. This kind of language allows to implement exactly the functions belonging to a certain complexity class. We here present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Aloïs Brunel , Antoine Madet

The early classifications of the computational complexity of planning under various restrictions in STRIPS (Bylander) and SAS+ (Baeckstroem and Nebel) have influenced following research in planning in many ways. We go back and reanalyse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Christer Baeckstroem , Yue Chen , Peter Jonsson , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

Formal explainability guarantees the rigor of computed explanations, and so it is paramount in domains where rigor is critical, including those deemed high-risk. Unfortunately, since its inception formal explainability has been hampered by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xuanxiang Huang , Joao Marques-Silva

We study the computational complexity of the infinite-horizon discounted-reward Markov Decision Problem (MDP) with a finite state space $|\mathcal{S}|$ and a finite action space $|\mathcal{A}|$. We show that any randomized algorithm needs a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Yichen Chen , Mengdi Wang

We consider the hardness of approximation of optimization problems from the point of view of definability. For many NP-hard optimization problems it is known that, unless P = NP, no polynomial-time algorithm can give an approximate solution…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Albert Atserias , Anuj Dawar

Polyhedral semantics is a recently introduced branch of spatial modal logic, in which modal formulas are interpreted as piecewise linear subsets of an Euclidean space. Polyhedral semantics for the basic modal language has already been well…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Nick Bezhanishvili , Laura Bussi , Vincenzo Ciancia , David Fernández-Duque , David Gabelaia

We study a class of functional problems reducible to computing $f^{(n)}(x)$ for inputs $n$ and $x$, where $f$ is a polynomial-time bijection. As we prove, the definition is robust against variations in the type of reduction used in its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Eppstein