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This paper presents a theory of systemic undecidability, reframing incomputability as a structural property of systems rather than a localized feature of specific functions or problems. We define a notion of causal embedding and prove a…

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The study of word equations (or the existential theory of equations over free monoids) is a central topic in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The problem of deciding whether a given word equation has a solution was shown to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Joel Day , Vijay Ganesh , Paul He , Florin Manea , Dirk Nowotka

The satisfiability problem for SPARQL patterns is undecidable in general, since the expressive power of SPARQL 1.0 is comparable with that of the relational algebra. The goal of this paper is to delineate the boundary of decidability of…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Xiaowang Zhang , Jan Van den Bussche , François Picalausa

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

Micro-Stipula is a stateful calculus in which clauses can be activated either through interactions with the external environment or by the evaluation of time expressions. Despite the apparent simplicity of its syntax and operational model,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Giorgio Delzanno , Cosimo Laneve , Arnaud Sangnier , Gianluigi Zavattaro

We study the problem of completely automatically verifying uninterpreted programs---programs that work over arbitrary data models that provide an interpretation for the constants, functions and relations the program uses. The verification…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Umang Mathur , P. Madhusudan , Mahesh Viswanathan

The chase is a fundamental tool for existential rules. Several chase variants are known, which differ on how they handle redundancies possibly caused by the introduction of nulls. Given a chase variant, the halting problem takes as input a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Stathis Delivorias , Michel Leclere , Marie-Laure Mugnier , Federico Ulliana

We introduce the completeness problem for Modal Logic and examine its complexity. For a definition of completeness for formulas, given a formula of a modal logic, the completeness problem asks whether the formula is complete for that logic.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Antonis Achilleos

The no-supervenience theorem limits the capacity of physicalist theories to provide a comprehensive account of human consciousness. The proof of the theorem is difficult to formalize because it relies on both alethic and epistemic notions…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-13 Cathy M Reason

Infinite games where several players seek to coordinate under imperfect information are deemed to be undecidable, unless the information is hierarchically ordered among the players. We identify a class of games for which joint winning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Dietmar Berwanger , Anup Basil Mathew

The interpolant existence problem (IEP) for a logic L is to decide, given formulas P and Q, whether there exists a formula I, built from the shared symbols of P and Q, such that P entails I and I entails Q in L. If L enjoys the Craig…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

In this paper we provide a first-ever epistemic formulation of stabilizing agreement, defined as the non-terminating variant of the well established consensus problem. In stabilizing agreements, agents are given (possibly different) initial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Giorgio Cignarale , Stephan Felber , Hugo Rincon Galeana

Where information grows abundant, attention becomes a scarce resource. As a result, agents must plan wisely how to allocate their attention in order to achieve epistemic efficiency. Here, we present a framework for multi-agent epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Gaia Belardinelli , Rasmus K. Rendsvig

Many logical properties are known to be undecidable for normal modal logics, with few exceptions such as consistency and coincidence with $\mathsf{K}$. This paper shows that the property of being a union-splitting in…

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The primary theme of this investigation is a decision theoretic account of conditional ought statements (e.g., "You ought to do A, if C") that rectifies glaring deficiencies in classical deontic logic. The resulting account forms a sound…

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In this note, we show the class of finite, epistemic programs to be Turing complete. Epistemic programs is a widely used update mechanism used in epistemic logic, where it such are a special type of action models: One which does not contain…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Dominik Klein , Rasmus K. Rendsvig

We study the satisfiability problem for a modal logic expressing knowing-how assertions, which captures an agent's ability to achieve a given goal under the standard semantics based on linear plans. Our main result shows that satisfiability…

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Machine learning researchers and practitioners steadily enlarge the multitude of successful learning models. They achieve this through in-depth theoretical analyses and experiential heuristics. However, there is no known general-purpose…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Matthias C. Caro

Many classical planning frameworks are built on first-order languages. The first-order expressive power is desirable for compactly representing actions via schemas, and for specifying quantified conditions such as $\neg\exists…

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