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We define a family of intuitionistic non-normal modal logics; they can bee seen as intuitionistic counterparts of classical ones. We first consider monomodal logics, which contain only one between Necessity and Possibility. We then consider…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Tiziano Dalmonte , Charles Grellois , Nicola Olivetti

This paper studies axioms for nonmonotonic consequences from a semantics-based point of view, focusing on a class of mathematical structures for reasoning about partial information without a predefined syntax/logic. This structure is called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Guo-Qiang Zhang

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in explanation methods for neural model predictions that offer precise formal guarantees. These include abductive (respectively, contrastive) methods, which aim to compute minimal subsets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ouns El Harzli , Bernardo Cuenca Grau , Ian Horrocks

Probabilistic Soft Logic has been proposed and used in several applications as an efficient way to deal with inconsistency, uncertainty and relational representation. In several applications, this approach has led to an adequate description…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Vladik Kreinovich , Chitta Baral

We seek to find normative criteria of adequacy for nonmonotonic logic similar to the criterion of validity for deductive logic. Rather than stipulating that the conclusion of an inference be true in all models in which the premises are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Henry E. Kyburg , Choh Man Teng

Let's fix a reasonable subsystem $T$ of arithmetic; why are natural extensions of $T$ pre-well-ordered by consistency strength? In previous work, an approach to this question was proposed. The goal of this work was to classify the recursive…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-09-21 James Walsh

In studying the complexity of iterative processes it is usually assumed that the arithmetic operations of addition, multiplication, and division can be performed in certain constant times. This assumption is invalid if the precision…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Richard P. Brent

These lectures deal with the problem of inductive inference, that is, the problem of reasoning under conditions of incomplete information. Is there a general method for handling uncertainty? Or, at least, are there rules that could in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-09-08 Ariel Caticha

While monotone operator theory is often studied on Hilbert spaces, many interesting problems in machine learning and optimization arise naturally in finite-dimensional vector spaces endowed with non-Euclidean norms, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Alexander Davydov , Saber Jafarpour , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Francesco Bullo

We propose a notion of operator monotonicity for functions of several variables, which extends the well known notion of operator monotonicity for functions of only one variable. The notion is chosen such that a fundamental relationship…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Hansen

We consider two operations on the Mittag-Leffler function which cancel the exponential term in the expansion at infinity, and generate a completely monotonic function. The first one is the action of a certain differential-difference…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-18 Thomas Simon

In some inferential statistical methods, such as tests and confidence intervals, it is important to describe the stochastic behavior of statistical functionals, aside from their large sample properties. We study such behavior in terms of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Tommaso Lando , Idir Arab , Paulo Eduardo Oliveira

Deduction is the one of the major forms of inferences and commonly used in formal logic. This kind of inference has the feature of monotonicity, which can be problematic. There are different types of inferences that are not monotonic, e.g.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Florian Richter

The paper studies problems of satisfiability, decidability and admissibility of inference rules, conceptions of knowledge and agent's knowledge in non-transitive temporal linear logic LTL(Past,m). We find algorithms solving mentioned…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Vladimir Rybakov

We propose a method of obtaining a posteriori estimates which does not use the duality theory and which applies to variational inequalities with monotone operators, without assuming the potentiality of operators. The effectiveness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Vladimir Bobkov , Svetlana Pastukhova

We motivate and study an infinite sequence of binary operations on the ordinal numbers, extending the standard arithmetic on the ordinals to higher degrees of iteration. Connections to the hyperoperations on the natural numbers are…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Adrian Ducourtial

We describe a representation and a set of inference methods that combine logic programming techniques with probabilistic network representations for uncertainty (influence diagrams). The techniques emphasize the dynamic construction and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-11 John S. Breese , Edison Tse

Within the program of finding axiomatizations for various parts of computability logic, it was proved earlier that the logic of interactive Turing reduction is exactly the implicative fragment of Heyting's intuitionistic calculus. That sort…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-15 Giorgi Japaridze

We consider the termination/non-termination property of a class of loops. Such loops are commonly used abstractions of real program pieces. Second-order logic is a convenient language to express non-termination. Of course, such property is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet

A variety of problems emerged investigating electronic circuits, computer devices and cellular automata motivated a number of attempts to create a differential and integral calculus for Boolean functions. In the present article, we extend…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Eduardo Mizraji