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We study the satisfiability problem of symbolic finite automata and decompose it into the satisfiability problem of the theory of the input characters and the monadic second-order theory of the indices of accepted words. We use our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Rodrigo Raya

Modal probabilistic logics provide a framework for reasoning about probability in modal contexts, involving notions such as knowledge, belief, time, and action. In this paper, we study a particular family of these logics, extending the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Daniil Kozhemiachenko , Igor Sedlár

A complete classification of the complexity of the local and global satisfiability problems for graded modal language over traditional classes of frames have already been established. By "traditional" classes of frames, we mean those…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Emanuel Kieroński , Piotr Witkowski

Motivated by the problem of finding finite versions of classical incompleteness theorems, we present some conjectures that go beyond ${\bf NP\neq co NP}$. These conjectures formally connect computational complexity with the difficulty of…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Pavel Pudlak

In this paper we investigate the complexity of abduction, a fundamental and important form of non-monotonic reasoning. Given a knowledge base explaining the world's behavior it aims at finding an explanation for some observed manifestation.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Nadia Creignou , Johannes Schmidt , Michael Thomas

In this paper, we initiate a systematic study of the parametrised complexity in the field of Dependence Logics which finds its origin in the Dependence Logic of V\"a\"an\"anen from 2007. We study a propositional variant of this logic (PDL)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yasir Mahmood , Arne Meier

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

A relation modification problem gets a logical structure and a natural number k as input and asks whether k modifications of the structure suffice to make it satisfy a predefined property. We provide a complete classification of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Florian Chudigiewitsch , Marlene Gründel , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Till Tantau

This paper studies the complexity of determining whether a formula in the modal logics characterizing the nested-simulation semantics is characteristic for some process, which is equivalent to determining whether the formula is satisfiable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Luca Aceto , Antonis Achilleos , Aggeliki Chalki , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Carlos Areces , Pablo Barceló , Valentin Cassano , Pablo F. Castro , Stéphane Demri , Raul Fervari

We analyze the computational complexity of admissibility and unifiability with parameters in transitive modal logics. The class of cluster-extensible (clx) logics was introduced in the first part of this series of papers. We completely…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Emil Jeřábek

Standard epistemic logic studies propositional knowledge, yet many other types of knowledge such as "knowing whether", "knowing what", "knowing how" are frequently and widely used in everyday life as well as academic fields. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yifeng Ding

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

Let L be some extension of classical propositional logic. The non-iterated probabilistic logic over L, is the logic PL that is defined by adding non-nested probabilistic operators in the language of L. For example in PL we can express a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ioannis Kokkinis

We systematically investigate the complexity of model checking the existential positive fragment of first-order logic. In particular, for a set of existential positive sentences, we consider model checking where the sentence is restricted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Hubie Chen

We study the fluted fragment of first-order logic which is often viewed as a multi-variable non-guarded extension to various systems of description logics lacking role-inverses. In this paper we show that satisfiable fluted sentences (even…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Daumantas Kojelis

We consider logic-based argumentation in which an argument is a pair (Fi,al), where the support Fi is a minimal consistent set of formulae taken from a given knowledge base (usually denoted by De) that entails the claim al (a formula). We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Nadia Creignou , Uwe Egly , Johannes Schmidt

This work investigates the algorithmic complexity of non-classical logics, focusing on superintuitionistic and modal systems. It is shown that propositional logics are usually polynomial-time reducible to their fragments with at most two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mikhail Rybakov

Probabilistic justification logic is a modal logic with two kind of modalities: probability measures and explicit justification terms. We present a tableau procedure that can be used to decide the satisfiability problem for this logic in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ioannis Kokkinis

Many natural optimization problems derived from $\sf NP$ admit bilevel and multilevel extensions in which decisions are made sequentially by multiple players with conflicting objectives, as in interdiction, adversarial selection, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Christoph Grüne , Berit Johannes , James B. Orlin , Lasse Wulf