Preserving of admissible inference rules in modal logic

In the last two decades, modal and description logics have provided a theoretical framework for important applications in many areas of computer science. For this reason, the problem of automated reasoning in modal and description logics has been thoroughly investigated. In this chapter we show how efficient Boolean reasoning techniques have been imported, used and integrated into reasoning tools for modal and description logics. To this extent, we focus on modal logics, and in particular mainly on K(m). In particular, we provide some background in modal logics; we describe a basic theoretical framework and we present and analyze the basic tableau-based and DPLL-based techniques; we describe optimizations and extensions of the DPLL-based procedures; we introduce the automata-theoretic/OBDD-based approach; finally, we present the eager approach.

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 definability is valid. Thus, the CIP and PBDP reduce potentially hard existence problems to entailment in the underlying logic. Description (and modal) logics with nominals and/or role inclusions do not enjoy the CIP nor the PBDP, but interpolants and explicit definitions have many applications, in particular in concept learning, ontology engineering, and ontology-based data management. In this article, we show that, even without Beth and Craig, the existence of interpolants and explicit definitions is decidable in description logics with nominals and/or role inclusions such as 𝒜ℒ𝒞𝒪, 𝒜ℒ𝒞ℋ, and 𝒜ℒ𝒞ℋ𝒪ℐ and corresponding hybrid modal logics. However, living without Beth and Craig makes these problems harder than entailment: the existence problems become 2ExpTime -complete in the presence of an ontology or the universal modality, and coNExpTime -complete otherwise. We also analyze explicit definition existence if all symbols (except the one that is defined) are admitted in the definition. In this case, the complexity depends on whether one considers individual or concept names. Finally, we consider the problem of computing interpolants and explicit definitions if they exist and turn the complexity upper bound proof into an algorithm computing them, at least for description logics with role inclusions.

Decidability of order-based modal logics

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Recently, Baltag and van Benthem introduced a decidable logic of functional\ndependence (LFD) that extends the logic of Cylindrical Relativized Set Algebras\n(CRS) with atomic local dependence statements. Its semantics can be given in\nterms of generalised assignment models or their modal counterparts, hence the\nlogic is both a first-order and a modal logic. We show that LFD has the finite\nmodel property (FMP) using Herwig's theorem on extending partial isomorphisms,\nand prove a bisimulation invariance theorem characterizing LFD as a fragment of\nfirst-order logic.\n

A theoretical investigation into quantitative modal logic

This paper considers the bi-modal logic with both $$\Box $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mo>□</mml:mo> </mml:math> and $$\Diamond $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mo>◊</mml:mo> </mml:math> arising from Kripke models with crisp accessibility whose propositions are valued over the standard Gödel algebra [0, 1]. Since this logic lacks the finite model property, we study the logic $$\textbf{GW}^\textrm{c}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>GW</mml:mi> <mml:mtext>c</mml:mtext> </mml:msup> </mml:math> relying on witnessed Kripke models where, for each modal formula, there is an assignment where the formula without the modality takes the same value as the modal one. We provide a cut-free sequent calculus and we exploit it to prove that $$\textbf{GW}^\textrm{c}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>GW</mml:mi> <mml:mtext>c</mml:mtext> </mml:msup> </mml:math> is decidable and meets the finite model property. Finally, we explore a connection between the witnessed models and the well-known bi-relational Kripke semantics.

Some Modal Calculi Based On IC

It appears that the behaviour of interpolation over the modal S4 logic is similar to interpolation in superintuitionistic logics. It is shown that all extensions of S4 with interpolation property for deducibility IPD are modal companions of superintuitionistic logics with CIP, but there is an intermediate logic with CIP that has no modal companions with IPD. On the other hand, all modal companions of intermediate logics with CIP have a weaker version of interpolation, which is CIP restricted to those implications, where all occurrences of variables are preceded by necessity symbol. It is proved that there are no more than forty-nine modal logics with IPD in the family of normal extensions of S4; in this list there are twelve logics that have IPD but do not have CIP. All the forty-nine logics are finitely axiomatizable and have the finite model property. It is proved that IPD and CIP problems are deducible over S4, and amalgamation and superamalgamation are base-decidable in varieties of closure algebras.

In this paper we improve the results of [2] by proving the product f.m.p. for the product of minimal n-modal and minimal n-temporal logic. For this case we modify the finite depth method introduced in [1]. The main result is applied to identify new fragments of classical first-order logic and of the equational theory of relation algebras, that are decidable and have the finite model property.

A binary modal logic for the intersection types of lambda-calculus

There has been a significant interest in modal logics with intersection, prominent examples including epistemic and doxastic logics with distributed knowledge, propositional dynamic logic with intersection, and description logics with concept intersection. Completeness proofs for such logics tend to be complicated, in particular on model classes such as S5 used, e.g., in standard epistemic logic, mainly due to the undefinability of intersection of modalities in standard modal logic. A standard proof method for the S5 case uses an “unraveling-folding” technique to achieve a treelike model to deal with the problem of undefinability. This method, however, is not easily adapted to other logics, due to its reliance on S5 in a number of steps. In this paper we demonstrate a simpler and more general proof technique by building a treelike canonical model directly, which avoids the complications in the processes of unraveling and folding. We illustrate the technique by showing completeness of the normal modal logics K, D, T, B, S4 and S5 extended with intersection modalities. Furthermore, these treelike canonical models are compatible with Fischer-Ladner-style closures, and we combine the methods to show the completeness of the mentioned logics further extended with transitive closure of union modalities known from PDL or epistemic logic. Some of these completeness results are new.

This work presents three increasingly expressive Dynamic Logics in which the programs are described in a language based on CCS. Our goal is to build dynamic logics that are suitable for the description and verification of properties of communicating concurrent systems, in a similar way as PDL is used for the sequential case. In order to accomplish that, CCS’s operators and constructions are added to a basic modal logic. Doing this, the semantics of CCS’s parallel operator allows us to build dynamic logics that support communicating and concurrent programs. We build a simple Kripke semantics for these logics, provide complete axiomatizations for them and show that they have the finite model property. This contrasts with other dynamic logics with parallel operators presented in the literature, such as Peleg’s Concurrent PDL with Channels, where either the parallel programs cannot communicate, or at least one of the properties mentioned above (simple Kripke semantics, complete axiomatization and finite model property) is missing.

LetL be any modal or tense logic with the finite model property. For eachm, definer L (m) to be the smallest numberr such that for any formulaA withm modal operators,A is provable inL if and only ifA is valid in everyL-model with at mostr worlds. Thus, the functionr L determines the size of refutation Kripke models forL. In this paper, we will give an estimation ofr L (m) for some linear modal and tense logicsL.

Focused proofs are sequent calculus proofs that group inference rules into alternating positive and negative phases. These phases can then be used to define macro-level inference rules Gentzen’s original and tiny introduction and structural rules. We show here that the inference rules of labeled proof systems for modal logics can similarly be described as pairs of such phases within the LKF focused proof system for first-order classical logic. We consider the system $${ G3K} $$ of Negri for the modal logic $$K$$ and define a translation from labeled modal formulas into first-order polarized formulas and show a strict correspondence between derivations in the two systems, i.e., each rule application in $${ G3K} $$ corresponds to a bipole—a pair of a positive and a negative phases—in $${ LKF} $$ . Since geometric axioms (when properly polarized) induce bipoles, this strong correspondence holds for all modal logics whose Kripke frames are characterized by geometric properties. We extend these results to present a focused labeled proof system for this same class of modal logics and show its soundness and completeness. The resulting proof system allows one to define a rich set of normal forms of modal logic proofs.