A resolution decision procedure for the guarded fragment

1998 ◽  
pp. 191-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans de Nivelle
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Guarded Fragment

scholarly journals The Triguarded Fragment with Transitivity

10.29007/z359 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Kieronski ◽  
Adam Malinowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
First Order Logic ◽  
Satisfiability Problem ◽  
First Order ◽  
Free Variables ◽  
Guarded Fragment

The triguarded fragment of first-order logic is an extension of the guarded fragment in which quantification for subformulas with at most two free variables need not be guarded. Thus, it unifies two prominent decidable logics: the guarded fragment and the two-variable fragment. Its satisfiability problem is known to be undecidable in the presence of equality, but becomes decidable when equality is forbidden. We consider an extension of the tri- guarded fragment without equality by transitive relations, allowing them to be used only as guards. We show that the satisfiability problem for the obtained formalism is decidable and 2-ExpTime-complete, that is, it is of the same complexity as for the analogous exten- sion of the classical guarded fragment. In fact, in our satisfiability test we use a decision procedure for the latter as a subroutine. We also show how our approach, consisting in exploiting some existing results on guarded logics, can be used to reprove some known facts, as well as to derive some other new results on triguarded logics.

scholarly journals Deciding the Loosely Guarded Fragment and Querying Its Horn Fragment Using Resolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 3080-3087
Author(s):  
Sen Zheng ◽  
Renate Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Query Answering ◽  
Conjunctive Query ◽  
Conjunctive Queries ◽  
Guarded Fragment ◽  
Horn Fragment

We consider the following query answering problem: Given a Boolean conjunctive query and a theory in the Horn loosely guarded fragment, the aim is to determine whether the query is entailed by the theory. In this paper, we present a resolution decision procedure for the loosely guarded fragment, and use such a procedure to answer Boolean conjunctive queries against the Horn loosely guarded fragment. The Horn loosely guarded fragment subsumes classes of rules that are prevalent in ontology-based query answering, such as Horn ALCHOI and guarded existential rules. Additionally, we identify star queries and cloud queries, which using our procedure, can be answered against the loosely guarded fragment.

A Decision Procedure for Bit-Vector Arithmetic

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark W. Barrett ◽  
David L. Dill ◽  
Jeremy R. Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Bit Vector

An Automata-Theoretic Decision Procedure for Propositional Temporal Logic with Since and Until1

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-282
Author(s):  
Y.S. Ramakrishna ◽  
L.E. Moser ◽  
L.K. Dillon ◽  
P.M. Melliar-Smith ◽  
G. Kutty
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Hierarchical Abstraction ◽  
Soundness And Completeness

We present an automata-theoretic decision procedure for Since/Until Temporal Logic (SUTL), a linear-time propositional temporal logic with strong non-strict since and until operators. The logic, which is intended for specifying and reasoning about computer systems, employs neither next nor previous operators. Such operators obstruct the use of hierarchical abstraction and refinement and make reasoning about concurrency difficult. A proof of the soundness and completeness of the decision procedure is given, and its complexity is analyzed.

Deciding Clause Classes by Semantic Clash Resolution

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Alexander Leitsch
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Decision Procedures ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Complexity Measure ◽  
Syntactical Structure

It is investigated, how semantic clash resolution can be used to decide some classes of clause sets. Because semantic clash resolution is complete, the termination of the resolution procedure on a class Γ gives a decision procedure for Γ. Besides generalizing earlier results we investigate the relation between termination and clause complexity. For this purpose we define the general concept of atom complexity measure and show some general results about termination in terms of such measures. Moreover, rather than using fixed resolution refinements we define an algorithmic generator for decision procedures, which constructs appropriate semantic refinements out of the syntactical structure of the clause sets. This method is applied to the Bernays – Schönfinkel class, where it gives an efficient (resolution) decision procedure.

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