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CORR
2010
Springer
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The complexity of positive first-order logic without equality
We study the complexity of evaluating positive equality-free sentences of first-order (FO) logic over a fixed, finite structure B. This may be seen as a natural generalisation of ...
Florent R. Madelaine, Barnaby Martin
CORR
2008
Springer
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Logics for the Relational Syllogistic
The Aristotelian syllogistic cannot account for the validity of certain inferences involving relational facts. In this paper, we investigate the prospects for providing a relationa...
Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Lawrence S. Moss
APAL
2005
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Logical aspects of Cayley-graphs: the group case
Abstract. We prove that a finitely generated group is context-free whenever its Cayleygraph has a decidable monadic second-order theory. Hence, by the seminal work of Muller and Sc...
Dietrich Kuske, Markus Lohrey
JANCL
2007
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Dynamic logic of preference upgrade
ABSTRACT. Statements not only update our current knowledge, but also have other dynamic effects. In particular, suggestions or commands ‘upgrade’ our preferences by changing th...
Johan van Benthem, Fenrong Liu
JAR
2007
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Reasoning in Description Logics by a Reduction to Disjunctive Datalog
As applications of description logics proliferate, efficient reasoning with knowledge bases containing many assertions becomes ever more important. For such cases, we developed a n...
Ullrich Hustadt, Boris Motik, Ulrike Sattler