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IANDC
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Expressiveness and complexity of graph logic
We investigate the complexity and expressive power of a spatial logic for reasoning about graphs. This logic was previously introduced by Cardelli, Gardner and Ghelli, and provide...
Anuj Dawar, Philippa Gardner, Giorgio Ghelli
KR
1991
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Meta-Reasoning in Executable Temporal Logic
Temporal logic can be used as a programming language. If temporal formulae are represented in the form of an implication where the antecedent refers to the past, and the consequen...
Howard Barringer, Michael Fisher, Dov M. Gabbay, A...
DSOM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Approach to Understanding Policy Based on Autonomy and Voluntary Cooperation
Presently, there is no satisfactory model for dealing with political autonomy of agents in policy based management. A theory of atomic policy units called ‘promises’ is therefo...
Mark Burgess
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A logic for strategic reasoning
Rational strategic reasoning is the process whereby an agent reasons about the best strategy to adopt in a given multi-agent scenario, taking into account the likely behaviour of ...
Wiebe van der Hoek, Wojciech Jamroga, Michael Wool...
FOSSACS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Logical Reasoning for Higher-Order Functions with Local State
Abstract. We introduce an extension of Hoare logic for call-by-value higherorder functions with ML-like local reference generation. Local references may be generated dynamically an...
Nobuko Yoshida, Kohei Honda, Martin Berger