一种新的类BAN逻辑模态语义模型——兼论类BAN逻辑的语法缺陷

由于类BAN逻辑缺乏明确而清晰的语义，其语法规则和推理的正确性就受到了质疑。本文定义了安全协议的计算模型，在此基础上定义了符合模态逻辑的类BAN逻辑“可能世界”语义模型，并从语义的角度证明了在该模型下的类BAN逻辑语法存在的缺陷，同时，指出了建立或改进类BAN逻辑的方向。     

Uniform semantic treatment of default and autoepistemic logics

We revisit the issue of epistemological and semantic foundations for autoepistemic and default logics, two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning. We develop a general semantic approach to autoepistemic and default logics that is based on the notion of a belief pair and that exploits the lattice structure of the collection of all belief pairs. For each logic, we introduce a monotone operator on the lattice of belief pairs. We then show that a whole family of semantics can be defined in a systematic and principled way in terms of fixpoints of this operator (or as fixpoints of certain closely related operators). Our approach elucidates fundamental constructive principles in which agents form their belief sets, and leads to approximation semantics for autoepistemic and default logics. It also allows us to establish a precise one-to-one correspondence between the family of semantics for default logic and the family of semantics for autoepistemic logic. The correspondence exploits the modal interpretation of a default proposed by Konolige. Our results establish conclusively that default logic can be viewed as a fragment of autoepistemic logic, a result that has been long anticipated. At the same time, they explain the source of the difficulty to formally relate the semantics of default extensions by Reiter and autoepistemic expansions by Moore. These two semantics occupy different locations in the corresponding families of semantics for default and autoepistemic logics.     

An Institutional View on Categorical Logic

We introduce a generic notion of categorical propositional logic and provide a construction of a preorder-enriched institution out of such a logic, following the Curry-Howard-Tait paradigm. The logics are speci ed as theories of a meta-logic within the logical framework LF such that institution comorphisms are obtained from theory morphisms of the meta-logic. We prove several logic-independent results including soundness and completeness theorems and instantiate our framework with a number of examples: classical, intuitionistic,linear and modal propositional logic.     

Elementary Definability and Completeness in General and Positive Modal Logic

The paper generalises Goldblatt's completeness proof for Lemmon–Scott formulas to various modal propositional logics without classical negation and without ex falso, up to positive modal logic, where conjunction and disjunction, andwhere necessity and possibility are respectively independent.Further the paper proves definability theorems for Lemmon–Scottformulas, which hold even in modal propositional languages without negation and without falsum. Both, the completeness theorem and the definability theoremmake use only of special constructions of relations,like relation products. No second order logic, no general frames are involved.     

Hybridizing a Logical Framework

Logical connectives familiar from the study of hybrid logic can be added to the logical framework LF, a constructive type theory of dependent functions. This extension turns out to be an attractively simple one, and maintains all the usual theoretical and algorithmic properties, for example decidability of type-checking. Moreover it results in a rich metalanguage for encoding and reasoning about a range of resource-sensitive substructural logics, analagous to the use of LF as a metalanguage for more ordinary logics.This family of applications of the language, contrary perhaps to expectations of how hybridized systems are typically used, does not require the usual modal connectives box and diamond, nor any internalization of a Kripke accessibility relation. It does, however, make essential use of distinctively hybrid connectives: universal quantifiation over worlds, truth of a proposition at a named world, and local binding of the current world. This supports the claim that the innovations of hybrid logic have independent value even apart from their traditional relationship to temporal and alethic modal logics.     

Coalgebraic semantics of modal logics: An overview

Coalgebras can be seen as a natural abstraction of Kripke frames. In the same sense, coalgebraic logics are generalised modal logics. In this paper, we give an overview of the basic tools, techniques and results that connect coalgebras and modal logic. We argue that coalgebras unify the semantics of a large range of different modal logics (such as probabilistic, graded, relational, conditional) and discuss unifying approaches to reasoning at this level of generality. We review languages defined in terms of the so-called cover modality, languages induced by predicate liftings as well as their common categorical abstraction, and present (abstract) results on completeness, expressiveness and complexity in these settings, both for basic languages as well as a number of extensions, such as hybrid languages and fixpoints.     

一类具有3种否定的模糊模态命题逻辑

对不同否定知识的认知、区分、表达、推理及计算是模糊知识研究处理的一个基础。具有矛盾否定、对立否定和中介否定的模糊命题逻辑形式系统FLCOM是一种能够完整描述模糊知识中的不同否定及其关系与规律的理论。基于FLCOM和中介模态命题逻辑MK,提出一类具有3种否定的模糊模态命题逻辑MKCOM及其扩充系统MTCOM,MS₄COM和MS₅COM;讨论了MKCOM的语义和语法解释,并证明了MKCOM的可靠性定理和完备性定理。     

纤维逻辑

形式逻辑已经从简单命题逻辑发展到比较复杂的模态逻辑系列。但是在主体环境下，已有逻辑的复杂性仍然不能有效刻画主体复杂的心智。有一些人工智能研究者根据主体心智的多重性，在模态逻辑中引入多种模态算子，并借此对主体加以刻画。但是原来的可能世界语义却难以容纳如此复杂的语法，出现了很多不合理的地方。本文首先介绍了新近出现的纤维逻辑（fibring logics），然后归纳了目前将此理论应用在主体BDI建模的研究现状，最后分析纤维逻辑的不足之处，讨论了其他可能的应用，并对今后的工作做了展望。     

A decidable first-order logic for knowledge representation

Decidable first-order logics with reasonable model-theoretic semantics have several benefits for knowledge representation. These logics have the expressive power of standard first order logic along with an inference algorithm that will always terminate, both important considerations for knowledge representation. Knowledge representation systems that include a faithful implementation of one of these logics can also use its model-theoretic semantics to provide meanings for the data they store. One such logic, a variant of a simple type of first-order relevance logic, is developed and its properties described. This logic, although extremely weak, does capture a non-trivial and well-motivated set of inferences that can be entrusted to a knowledge representation system.This is a revised and much extended version of a paper of the same name that appears in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Los Angeles, California, 1985.     

Representing model theory in a type-theoretical logical framework

In a broad sense, logic is the field of formal languages for knowledge and truth that have a formal semantics. It tends to be difficult to give a narrower definition because very different kinds of logics exist. One of the most fundamental contrasts is between the different methods of assigning semantics. Here two classes can be distinguished: model theoretical semantics based on a foundation of mathematics such as set theory, and proof theoretical semantics based on an inference system possibly formulated within a type theory.Logical frameworks have been developed to cope with the variety of available logics unifying the underlying ontological notions and providing a meta-theory to reason abstractly about logics. While these have been very successful, they have so far focused on either model or proof theoretical semantics. We contribute to a unified framework by showing how the type/proof theoretical Edinburgh Logical Framework (LF) can be applied to the representation of model theoretical logics.We give a comprehensive formal representation of first-order logic, covering both its proof and its model theoretical semantics as well as its soundness in LF. For the model theory, we have to represent the mathematical foundation itself in LF, and we provide two solutions for that. Firstly, we give a meta-language that is strong enough to represent the model theory while being simple enough to be treated as a fragment of untyped set theory. Secondly, we represent Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and show how it subsumes our meta-language. Specific models are represented as LF morphisms.All representations are given in and mechanically verified by the Twelf implementation of LF. Moreover, we use the Twelf module system to treat all connectives and quantifiers independently. Thus, individual connectives are available for reuse when representing other logics, and we obtain the first version of a feature library from which logics can be pieced together.Our results and methods are not restricted to first-order logic and scale to a wide variety of logical systems, thus demonstrating the feasibility of comprehensively formalizing large scale representation theorems in a logical framework.     

基于一阶模态逻辑的模糊推理

研究基于可信度的模糊一阶模态逻辑,给出了基于常域的模糊一阶模态逻辑语义以及推理形式系统描述.为有效进行模糊断言间的推理,考虑了模糊约束的概念.模糊约束是一个表达式,其中既有语法成分又包含意义信息.模糊推理形式系统中的基本对象是模糊约束,针对模糊约束引进可满足性概念,研究模糊约束可满足性相关性质.利用模糊约束的概念,模糊断言间的推理可以直接在语义环境下加以考虑,因此,以模糊约束为基本元素的模糊推理形式系统随之建立.主要分析新产生断言有效性与模糊约束集可满足性之间的关系,并在此基础上给出了模糊推理形式系统的推理规则.进一步的工作可探讨模糊推理形式系统的可靠性与完全性,建立推理过程的能行机制.研究结果可在人工智能和计算机科学等领域得以应用.     

On the relationship between annotated logic programs and nonmonotonic formalisms

Abstract

In the past we developed a semantics for a restricted annotated logic language for inheritance reasoning. Here we generalize it to annotated Horn logic programs. We first provide a formal account of the language, describe its semantics, and provide an interpreter written in Prolog for it. We then investigate its relationship to Belnap's 4-valued logic, Gelfond and Lifschitz's semantics for logic programs with negation, Brewka's prioritized default logics and other annotated logics due to Kifer et al.     

Stable and extension class theory for logic programs and default logics

The stable model semantics (cf. Gelfond and Lifschitz [1]) for logic programs suffers from the problem that programs may not always have stable models. Likewise, default theories suffer from the problem that they do not always have extensions. In such cases, both these formalisms for non-monotonic reasoning have an inadequate semantics. In this paper, we propose a novel idea-that of extension classes for default logics, and of stable classes for logic programs. It is shown that the extension class and stable class semantics extend the extension and stable model semantics respectively. This allows us to reason about inconsistent default theories, and about logic programs with inconsistent completions. Our work extends the results of Marek and Truszczynski [2] relating logic programming and default logics.     

Dynamic Scheduling and Fault-Tolerance: Specification and Verification

Considera distributed real-time program which is executed on a systemwith a limited set of hardware resources. Assume the programis required to satisfy some timing constraints, despite the occurrenceof anticipated hardware failures. For efficient use of resources,scheduling decisions must be taken at run-time, considering deadlines,the load and hardware failures. The paper demonstrates how toreason about such dynamically scheduled programs in the frameworkof a timed process algebra and modal logic. The algebra providesa uniform process encoding of programs, hardware and schedulers,with an operational semantics of a process depending on the assumptionsabout faults. The logic specifies the timing properties of aprocess and verifies them via this fault-affected semantics,establishing fault-tolerance. The approach lends itself to applicationof existing tools and results supporting reasoning in processalgebras and modal logics.     

Proof Theory for Casari's Comparative Logics

Comparative logics were introduced by Casari in the 1980s totreat aspects of comparative reasoning occurring in naturallanguage. In this article Gentzen systems are defined for theselogics by means of a special mix rule that combines calculifor various substructural logics with a hypersequent calculusfor Meyer and Slaney's Abelian logic. Cut-elimination is establishedfor all these systems, and as a consequence, a positive answeris given to an open problem on the decidability of the basiccomparative logic.     

A polynomial space construction of tree-like models for logics with local chains of modal connectives

The LA-logics (“logics with Local Agreement”) are polymodal logics defined semantically such that at any world of a model, the sets of successors for the different accessibility relations can be linearly ordered and the accessibility relations are equivalence relations. In a previous work, we have shown that every LA-logic defined with a finite set of modal indices has an NP-complete satisfiability problem. In this paper, we introduce a class of LA-logics with a countably infinite set of modal indices and we show that the satisfiability problem is PSPACE-complete for every logic of such a class. The upper bound is shown by exhibiting a tree structure of the models. This allows us to establish a surprising correspondence between the modal depth of formulae and the number of occurrences of distinct modal connectives. More importantly, as a consequence, we can show the PSPACE-completeness of Gargov's logic DALLA and Nakamura's logic LGM restricted to modal indices that are rational numbers, for which the computational complexity characterization has been open until now. These logics are known to belong to the class of information logics and fuzzy modal logics, respectively.     

Expressivity of coalgebraic modal logic: The limits and beyond

Modal logic has a good claim to being the logic of choice for describing the reactive behaviour of systems modelled as coalgebras. Logics with modal operators obtained from so-called predicate liftings have been shown to be invariant under behavioural equivalence. Expressivity results stating that, conversely, logically indistinguishable states are behaviourally equivalent depend on the existence of separating sets of predicate liftings for the signature functor at hand. Here, we provide a classification result for predicate liftings which leads to an easy criterion for the existence of such separating sets, and we give simple examples of functors that fail to admit expressive normal or monotone modal logics, respectively, or in fact an expressive (unary) modal logic at all. We then move on to polyadic modal logic, where modal operators may take more than one argument formula. We show that every accessible functor admits an expressive polyadic modal logic. Moreover, expressive polyadic modal logics are, unlike unary modal logics, compositional.     

智能主体的信念认知时态子结构逻辑模型*

智能主体获取信念的途径主要有两种：一种为他省,通过外界交互,从其他主体获取信息;另一种为自省,通过自己的历史数据库获取相关知识。对于主体信念的描述与刻画,两种途径缺一不可,但当前的BDI理论模型中较多地为他省系统,没有做到两者相结合。其次,在当前的许多理论模型中,通常使用的是二值逻辑、经典模态逻辑或其变形系统,使得相应的逻辑系统普遍存在逻辑全知和粗精度刻画等问题。针对上述问题进行了相关研究,采用了认知时态子结构逻辑建模的方法,表达了智能主体获得“双省”信念的方式,针对其建立了相应的逻辑系统BSoET。