{"title":"Basic paramodulation and decidable theories","authors":"R. Nieuwenhuis","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561464","url":null,"abstract":"We prove that for sets of Horn clauses saturated under basic paramodulation, the word and unifiability problems are in NP, and the number of minimal unifiers is simply exponential (i). For Horn sets saturated wrt. a special ordering under the more restrictive inference rule of basic superposition, the word and unifiability problems are still decidable and unification is finitary (ii). We define standard theories, which include and significantly extend shallow theories. Standard presentations can be finitely closed under superposition and result (ii) applies. Generalizing shallow theories to the Horn case, we obtain (two versions of) a language we call Catalog, a natural extension of Datalog to include functions and equality. The closure under paramodulation is finite for Catalog sets, hence (i) applies. Since for shallow sets this closure is even polynomial, shallow unifiability is in NP, which is optimal: unifiability in ground theories is already NP-hard. We even go beyond: the shallow word problem is tractable and for Catalog sets S we prove decidability of the full first-order theory of T(F)/=/sub s/.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"276 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116119045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntactic considerations on recursive types","authors":"M. Abadi, M. Fiore","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561324","url":null,"abstract":"We study recursive types from a syntactic perspective. In particular, we compare the formulations of recursive types that are used in programming languages and formal systems. Our main tool is a new syntactic explanation of type expressions as functors. We also introduce a simple logic for programs with recursive types in which we carry out our proofs.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132007153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A generalization of Fagin's theorem","authors":"J. A. Medina, N. Immerman","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561298","url":null,"abstract":"Fagin's theorem characterizes NP as the set of decision problems that are expressible as second-order existential sentences, i.e., in the form (/spl exist//spl Pi/)/spl phi/, where /spl Pi/ is a new predicate symbol, and /spl phi/ is first-order. In the presence of a successor relation, /spl phi/ may be assumed to be universal, i.e., /spl phi//spl equiv/(/spl forall/x~)/spl alpha/ where /spl alpha/ is quantifier-free. The PCP theorem characterizes NP as the set of problems that may be proved in a way that can be checked by probabilistic verifiers using O(log n) random bits and reading O(1) bits of the proof: NP=PCP[log n, 1]. Combining these theorems, we show that every problem D/spl isin/NP may be transformed in polynomial time to an algebraic version D/spl circ//spl isin/NP such that D/spl circ/ consists of the set of structures satisfying a second-order existential formula of the form (/spl exist//spl Pi/)(R/spl tilde/x~)/spl alpha/ where R/spl tilde/ is a majority quantifier-the dual of the R quantifier in the definition of RP-and /spl alpha/ is quantifier-free. This is a generalization of Fagin's theorem and is equivalent to the PCP theorem.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117339586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simultaneous rigid E-unification and related algorithmic problems","authors":"A. Degtyarev, Y. Matiyasevich, A. Voronkov","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561466","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of simultaneous rigid E-unification was introduced in 1987 in the area of automated theorem proving with equality in sequent-based methods, for example the connection method or the tableau method. Recently, simultaneous rigid E-unification was shown undecidable. Despite the importance of this notion, for example in theorem proving in intuitionistic logic, very little is known of its decidable fragments. We prove decidability results for fragments of monadic simultaneous rigid E-unification and show the connections between this notion and some algorithmic problems of logic and computer science.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115982755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Locally linear time temporal logic","authors":"R. Ramanujam","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561311","url":null,"abstract":"We study linear time temporal logics of multiple agents, where the temporal modalities are local. These modalities not only refer to local next-instants and local eventuality, but also global views of agents at any local instant, which are updated due to communication from other agents. Thus agents also reason about the future, present and past of other agents in the system. The models for these logics are simple: runs of networks of synchronizing automata. Problems like gossiping in interconnection networks am naturally described in the logics proposed here. We present solutions to the satisfiability and model checking problems for these logics. Further since formulas are insensitive to different interleavings of runs, partial order based verification methods become applicable for properties described in these logics.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"33 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120874925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the expressive power of simply typed and let-polymorphic lambda calculi","authors":"Gerd G. Hillebrand, P. Kanellakis","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561337","url":null,"abstract":"We present a functional framework for descriptive computational complexity, in which the Regular, First-order, Ptime, Pspace, k-Exptime, k-Expspace (k/spl ges/1), and Elementary sets have syntactic characterizations. In this framework, typed lambda terms represent inputs and outputs as well as programs. The lambda calculi describing the above computational complexity classes are simply or let-polymorphically typed with functionalities of fixed order. They consist of: order 0 atomic constants, order 1 equality among these constants, variables, application, and abstraction. Increasing functionality order by one for these languages corresponds to increasing the computational complexity by one alternation. This exact correspondence is established using a semantic evaluation of languages for each fixed order, which is the primary technical contribution of this paper.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"269 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124365707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The essence of parallel Algol","authors":"S. Brookes","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561315","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a parallel Algol-like language, combining the /spl lambda/-calculus with shared-variable parallelism. We provide a denotational semantics for this language, simultaneously adapting the possible worlds model of Reynolds and Oles (1981, 1982) to the parallel setting and generalizing the \"transition traces\" model to the procedural setting. This semantics supports reasoning about safety and liveness properties of parallel programs, and validates a number of natural laws of program equivalence based on noninterference properties of local variables. We also provide a relationally parametric semantics, to permit reasoning about relation-preserving properties of programs, and adapting work of O'Hearn and Tennent (1995) to the parallel setting. This semantics supports standard methods of reasoning about representational independence. The clean design of the programming language and its semantics supports the orthogonality of procedures and shared-variable parallelism.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131264816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A linear logical framework","authors":"I. Cervesato, F. Pfenning","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561339","url":null,"abstract":"We present the linear type theory LLF as the formal basis for a conservative extension of the LF logical framework. LLF combines the expressive power of dependent types with linear logic to permit the natural and concise representation of a whole new class of deductive systems, namely those dealing with state. As an example we encode a version of Mini-ML with references including its type system, its operational semantics, and a proof of type preservation. Another example is the encoding of a sequent calculus for classical linear logic and its cut elimination theorem. LLF can also be given an operational interpretation as a logic programming language under which the representations above can be used for type inference, evaluation and cut-elimination.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"80 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132478514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fully abstract domain model for the /spl pi/-calculus","authors":"I. Stark","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561301","url":null,"abstract":"Abramsky's domain equation for bisimulation and the author's categorical models for names combine to give a domain-theoretic model for the /spl pi/-calculus. This is set in a functor category which provides a syntax-free interpretation of fresh names, privacy visibility and non-interference between processes. The model is fully abstract for strong late bisimilarity and equivalence (bisimilarity under all name substitutions).","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130532397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tarskian set constraints","authors":"R. Givan, David A. McAllester, C. Witty, D. Kozen","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1996.561313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1996.561313","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate set constraints over set expressions with Tarskian functional and relational operations. Unlike the Herbrand constructor symbols used in recent set constraint formalisms, the meaning of a Tarskian function symbol is interpreted in an arbitrary first order structure. We show that satisfiability of Tarskian set constraints is decidable in nondeterministic doubly exponential time. We also give complexity results and open problems for various extensions of the language.","PeriodicalId":382663,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 11th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123179500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}