• DocumentCode
    2893700
  • Title

    Right Propositional Neighborhood Logic over Natural Numbers with Integer Constraints for Interval Lengths

  • Author

    Bresolin, Davide ; Goranko, Valentin ; Montanari, Angelo ; Sciavicco, Guido

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Verona, Verona, Italy
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    23-27 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    240
  • Lastpage
    249
  • Abstract
    Interval temporal logics are based on interval structures over linearly (or partially) ordered domains, where time intervals, rather than time instants, are the primitive ontological entities. In this paper we introduce and study Right Propositional Neighborhood Logic over natural numbers with integer constraints for interval lengths, which is a propositional interval temporal logic featuring a modality for the ´right neighborhood´ relation between intervals and explicit integer constraints for interval lengths. We prove that it has the bounded model property with respect to ultimately periodic models and is therefore decidable. In addition, we provide an EXP SPACE procedure for satisfiability checking and we prove EXPSPACE-hardness by a reduction from the exponential corridor tiling problem.
  • Keywords
    computability; temporal logic; EXPSPACE hardness; exponential corridor tiling problem; integer constraint; interval length; interval structure; interval temporal logic; primitive ontological entity; propositional interval temporal logic; right propositional neighborhood logic; satisfiability checking; time interval; Artificial intelligence; Calculus; Computer science; Constraint theory; Databases; Logic; Natural language processing; Ontologies; Real time systems; Software engineering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering and Formal Methods, 2009 Seventh IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hanoi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3870-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SEFM.2009.36
  • Filename
    5368086