Non-iterative Modal Resolution Calculi

Dirk Pattinson*, Cláudia Nalon

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Abstract

Non-monotonic modal logics are typically interpreted over neighbourhood frames. For unary operators, this is just a set of worlds, together with an endofunction on predicates (subsets of worlds). It is known that all systems of not necessarily monotonic modal logics that are axiomatised by formulae of modal rank at most one (non-iterative modal logics) are Kripke-complete over neighbourhood semantics. In this paper, we give a uniform construction to obtain complete resolution calculi for all non-iterative logics. We show completeness for generative calculi (where new clauses with new literals are added to the clause set) by means of a canonical model construction. We then define absorptive calculi (where new clauses are generated by generalised resolution rules) and establish completeness by translating between generative and absorptive calculi. Instances of our construction re-prove completeness for already known calculi, but also give rise to a number of previously unknown complete calculi.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomated Reasoning - 12th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2024, Proceedings
EditorsChristoph Benzmüller, Marijn J. H. Heule, Renate A. Schmidt
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages97-113
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783031635007
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2024 - Nancy, France
Duration: 3 Jul 20246 Jul 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14740 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2024
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNancy
Period3/07/246/07/24

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