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IJPRAI
2000
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13 years 5 months ago
Knowledge Base Reformation: Preparing First-Order Theories for Efficient Propositional Reasoning
We present an approach to knowledge compilation that transforms a function-free first-order Horn knowledge base to propositional logic. This form of compilation is important since...
Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Gerhard Schur...
CADE
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Principle for Incorporating Axioms into the First-Order Translation of Modal Formulae
In this paper we present a translation principle, called the axiomatic translation, for reducing propositional modal logics with background theories, including triangular propertie...
Renate A. Schmidt, Ullrich Hustadt
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Efficiently Simulating Higher-Order Arithmetic by a First-Order Theory Modulo
In deduction modulo, a theory is not represented by a set of axioms but by a congruence on propositions modulo which the inference rules of standard deductive systems--such as for ...
Guillaume Burel
KR
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A First-Order Theory of Communicating First-Order Formulas
This paper presents a theory of informative communications among agents that allows a speaker to communicate to a hearer truths about the state of the world; the occurrence of eve...
Ernest Davis
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 8 days ago
Representing First-Order Causal Theories by Logic Programs
Nonmonotonic causal logic, introduced by Norman McCain and Hudson Turner, became a basis for the semantics of several expressive action languages. McCain’s embedding of definit...
Paolo Ferraris, Joohyung Lee, Yuliya Lierler, Vlad...