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On p-optimal proof systems and logics for PTIME
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More on Descriptive Complexity of Second-Order HORN Logics
This paper concerns Gradel's question asked in 1992: whether all problems
which are in PTIME and closed under substructures are definable in second-order
HORN logic SO-HORN. We introduce revisions of SO-HORN and DATALOG by adding
first-order universal quantifiers over the second-order atoms in the bodies of
HORN clauses and DATALOG rules. We show that both logics are as expressive as
FO(LFP), the least fixed point logic. We also prove that FO(LFP) can not define
all of the problems that are in PTIME and closed under substructures. As a
corollary, we answer Gradel's question negatively
Quantified CTL: Expressiveness and Complexity
While it was defined long ago, the extension of CTL with quantification over
atomic propositions has never been studied extensively. Considering two
different semantics (depending whether propositional quantification refers to
the Kripke structure or to its unwinding tree), we study its expressiveness
(showing in particular that QCTL coincides with Monadic Second-Order Logic for
both semantics) and characterise the complexity of its model-checking and
satisfiability problems, depending on the number of nested propositional
quantifiers (showing that the structure semantics populates the polynomial
hierarchy while the tree semantics populates the exponential hierarchy)
Definability of linear equation systems over groups and rings
Motivated by the quest for a logic for PTIME and recent insights that the
descriptive complexity of problems from linear algebra is a crucial aspect of
this problem, we study the solvability of linear equation systems over finite
groups and rings from the viewpoint of logical (inter-)definability. All
problems that we consider are decidable in polynomial time, but not expressible
in fixed-point logic with counting. They also provide natural candidates for a
separation of polynomial time from rank logics, which extend fixed-point logics
by operators for determining the rank of definable matrices and which are
sufficient for solvability problems over fields. Based on the structure theory
of finite rings, we establish logical reductions among various solvability
problems. Our results indicate that all solvability problems for linear
equation systems that separate fixed-point logic with counting from PTIME can
be reduced to solvability over commutative rings. Moreover, we prove closure
properties for classes of queries that reduce to solvability over rings, which
provides normal forms for logics extended with solvability operators. We
conclude by studying the extent to which fixed-point logic with counting can
express problems in linear algebra over finite commutative rings, generalising
known results on the logical definability of linear-algebraic problems over
finite fields
Worst-case Optimal Query Answering for Greedy Sets of Existential Rules and Their Subclasses
The need for an ontological layer on top of data, associated with advanced
reasoning mechanisms able to exploit the semantics encoded in ontologies, has
been acknowledged both in the database and knowledge representation
communities. We focus in this paper on the ontological query answering problem,
which consists of querying data while taking ontological knowledge into
account. More specifically, we establish complexities of the conjunctive query
entailment problem for classes of existential rules (also called
tuple-generating dependencies, Datalog+/- rules, or forall-exists-rules. Our
contribution is twofold. First, we introduce the class of greedy
bounded-treewidth sets (gbts) of rules, which covers guarded rules, and their
most well-known generalizations. We provide a generic algorithm for query
entailment under gbts, which is worst-case optimal for combined complexity with
or without bounded predicate arity, as well as for data complexity and query
complexity. Secondly, we classify several gbts classes, whose complexity was
unknown, with respect to combined complexity (with both unbounded and bounded
predicate arity) and data complexity to obtain a comprehensive picture of the
complexity of existential rule fragments that are based on diverse guardedness
notions. Upper bounds are provided by showing that the proposed algorithm is
optimal for all of them
Preliminary results on Ontology-based Open Data Publishing
Despite the current interest in Open Data publishing, a formal and
comprehensive methodology supporting an organization in deciding which data to
publish and carrying out precise procedures for publishing high-quality data,
is still missing. In this paper we argue that the Ontology-based Data
Management paradigm can provide a formal basis for a principled approach to
publish high quality, semantically annotated Open Data. We describe two main
approaches to using an ontology for this endeavor, and then we present some
technical results on one of the approaches, called bottom-up, where the
specification of the data to be published is given in terms of the sources, and
specific techniques allow deriving suitable annotations for interpreting the
published data under the light of the ontology
On the Complexity of ATL and ATL* Module Checking
Module checking has been introduced in late 1990s to verify open systems,
i.e., systems whose behavior depends on the continuous interaction with the
environment. Classically, module checking has been investigated with respect to
specifications given as CTL and CTL* formulas. Recently, it has been shown that
CTL (resp., CTL*) module checking offers a distinctly different perspective
from the better-known problem of ATL (resp., ATL*) model checking. In
particular, ATL (resp., ATL*) module checking strictly enhances the
expressiveness of both CTL (resp., CTL*) module checking and ATL (resp. ATL*)
model checking. In this paper, we provide asymptotically optimal bounds on the
computational cost of module checking against ATL and ATL*, whose upper bounds
are based on an automata-theoretic approach. We show that module-checking for
ATL is EXPTIME-complete, which is the same complexity of module checking
against CTL. On the other hand, ATL* module checking turns out to be
3EXPTIME-complete, hence exponentially harder than CTL* module checking.Comment: In Proceedings GandALF 2017, arXiv:1709.0176
Horn rewritability vs PTime query evaluation for description logic TBoxes
We study the following question: if τ is a TBox that is formulated in an expressive DL L and all CQs can be evaluated in PTime w.r.t. τ, can τ be replaced by a TBox τ' that is formulated in the Horn-fragment of L and such that for all CQs and ABoxes, the answers w.r.t. τ and τ' coincide? Our main results are that this is indeed the case when L is the set of ALCHI or ALCIF TBoxes of quantifier depth 1 (which covers the majority of such TBoxes), but not for ALCHIF and ALCQ TBoxes of depth 1
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