2000/05/08 by Stephan Tobies
Computer Science · #cs.LO #cs.AI #cs.CC #cs.DS
published as Journal of Logic and Computation, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp 85-106 2001
arxiv created 2000/05/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We present a PSPACE algorithm that decides satisfiability of the graded modal logic Gr(KR)---a natural extension of propositional modal logic KR by counting expressions---which plays an important role in the area of knowledge representation. The algorithm employs a tableaux approach and is the first known algorithm which meets the lower bound for the complexity of the problem. Thus, we exactly fix the complexity of the problem and refute an ExpTime-hardness conjecture. We extend the results to the logic Gr(K_(R ∩ I)), which augments Gr(KR) with inverse relations and intersection of accessibility relations. This establishes a kind of ``theoretical benchmark'' that all algorithmic approaches can be measured against.