Many-Dimensional Modal Logics: Theory and Applications

A. Kurucz (King's College, London, UK),F. Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK),M. Zakharyaschev (King's College, London, UK),Dov M. Gabbay (Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London.)

Many-Dimensional Modal Logics: Theory and Applications
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Elsevier Science & Technology
Country
United States
Published
21 October 2003
Pages
766
ISBN
9780444508263

Many-Dimensional Modal Logics: Theory and Applications

A. Kurucz (King's College, London, UK),F. Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK),M. Zakharyaschev (King's College, London, UK),Dov M. Gabbay (Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London.)

Modal logics, originally conceived in philosophy, have recently found many applications in computer science, artificial intelligence, the foundations of mathematics, linguistics and other disciplines. Celebrated for their good computational behaviour, modal logics are used as effective formalisms for talking about time, space, knowledge, beliefs, actions, obligations and provability. However, the nice computational properties can drastically change if we combine some of these formalisms into a many-dimensional system, say, to reason about knowledge bases developing in time or moving objects. To study the computational behaviour of many-dimensional modal logics is the main aim of this book. On the one hand, it is concerned with providing a solid mathematical foundation for this discipline, while on the other hand, it shows that many seemingly different applied many-dimensional systems (e.g., multi-agent systems, description logics with epistemic, temporal and dynamic operators, spatio-temporal logics, etc.) fit in perfectly with this theoretical framework, and so their computational behaviour can be analysed using the developed machinery. The genre of the book can be defined as a research monograph. It brings the reader to the front line of current research in the field by showing both recent achievements and directions of future investigations (in particular, multiple open problems). On the other hand, well-known results from modal and first-order logic are formulated without proofs and supplied with references to accessible sources.

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