Combining spatial and temporal logics: expressiveness vs. complexity
Gabelaia, D. and Kontchakov, Roman and Kurucz, A. and Wolter, F. and Zakharyaschev, Michael (2005) Combining spatial and temporal logics: expressiveness vs. complexity. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 23 , pp. 167-243. ISSN 1076-9757.
Abstract
In this paper, we construct and investigate a hierarchy of spatio-temporal formalisms that result from various combinations of propositional spatial and temporal logics such as the propositional temporal logic PTL, the spatial logics RCC-8, BRCC-8, S4u and their fragments. The obtained results give a clear picture of the trade-off between expressiveness and computational realisability within the hierarchy. We demonstrate how different combining principles as well as spatial and temporal primitives can produce NP-, PSPACE-, EXPSPACE-, 2EXPSPACE-complete, and even undecidable spatio-temporal logics out of components that are at most NP- or PSPACE-complete.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | artificial intelligence |
School: | School of Business, Economics & Informatics > Computer Science and Information Systems |
Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
Date Deposited: | 30 May 2013 12:38 |
Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2016 12:02 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7097 |
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