by Lutz Schröder, Dirk Pattinson and Daniel Hausmann
Abstract:
Conditional logics capture default entailment in a modal framework in which non-monotonic implication becomes a first-class citizen, and in particular can be negated and nested. There is a wide range of axiomatizations of conditionals in the literature, from weak systems such as the basic conditional logic CK, which allows only for equivalent exchange of conditional antecedents, to strong systems such as Burgess' system S, which imposes the full Kraus-Lehmann-Magidor properties of preferential logic. While tableaux systems implementing the actual complexity of the logic at hand have recently been developed for several weak systems, strong systems including in particular disjunction elimination or cautious monotonicity have so far eluded such efforts; previous results for strong systems are limited to semantics-based decision procedures and completeness proofs for Hilbert-style axiomatizations. Here, we present tableaux systems of optimal complexity PSpace for several strong axiom systems in conditional logic, including system S; the arising decision procedure for system S is implemented in the generic reasoning tool CoLoSS.
Reference:
Lutz Schröder, Dirk Pattinson and Daniel Hausmann: Optimal Tableaux for Conditional Logics with Cautious Monotonicity, In Michael Wooldridge, ed.: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 215, pp. 707–712, IOS Press, 2010. [preprint]
Bibtex Entry:
@InProceedings{SchroderEA10,
author = {Lutz Schr{\"o}der and Dirk Pattinson and Daniel Hausmann},
title = {Optimal Tableaux for Conditional Logics with Cautious Monotonicity},
year = {2010},
editor = {Michael Wooldridge},
booktitle = {European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010)},
publisher = {IOS Press},
series = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications},
volume = {215},
pages = {707-712},
keywords = {Conditional logic coalgebra tableaux system S cautious monotony},
comment = { <a href = "http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~schroeder/papers/CondTableaux.pdf"> [preprint] </a>},
abstract = { Conditional logics capture default entailment in a modal framework
in which non-monotonic implication becomes a first-class citizen, and
in particular can be negated and nested. There is a wide range of
axiomatizations of conditionals in the literature, from weak systems
such as the basic conditional logic CK, which allows only for
equivalent exchange of conditional antecedents, to strong systems
such as Burgess' system S, which imposes the full
Kraus-Lehmann-Magidor properties of preferential logic. While
tableaux systems implementing the actual complexity of the logic at
hand have recently been developed for several weak systems, strong
systems including in particular disjunction elimination or cautious
monotonicity have so far eluded such efforts; previous results for
strong systems are limited to semantics-based decision procedures
and completeness proofs for Hilbert-style axiomatizations. Here, we
present tableaux systems of optimal complexity PSpace for several
strong axiom systems in conditional logic, including system S; the
arising decision procedure for system S is implemented in the
generic reasoning tool CoLoSS.
},
}