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On the Complexity of Elementary Modal Logics
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25th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2008)
Series: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)
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- Publication Date: 2008-02-06
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Edith Hemaspaandra and Henning Schnoor. On the Complexity of Elementary Modal Logics. In 25th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 1, pp. 349-360, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1356
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Modal logics are widely used in computer science. The complexity of modal satisfiability problems has been investigated since the 1970s, usually proving results on a case-by-case basis. We prove a very general classification for a wide class of relevant logics: Many important subclasses of modal logics can be obtained by restricting the allowed models with first-order Horn formulas. We show that the satisfiability problem for each of these logics is either NP-complete or PSPACE-hard, and exhibit a simple classification criterion. Further, we prove matching PSPACE upper bounds for many of the PSPACE-hard logics.
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