학술논문

Reasoning about actions in dynamic linear time temporal logic.
Document Type
Article
Source
Logic Journal of the IGPL. 2001, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p273-288. 16p.
Subject
*Logic
Reasoning
Thought & thinking
Philosophy
Philosophy of language
Language
ISSN
1367-0751
Abstract
In this paper we present a theory for reasoning about actions which is based on Dynamic Linear Time Temporal Logic (DLTL). DLTL is a simple extension of propositional temporal logic of linear time in which regular programs of propositional dynamic logic can be used for indexing temporal modalities. The action theory we define allows to reason with incomplete initial states, to do postdiction and to deal with ramifications and with nondeterministic actions, which are captured by possibly alternative extensions (temporal models). The expressiveness of temporal logic is exploited to enhance the action language by allowing the definition of general temporal constraints as well as complex actions in the specification of the domain description. We show that the temporal projection problem and the planning problem can be modelled as satisfiability problems in DLTL. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]