Complexity and Succinctness Issues for Linear-Time Hybrid Logics

  • Authors:
  • Laura Bozzelli;Ruggero Lanotte

  • Affiliations:
  • Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy 22100;Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy 22100

  • Venue:
  • JELIA '08 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Full linear-time hybrid logic (HL) is a non-elementary and equally expressive extension of standard LTL+ past obtained by adding the well-known binder operators 茂戮驴 and 茂戮驴. We investigate complexity and succinctness issues for HLin terms of the number of variables and nesting depth of binder modalities. First, we present directautomata-theoretic decision procedures for satisfiability and model-checking of HL, which require space of exponential height equal to the nesting depth of binder modalities. The proposed algorithms are proved to be asymptotically optimal by providing matching lower bounds. Second, we show that for the one-variable fragment of HL, the considered problems are elementary and, precisely, Expspace-complete. Finally, we show that for all 0 ≤ hk, there is a succinctness gap between the fragments HLkand HLhwith binder nesting depth at most kand h, respectively, of exponential height equal to k茂戮驴 h.