Analytic tableaux calculi for KLM logics of nonmonotonic reasoning

  • Authors:
  • Laura Giordano;Valentina Gliozzi;Nicola Olivetti;Gian Luca Pozzato

  • Affiliations:
  • Università del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Alessandria, Italy;Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy;Université Paul Cézanne, Marseille, France;Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present tableau calculi for the logics of nonmonotonic reasoning defined by Kraus, Lehmann and Magidor (KLM). We give a tableau proof procedure for all KLM logics, namely preferential, loop-cumulative, cumulative, and rational logics. Our calculi are obtained by introducing suitable modalities to interpret conditional assertions. We provide a decision procedure for the logics considered and we study their complexity.