Global and Local Graph Modifiers

  • Authors:
  • Guillaume Aucher;Philippe Balbiani;Luis Fariòas del Cerro;Andreas Herzig

  • Affiliations:
  • IRIT-LILaC, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and Dept. of CS, Otago University, Dunedin, NZ;IRIT-LILaC, CNRS, Toulouse, France;IRIT-LILaC, CNRS, Toulouse, France;IRIT-LILaC, CNRS, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We define two modal logics that allow to reason about modifications of graphs. Both have a universal modal operator. The first one only involves global modifications (of some state label, or of some edge label) everywhere in the graph. The second one also allows for modifications that are local to states. The global version generalizes logics of public announcements and public assignments, as well as a logic of preference modification introduced by van Benthem et Liu. By means of reduction axioms we show that it is just as expressive as the underlying logic without global modifiers. We then show that adding local modifiers dramatically increases the power of the logic: the logic of global and local modifiers is undecidable. We finally study its relation with hybrid logic with binder.