A decidable spatial logic with cone-shaped cardinal directions

  • Authors:
  • Angelo Montanari;Gabriele Puppis;Pietro Sala

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Udine University, Italy;Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, England;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Udine University, Italy

  • Venue:
  • CSL'09/EACSL'09 Proceedings of the 23rd CSL international conference and 18th EACSL Annual conference on Computer science logic
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce a spatial modal logic based on cone-shaped cardinal directions over the rational plane and we prove that, unlike projection-based ones, such as, for instance, Compass Logic, its satisfiability problem is decidable (PSPACE-complete). We also show that it is expressive enough to subsume meaningful interval temporal logics, thus generalizing previous results in the literature, e.g., its decidability implies that of the subinterval/superinterval temporal logic interpreted over the rational line.