Abstract. This paper presents the language and software environment LEADSTO that has been developed to model and simulate the dynamics of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in terms of both qualitative and quantitative concepts. The LEADSTO language is a declarative order-sorted temporal language, extended with quantitative means. Dynamics of MAS can be modelled by specifying the direct temporal dependencies between state properties in successive states. Based on the LEADSTO language, a software environment was developed that performs simulations of LEADSTO specifications, generates simulation traces for further analysis, and constructs visual representations of traces. The approach proved its value in a number of projects within different domains of MAS research. 1

The interpolation property and Robinson's consistency property are important tools for applying logic to software engineering. We provide a uniform technique for proving the Interpolation Property, using the notion of bisimulation. For modal logics, this leads to simple, easy-to-check conditions on the logic which imply interpolation. We apply this result to fibering of modal logics and to modal logics of knowledge and belief.

Traditional rst order predicate logic is known to be designed for representing and manipulating static knowledge (e.g. mathematical theories). So are manyof its applications. Knowledge representation systems based on concept description logics are not exceptions.

This paper is about the W3C standard node-addressing language for XML documents, called XPath. XPath is still under development. Version 2.0 appeared in 2001 while the theoretical foundations of Version 1.0 (dating from 1998) are still being widely studied. The paper aims at bringing XPath to a "stable fixed point" in its development: a version which is expressively complete, still manageable computationally, with a user-friendly syntax and a natural semantics.

XPath is the W3C--standard node addressing language for XML documents. XPath is still under development and its technical aspects are intensively studied. What is missing at present is a clear characterization of the expressive power of XPath, be it either semantical or with reference to some well established existing (logical) formalism. Core XPath (the logical core of XPath 1.0 defined by Gottlob et al.) cannot express queries with conditional paths as exemplified by "do a child step, while test is true at the resulting node." In a first-order complete extension of Core XPath, such queries are expressible. We add conditional axis relations to Core XPath and show that the resulting language, called conditional XPath, is equally expressive as first-order logic when interpreted on ordered trees. Both the result, the extended XPath language, and the proof are closely related to temporal logic. Specifically, while Core XPath may be viewed as a simple temporal logic, conditional XPath extends this with (counterparts of) the since and until operators.

This paper introduces a new logical formalism, intended for temporal conceptual modelling, as a natural combination of the well-known description logic DLR and point-based linear temporal logic with Since and Until. We define a query language (where queries are non-recursive Datalog programs and atoms are complex DLR US expressions) and investigate the problem of checking query containment under the constraints defined by DLR US conceptual schemas, as well as the problems of schema satisfiability and logical implication. Although it is shown that reasoning in full DLR US is undecidable, we identify the decidable (in a sense, maximal) fragment DLR - US by allowing applications of temporal operators to formulas and entities only (but not to relation expressions) . We obtain the following hierarchy of complexity results: (a) reasoning in DLR - US with atomic formulas is EXPTIME-complete, (b) satisfiability and logical implication of arbitrary DLR - US formulas is EXPSPACE-complete, and (c) the problem of checking query containment of non-recursive Datalog queries under DLR - US constraints is decidable in 2EXPTIME. 1 1

A basic result concerning LTL, the propositional temporal logic of linear time, is that it is expressively complete; it is equal in expressive power to the first order theory of sequences. We present here a smooth extension of this result to the class of partial orders known as Mazurkiewicz traces. These partial orders arise in a variety of contexts in concurrency theory and they provide the conceptual basis for many of the partial order reduction methods that have been developed in connection with LTL-specifications. We show that LTrL, our linear time temporal logic, is equal in expressive power to the first order theory of traces when interpreted over (finite and) infinite traces. This result fills a prominent gap in the existing logical theory of infinite traces. LTrL also constitutes a characterisation of the so called trace consistent (robust) LTL-specifications. These are specifications expressed as LTL formulas that do not distinguish between different linearisations of the same trace and hence are amenable to partial order reduction methods.

The logic of bunched implications, BI, is a substructural system which freely combines an additive (intuitionistic) and a multiplicative (linear) implication via bunches (contexts with two combining operations, one which admits Weakening and Contraction and one which does not). BI may be seen to arise from two main perspectives. On the one hand, from proof-theoretic or categorical concerns and, on the other, from a possible-worlds semantics based on preordered (commutative) monoids. This semantics may be motivated from a basic model of the notion of resource. We explain BI's proof-theoretic, categorical and semantic origins. We discuss in detail the question of completeness, explaining the essential distinction between BI with and without ? (the unit of _). We give an extensive discussion of BI as a semantically based logic of resources, giving concrete models based on Petri nets, ambients, computer memory, logic programming, and money.

The system presented in this paper allows automatic and efficient translation of integrity constraints formulated in past temporal logic into rules of the Starburst DBMS. During the compilation the set of constraints is checked for the safe evaluation property. The result of the compilation is a set of Starburst SQL statements that define all the necessary rules needed for enforcing the given constraints. There is no need for an additional runtime constraint monitor. When the rules are activated, all updates to the database that violate any of the constraints are automatically rejected (i.e., the corresponding transaction is aborted). In addition to efficient implementation, this approach offers a clean separation of application programs and the integrity checking code. 1 Introduction Since the introduction of databases, the notions of data consistency and integrity constraints have been an playing important role in the database application design process. The constraints can usuall...

A completeness theorem is established for logics with congruence endowed with general semantics (in the style of general frames). As a corollary, completeness is shown to be preserved by bring logics with congruence provided that congruence is retained in the resulting logic. The class of logics with equivalence is shown to be closed under bring and to be included in the class of logics with congruence. Thus, completeness is shown to be preserved by bring logics with equivalence and general semantics. An example is provided showing that completeness is not always preserved by bring logics endowed with standard (non general) semantics. A categorial characterization of bring is provided using coproducts and cocartesian liftings. 1 Introduction Much attention has been recently given to the problems of combining logics and obtaining transference results. Besides leading to very interesting applications whenever it is necessary to work with dierent logics at the same time, ...