PSPACE Reasoning for Graded Modal Logics
Stephan Tobies · Journal of Logic and Computation · 2001
We present a PSpace algorithm that decides satisfiability of the graded modal logic Gr(KR) - a natural extension of propositional modal logic KR by counting expressions - which plays an important role in the area of knowledge representation. The algorithm employs a tableaux approach and is the rst known algorithm which meets the lower bound for the complexity of the problem. Thus, we exactly fix the complexity of the problem and refute an ExpTime-hardness conjecture. We extend the results to the logic Gr(K R 1 \\ ), which augments Gr(KR) with inverse modalities and intersection of accessibility relations. This establishes a kind of "theoretical benchmark" that all algorithmic approaches can be measured with.