Formalizing action and change in modal logic I: the frame problem
Marcos Alexandre Castilho · Journal of Logic and Computation · 1999
We present the basic framework of a logic of actions and plans defined in terms of modal logic combined with a notion of dependence. The latter is used as a weak causal connection between actions and literals. In this paper we focus on the frame problem and demonstrate how it can be solved in our framework in a simple and monotonic way. We give the semantics, and associate an axiomatics and a decision procedure to it. The decision procedure is based on a sound and complete tableau method with single step rules to treat dependence. We show how it can be used to generate plans. Our solution is formally assessed by a translation of Gelfond and Lifschitz' logic A. We briefly sketch the second part of the paper, showing how we can go beyond A by some examples involving nondeterminism and ramifications.