A first-order Temporal Logic for Actions

Camilla Schwind (1)

1 LIF - Laboratoire d'informatique Fondamentale de Marseille - UMR 6166

We present a multi-modal action logic with first-order modalities, which contain terms which can be unified with the terms inside the subsequent formulas and which can be quantified. This makes it possible to handle simultaneously time and states. We discuss applications of this language to action theory where it is possible to express many temporal aspects of actions, as for example, beginning, end, time points, delayed preconditions and results, duration and many others. We present tableaux rules for a decidable fragment of this logic.

Mots clés: Modal Action Logic; Temporal Reasoning

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Logique en informatique [cs.LO]

Camilla Schwind. A first-order Temporal Logic for Actions. 2006. ⟨hal-00146353⟩