Advances in Modal Logic 2004
The fifth Advances in Modal Logic conference (AiML-2004) took place at the University of Manchester from September 9-11, 2004.
Local organization:
Renate Schmidt (with the help of Ian Pratt-Hartmann)
Programme committee:
Patrick Blackburn, Alexander Chagrov, Vincent Hendricks, Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Mark Reynolds (co-chair),
Maarten de Rijke, Ulrike Sattler, Holger Schlingloff, Renate Schmidt, Nobu-Yuki Suzuki, Heinrich Wansing (co-chair), Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev
As in previous years, AiML-2004 could boast a glittering array of invited speakers: Philippe Balbiani, Keith Devlin, Valentin Goranko, Wiebe van der Hoek, Maarten Marx and Robert Stalnaker.
Conference local website: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~schmidt/aiml04/
Call for papers: [ PS ]
Programme
Wednesday, September 8
- 17:00-20:00
- Registration
Thursday, September 9
- 8:00-9:15
- Registration
- 9:15-9:30
- Welcome
- 9:30-10:30
- Session 1: Invited Talk (Chair: Heinrich Wansing)
- 9:30
- The Logic of Jon Barwise (1942-2000)
Invited Speaker: Keith Devlin
- 10:30-11:00
- Coffee
- 11:00-12:30
- Session 2: Actions and Agency (Chair: Wiebe van der Hoek)
- 11:00
- On the Axiomatization of Elgesem's Logic of Agency
Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo
- 11:30
- Reduction Axioms for Epistemic Actions
Barteld Kooi, Johan van Benthem
- 12:00
- On Modularity of Theories
Andreas Herzig, Ivan Varzinczak
- 12:30-14:00
- Lunch
- 14:00-15:30
- Session 3: Invited Talk and Connexive Logic (Chair: Patrick Blackburn)
- 14:00
- Elementary Canonical Formulae: Syntactic, Model-Theoretic, and Algorithmic Aspects
Invited Speaker: Valentin Goranko
- 15:00
- Connexive Modal Logic
Heinrich Wansing
- 15:30-16:00
- Coffee
- 16:00-17:30
- Session 4: Finiteness (Chair: Nobu-Yuki Suzuki)
- 16:00
- A New Version of the Filtration Method
Valentin Shehtman
- 16:30
- Normal Modal Logics Containing KTB with some Finiteness Conditions
Yutaka Miyazaki
- 17:00
- Products of `Transitive' Modal Logics without the (Abstract) Finite Model Property
David Gabelaia, Agi Kurucz, Michael Zakharyaschev
- 18:30
- Welcome Reception
Friday, September 10
- 9:00-10:30
- Session 5: Invited Talk and Complexity I (Chair: Dimiter Vakarelov)
- 9:00
- Variants of PDL with Intersection of Programs
Invited Speaker: Philippe Balbiani
- 10:00
- A Lower Complexity Bound for Propositional Dynamic Logic with Intersection
Martin Lange
- 10:30-11:00
- Coffee
- 11:00-12:30
- Session 6a: Complexity II (Parallel session, Chair: Ulrike Sattler)
- 11:00
- On the Complexity of Fragments of Modal Logics
Linh Anh Nguyen
- 11:30
- PSPACE Decision Procedure for some Transitive Modal Logics
Ilya Shapirovsky
- 12:00
- The Complexity of Strict Implication Logics
Felix Bou
- 11:00-12:30
- Session 6b: Actions (Parallel session, Chair: Andreas Herzig)
- 11:00
- Utilitarian Deontic Logic
Yuko Murakami
- 11:30
- Public Announcements and Belief Revision
Hans van Ditmarsch, Wiebe van der Hoek, Barteld Kooi
- 12:00
- On the Formal Structure of Continuous Action
Thomas Müller
- 12:30-14:00
- Lunch
- 14:00-15:30
- Session 7: Invited Talk and Model Checking (Chair: Renate Schmidt)
- 14:00
- Model Checking Epistemic Properties
Invited Speaker: Wiebe van der Hoek
- 15:00
- Model Checking, Preprocessing, and BDD Size
Andrea Ferrara, Paolo Liberatore, Marco Schaerf
- 15:30-16:00
- Coffee
- 16:00-17:30
- Session 8a: Time, Knowledge and Independence (Parallel session, Chair: Michael Zakharyaschev)
- 16:00
- Complete Axiomatizations for Logics of Knowledge and Past Time
Tim French, Ron van der Meyden, Mark Reynolds
- 16:30
- Resolution for Synchrony and No Learning
Claudia Nalon, Clare Dixon, Michael Fisher
- 17:00
- Decidability of IF Modal Logic of Perfect Recall
Tapani Hyttinen, Tero Tulenheimo
- 16:00-17:30
- Session 8b: Proof Theory and Algebra (Parallel session, Chair: Torben Bräuner)
- 16:00
- A Systematic Proof Theory for Several Modal Logics
Charles Stewart, Phiniki Stouppa
- 16:30
- Consistency proofs for systems of multi-agent only knowing
Arild Waaler
- 17:00
- On Notions of Completeness Weaker than Kripke Completeness
Tadeusz Litak
- 17:30-18:30
- Business Meeting
- 19:30
- Conference Dinner
Saturday, September 11
- 9:00-10:30
- Session 9: Invited Talk and Hybrid Proof Theory (Chair: Frank Wolter)
- 9:00
- Modal Logic, Xpath and XML
Invited Speaker: Maarten Marx
- 10:00
- Pure Extensions, Proof Rules and Hybrid Axiomatics
Patrick Blackburn, Balder ten Cate
- 10:30-11:00
- Coffee
- 11:00-12:30
- Session 10: Hybrid Logic (Chair: Valentin Goranko)
- 11:00
- Sahlqvist Theory and Transfer Results for Hybrid Logic
Balder ten Cate, Maarten Marx, Petrucio Viana, Nick Bezhanishvilli
- 11:30
- A Two-Sorted Hybrid Logic with Guarded Jumps
Bernhard Heinemann
- 12:00
- Strong Completeness for Non-Compact Hybrid Logics
Barteld Kooi, Gerard Renardel de Lavalette, Rineke Verbrugge
- 12:30-14:00
- Lunch
- 14:00-16:00
- Session 11: Invited Talk and Topology (Chair: Ian Pratt-Hartmann)
- 14:00
- On what there isn't (but might have been)
Invited Speaker: Robert Stalnaker
- 15:00
- On Dynamic Topological and Metric Logics
Boris Konev, Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev
- 15:30
- Modal Logics of Topological Relations
Carsten Lutz, Frank Wolter
- 16:00-16:30
- Coffee