During the last decades, a lot of effort was put into identifying decidable fragments of first-order logic. Such efforts gave birth, among the others, to the two-variable fragment and the guarded fragment, depending on the type of restriction imposed on formulae from the language. Despite the success of the mentioned logics in areas like formal verification and knowledge representation, such first-order fragments are too weak to express even the simplest statistical constraints, required for modelling of influence networks or in statistical reasoning. In this work we investigate the extensions of these classical decidable logics with percentage quantifiers, specifying how frequently a formula is satisfied in the indented model. We show, surprisingly, that all the mentioned decidable fragments become undecidable under such extension, sharpening the existing results in the literature. Our negative results are supplemented by decidability of the two-variable guarded fragment with even more expressive counting, namely Presburger constraints. Our results can be applied to infer decidability of various modal and description logics, e.g. Presburger Modal Logics with Converse or ALCI, with expressive cardinality constraints.
翻译:在过去几十年里,人们花了很大努力来查明一阶逻辑的可分解的碎片。这种努力除其他外,产生了两种可变的碎片和保守的碎片,这取决于对语言公式施加的限制类型。尽管上述逻辑在正式核查和知识表述等领域取得了成功,但这种一阶的碎片太弱,甚至无法表达最简单的统计限制,无法表达影响网络建模或统计推理所需要的最简单的统计限制。在这项工作中,我们用百分数计数来调查这些古老的可变逻辑的延伸,具体说明一个公式在定分数模型中满足的频率。我们令人惊讶地显示,所有提到的可变的碎片在这种扩展下变得不可变化,使文献中的现有结果更加锐化。我们的负面结果由两种可变的保守的碎片的衰减性来补充,其计算能力甚至更明显,即Presburger制约。我们的结果可以用来推断出各种模式和描述逻辑的衰减性,例如Presburger Modallogics, 具有鲜明或ALCI的制约。