We investigate axiomatizations of Kripke’s [18] theory of truth based on the Strong Kleene evaluation scheme for treating sentences lacking a truth value. Feferman’s axiomatization KF formulated in classical logic is an indirect approach, because it is not sound with respect to Kripke’s semantics in the straightforward sense; only the sentences provably true in KF are valid in Kripke’s partial ...

We propose a combination of Bochvar’s strict three-valued logic, McCarthy’s sequential three-valued logic, and process algebra via the conditional guard construct. This combination entails the introduction of a new constant meaningless in process algebra. We present an operational semantics in SOS-style, and a completeness result for ACP with conditional guard construct and the proposed logic.

We study the international standard XACML 3.0 for describing security access control policy in a compositional way. Our main contribution is to derive a logic that precisely captures the idea behind the standard and to formally define the semantics of the policy combining algorithms of XACML. To guard against modelling artifacts we provide an alternative way of characterizing the policy combini...

Path-sensitive data flow analysis pairs classical data flow analysis with an analysis of feasibility of paths to improve precision. In this paper we propose a framework for path-sensitive backward data flow analysis that is enhanced with an abstraction of the predicate domain. The abstraction is based on a three-valued logic. It follows the strategy that path predicates are simplified if possib...

We study the international standard XACML 3.0 for describing security access control policy in a compositional way. Our main contribution is to derive a logic that precisely captures the idea behind the standard and to formally define the semantics of the policy combining algorithms of XACML. To guard against modelling artefacts we provide an alternative way of characterizing the policy combini...

A critical view of the alleged significance of Belnap four-valued logic for reasoning under inconsistent and incomplete information is provided. The difficulty lies in the confusion between truth-values and information states, when reasoning about Boolean propositions. So our critique is along the lines of previous debates on the relevance of many-valued logics and especially of the extension o...

Scope: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Neural Networks and Connectionist Models Evolutionary Algorithms Fuzzy Logic Knowledge Management Multi-valued Logic Semantic Networks Rough Sets Intelligent Agents Ontologies Reinforcement Learning Complex Network Computational Intelligence Data integration across multiple social networks Honorary Chairs Yongyi, Guo, Taiyuan University...

Symbolic data structures for multi-valued logics are useful in a number of applications, from model-checking to circuit design and switch-level circuit verification. Such data structures are referred to as decision diagrams, and are typically considered effective if they are small, i.e., common co-factors of a function are shared, and canonical, i.e., given a variable ordering, there is a uniqu...