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Why are Modal Logics so Robustly Decidable?

@inproceedings{Grdel1999WhyAM,
  title={Why are Modal Logics so Robustly Decidable?},
  author={Erich Gr{\"a}del},
  booktitle={Bull. EATCS},
  year={1999}
}
  • E. Grädel
  • Published in Bull. EATCS 1 May 2001
  • Computer Science
Modal logics are widely used in a number of areas in computer science, in particular for the speciication and veriication of hardware and software systems, for knowledge representation, in databases, and in artiicial intelligence. The most important reason for the successful applications of these logics is that they provide a good balance between expressive power and computational complexity. In 30] Vardi adressed the question to identify the main reasons for the robust decidabil-ity properties… 
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