Deciding monodie fragments by temporal resolution

Abstract

In this paper we study the decidability of various fragments of monodic first-order temporal logic by temporal resolution. We focus on two resolution calculi, namely, monodic temporal resolution and finegrained temporal resolution. For the first, we state a very general decidability result, which is independent of the particular decision procedure used to decide the first-order part of the logic. For the second, we introduce refinements using orderings and selection functions. This allows us to transfer existing results on decidability by resolution for first-order fragments to monodic first-order temporal logic and obtain new decision procedures. The latter is of immediate practical value, due to the availability of TeMP, an implementation of fine-grained temporal resolution. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.