Advances in Modal Logic 2008

The seventh Advances in Modal Logic conference (AiML-2008) took place in Nancy, France, from 9-12 September 2008.

Local organization:

Patrick Blackburn

Programme committee:

Alessandro Artale, Alexandru Baltag, Guram Bezhanishvili, Philippe Balbiani, Patrick Blackburn, Stéphane Demri, Melvin Fitting, Guido Governatori, Silvio Ghilardi, Valentin Goranko, Rajeev Goré, Andreas Herzig, Ian Hodkinson, Ramon Jansana, Alexander Kurz, Carsten Lutz, Edwin Mares, Larry Moss, Dirk Pattinson, Mark Reynolds, Ulrike Sattler, Ildiko Sain, Renate Schmidt, Jerry Seligman, Valentin Shehtman, Nobu-Yuki Suzuki, Yde Venema, Heinrich Wansing, Frank Wolter and Michael Zakharyaschev

Programme co-chairs: Carlos Areces and Rob Goldblatt

Invited speakers:

Conference local website: http://aiml08.loria.fr/

Call for papers: [ TXT ]

Programme

Tuesday, September 9

9:30-10:15
Opening and Coffee
10:15-12:30
Full paper presentations (chair: Carlos Areces)
10:15
A Lindström Characterisation of the Guarded Fragment and of Modal Logic With a Global Modality
Martin Otto and Robert Piro*
11:00
Modal Logic of Time Division
Tero Tulenheimo
11:45
A Modal Perspective on Monadic Second-Order Alternation Hierarchies
Antti Kuusisto
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Full paper presentations (chair: Rob Goldblatt)
14:00
Cut-elimination and proof-search for bi-intuitionistic logic using nested sequents
Rajeev Goré, Linda Postniece* and Alwen Tiu
14:45
Valentini's Cut-elimination for Provability Logic Resolved
Rajeev Goré and Revantha Ramanayake*
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
Abstract presentations (chair: Michael Zakharyaschev)
16:00
An extension of Kracht's theorem to monadic inductive formulas
Stas Kikot
16:30
Compact Hausdorff modal algebras are image-finite Kripke frames
Jacob Vosmaer
17:00-18:00
Invited talk (chair: Rob Goldblatt)
17:00
Duality theory as a Rosetta Stone
or Using duality theory to export methods from modal logic
Invited speaker: Mai Gehrke
19:00
Reception at the Musée Lorraine

Wednesday, September 10

9:30-11:00
Full paper presentations (chair: Carlos Areces)
9:30
PSPACE-decidability of Japaridze's Polymodal Logic
Ilya Shapirovsky
10:15
A decision procedure for alternation-free modal mu-calculi
Yoshinori Tanabe*, Koichi Takahashi and Masami Hagiya
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Invited talk (chair: Mark Reynolds)
11:30
Labelled modal tableaux
Invited speaker: Guido Governatori
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Full paper presentations (chair: Carlos Areces)
14:00
Many-Valued Hybrid Logic
Jens Ulrik Hansen*, Thomas Bolander and Torben Braüner
14:45
Locality and subsumption testing in EL and some of its extensions
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
Abstract presentations (chair: Stéphane Demri)
16:00
Generalised Kripke semantics for the Lambek-Grishin calculus
Anna Chernilovskaya* and Mai Gehrke
16:30
An algebraic generalization of Kripke structures
Sérgio Marcelino
17:00-18:00
Invited talk (chair: Mai Gehrke)
17:00
Two études on computer science and modal logic
Invited speaker: Michael Zakharyaschev

Thursday, September 11

9:30-11:00
Full paper presentations (chair: Rob Goldblatt)
9:30
On the intermediate logic of open subsets of metric spaces
Timofei Shatrov
10:15
Modal Logics for Mereotopological Relations
Yavor Nenov and Dimiter Vakarelov
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Invited talk (chair: Ian Hodkinson)
10:30
Axiomatising products modal logics
Invited speaker: Agi Kurucz
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Full paper presentations
14:00
Three 13th-century views of quantified modal logic
Sara L. Uckelman
14:45
An Interval Logic for Natural Language Semantics
Savas Konur
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
Abstract presentations
16:00
A Tableau for RoBCTL*
John McCabe-Dansted
16:30
Inconsistency-Adaptive Modal Logics: Part I
Hans Lycke
17:00-18:00
Invited talk (chair: Yde Venema)
10:30
Relational syllogistic logics, and other connections between modal logic and natural logic
Invited speaker: Lawrence Moss
19:00
Gala dinner at the Mairie de Nancy

Friday, September 12

9:30-11:00
Full paper presentations
9:30
Properties of logics of individual and group agency
Andreas Herzig and Francois Schwarzentruber*
10:15
Undecidability for arbitrary public announcement logic
Tim French and Hans van Ditmarsch*
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-12:30
Abstract presenatations (chair: Guido Governatori)
11:30
Counterpart Semantics at work: an Incompleteness Result in Quantified Modal Logic
Francesco Belardinelli
12:00
Restricted interpolation in modal and superintuitionistic logics
Larisa Maksimova
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Full paper presentations
14:00
Proof systems for the coalgebraic cover modality
Marta Bilkova, Alessandra Palmigiano and Yde Venema*
14:45
Clemens Kupke, Alexander Kurz* and Yde Venema
A complete coalgebraic logic
15:30-16:15
Coffee break and closing