
arXiv: cs/0108013
handle: 11858/00-001M-0000-000F-2984-9
Exactly solving first-order constraints (i.e., first-order formulas over a certain predefined structure) can be a very hard, or even undecidable problem. In continuous structures like the real numbers it is promising to compute approximate solutions instead of exact ones. However, the quantifiers of the first-order predicate language are an obstacle to allowing approximations to arbitrary small error bounds. In this article, we remove this obstacle by modifying the first-order language and replacing the classical quantifiers with approximate quantifiers. These also have two additional advantages: First, they are tunable, in the sense that they allow the user to decide on the trade-off between precision and efficiency. Second, they introduce additional expressivity into the first-order language by allowing reasoning over the size of solution sets.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science, I.2.3, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, F.4.1; I.2.3, F.4.1, Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science, I.2.3, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, F.4.1; I.2.3, F.4.1, Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
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