Probabilization of Logics: Completeness and Decidability
Pedro Baltazar, IST, Lisbon
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-013-0087-8

Abstract
The probabilization of a logic system consists of enriching the language
(the formulas) and the semantics (the models) with probabilistic features.
Such an operation is said to be exogenous if the enrichment is done on top,
without internal changes to the structure, and is called endogenous
otherwise. These two different enrichments can be applied simultaneously to
the language and semantics of a same logic. We address the problem of
studying the transference of metaproperties, such as completeness and
decidability, to the exogenous probabilization of an abstract logic system.
First, we setup the necessary framework to handle the probabilization of a
satisfaction system by proving transference results within a more general
context. In this setup, we define a combination mechanism of logics through
morphisms and prove sufficient condition to guarantee completeness and
decidability. Then, we demonstrate that probabilization is a special case
of this exogenous combination method, and that it fulfills the general
conditions to obtain transference of completeness and decidability.
Finally, we motivate the applicability of our technique by analyzing the
probabilization of the linear temporal logic over Markov chains, which
constitutes an endogenous probabilization. The results are obtained first
by studying the exogenous semantics, and then by establishing an
equivalence with the original probabilization given by Markov chains.
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