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LUP – Logical reasoning and programming

This page provides information for the class B4M36LUP - Logické usuzování a programování as well as its English-language counterpart BE4M36LUP - Logical reasoning and programming, which are taught jointly. The lectures are held in English unless all participants speak Czech.

The course's aim is to explain selected significant methods of computational logic. These include algorithms for propositional satisfiability checking, first-order theorem proving and model-finding, and logical programming in Prolog,. Time permitting, we will also discuss some complexity and decidability issues pertaining to the said methods.

Lecturers: Karel Chvalovský, Ondřej Kuželka

Lab instructors: Karel Chvalovský, Václav Kůla, Jan Tóth

Course supervisor: Filip Železný

Lectures

The materials from the previous iteration of this course are available here.

Date Lecturer Topic Resources
1 23.9. Chvalovský Introduction and propositional logic (recap) slides
2 30.9. Chvalovský SAT solving—resolution and DPLL slides
3 7.10. Chvalovský SAT solving—CDCL and probabilistic methods slides
4 14.10. Chvalovský SAT solving (cont'd), FOL, and SMT slides
5 21.10. Chvalovský SMT slides
6 28.10. Statehood Day no lecture
7 4.11. Chvalovský SMT (cont'd) and quantifiers in FOL slides
8 11.11. Chvalovský FOL—Resolution, Equality, and Model Finding slides
9 18.11. Chvalovský Proof assistants slides
10 25.11. Kuželka Introduction to Prolog slides
11 2.12. Kuželka Recursion, lists slides (Erratum: In the example starting at ~17:30, there should be predicate connectedS instead of connected.)
12 9.12. Kuželka SLD trees, cut, negation slides
13 16.12. Kuželka Search in Prolog slides
14 6.1. Kuželka Answer set programming slides

Videos for the Prolog part:

Lecture 10: part 1, part 2, part 3 (Erratum: On the slide “An Example (2)” in part 3, the Herbrand universe should be {maria, peter, ai_techniques}), Lecture 11:video (Erratum: In the example starting at ~17:30, we there should be predicate connectedS instead of connected.), Lecture 12: part 1, part 2, part 3, Lecture 13: video, Lecture 14:video (Notes: I apologize for the poor technical quality of the recordings. Slides in most of the videos are based on materials by Peter Flach.)

Note that the titles and topics of future lectures are tentative and subject to change.

Labs

Date Tutor Topic Resources
1 23.9. Chvalovský General discussion, propositional logic, and normal forms exercises
2 30.9. Chvalovský SAT Solving I exercises
3 7.10. Chvalovský SAT Solving II exercises,
notebooks
4 14.10. Chvalovský SAT Solving III and FOL exercises
5 21.10. Chvalovský SMT exercises,
SMT files
6 28.10. Statehood Day no labs
7 4.11. Chvalovský SMT (cont'd) and FOL (basic notions) exercises
8 11.11. Chvalovský FOL Resolution, ATPs exercises,
TPTP files
9 18.11. Chvalovský Isabelle exercises
10 25.11. Kůla Prolog as a Database exercises
11 2.12. Kůla Lists in Prolog exercises
12 9.12. Kůla Cut in Prolog exercises
13 16.12. Kůla Search in Prolog exercises
14 6.1. Kůla Answer Set Programming exercises

Note that the titles and topics of future labs are tentative and subject to change.

Tasks

Assigned Deadline Name BRUTE label Description Points
1 14.10. 11.11. Shirokuro shirokuro task1 20
2 18.11. 16.12. Heron's method heron task2,
example
15
3 16.12. 31.1. Escape from Zurg zurg task3 15

Grading

Labs

There will be 3 tasks assigned during the semester. You submit your solutions through BRUTE. Late submissions are penalized.

An assessment is awarded if you receive at least 25 points for all your solutions.

Examination

The exam will be a written test (50 points), see a sample and a test from three years ago, and to pass, you need to get at least 25 points. You are eligible for a grade only after receiving the labs assessment. However, you can still attend the exam.

The final grade is based on the sum of points you receive for labs (max. 50 pts.) and the exam (max. 50 pts.) and follows university regulations:

Points Grade
100-90 A 1 excellent
89-80 B 1.5 very good
79-70 C 2 good
69-60 D 2.5 satisfactory
59-50 E 3 sufficient
<50 F 4 failed

There are many general introductions covering basic notions from propositional and first-order logic. For example, the Open Logic Project is freely accessible. Decision Procedures (PDF is available from the CTU network) covers many topics from SAT and SMT. An online book that covers various topics discussed in the course is Logic and Mechanized Reasoning. Yet another relevant book available from the CTU networks is Mathematical Logic for Computer Science.

SAT/SMT

TPTP

Automated Theorem Provers

Model Finders

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