London Logic Forum (LLF)

The London Logic Forum brings together London researchers in the mathematics and computational aspects of formal logic. It promotes informal contacts between them, and works with them to support visits, visitors, and PhD students. It also publicises and hosts relevant seminars and workshops.

In recognition of the now substantial research activity in logic in the capital, the London Logic Forum was formed in 2004 by members of Birkbeck College, Imperial College London, King's College London, and University College London. The people participating in LLF have research interests in algebraic, first-order, modal, temporal, intuitionistic, spatial and description logic, and other relevant areas including combinatorics, complexity, model theory, knowledge representation and reasoning, and automated theorem proving.

News

New book announcement: Handbook of Spatial Logics, (eds.: M. Aiello, I. Pratt-Hartmann, J. van Benthem), Springer, 2007. A spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed. In the past decade, spatial logics have attracted much attention in response to developments in such diverse fields as Artificial Intelligence, Database Theory, Physics, and Philosophy. The aim of this handbook is to create, for the first time, a systematic account of the field of spatial logic. The book comprises a general introduction, followed by fourteen chapters by invited authors. Each chapter provides a self-contained overview of its topic, describing the principal results obtained to date, explaining the methods used to obtain them, and listing the most important open problems. Jointly, these contributions constitute a comprehensive survey of this rapidly expanding subject.

• M. Aiello, I. Pratt-Hartmann, J. van Benthem, What is Spatial Logic?
• I.Pratt-Hartmann, First-Order Mereotopology
• B. Bennett, I. Düntsch, Axioms, Algebras, and Topology
• J. Renz, B. Nebel, Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Using Constraint Calculi
• J. van Benthem, G. Bezhanishvili, Modal Logics of Space
• R. Parikh, L.S. Moss, C. Steinsvold, Topology and Epistemic Logic
• P. Balbiani, V. Goranko, R. Kellerman, D. Vakarelov, Logical Theories for Fragments of Elementary Geometry
• S. Vickers, Locales and Toposes as Spaces
• R. Kontchakov, A. Kurucz, F. Wolter, M. Zakharyaschev, Spatial Logic + Temporal Logic = ?
• P. Kremer, G. Mints, Dynamic Topological Logic
• H. Andréka, J.X. Madarász, I. Németi, Logic of Space-time and Relativity Theory
• M.B. Smyth, J. Webster, Discrete Spatial Models
• F. Geerts, B. Kuijpers, Real Algebraic Geometry and Constraint Databases
• I. Bloch, H. Heijmans, C. Ronse, Mathematical Morphology
• A.C. Varzi, Spatial Reasoning and Ontology: Parts, Wholes and Locations

For more information, please visit the Springer website.

The LLF is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, University College London.