期刊名称:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
电子版ISSN:2075-2180
出版年度:2019
卷号:306
页码:101-113
DOI:10.4204/EPTCS.306.17
语种:English
出版社:Open Publishing Association
摘要:We introduce a logic for knowledge representation and reasoning on protein-protein interactions. Modulo a theory, formulas describe protein structures and dynamic changes. They can be composed in order to add or remove static and dynamic observations. A second-order circumscription operator then enables nonmonotonic reasoning on the changes implied by a formula. We introduce deduction rules that produce formulas which are, up to equivalence, in a first-order fragment with decidable satisfiability and validity. Importantly, the rules can produce circumscribed formulas.