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Changing Observations in Epistemic Temporal Logic

Logic in Computer Science 2018-09-05 v2 Artificial Intelligence Multiagent Systems

Abstract

We study dynamic changes of agents' observational power in logics of knowledge and time. We consider CTL*K, the extension of CTL* with knowledge operators, and enrich it with a new operator that models a change in an agent's way of observing the system. We extend the classic semantics of knowledge for perfect-recall agents to account for changes of observation, and we show that this new operator strictly increases the expressivity of CTL*K. We reduce the model-checking problem for our logic to that for CTL*K, which is known to be decidable. This provides a solution to the model-checking problem for our logic, but its complexity is not optimal. Indeed we provide a direct decision procedure with better complexity.

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@article{arxiv.1805.06881,
  title  = {Changing Observations in Epistemic Temporal Logic},
  author = {Aurèle Barrière and Bastien Maubert and Aniello Murano and Sasha Rubin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06881},
  year   = {2018}
}
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