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The logics of knowledge are modal logics that have been shown to be effective in representing and reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent domains. Relatively few computational frameworks for dealing with computation of models and useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Chitta Baral , Gregory Gelfond , Enrico Pontelli , Tran Cao Son

Standard epistemic logics introduce a modal operator K to represent knowledge, but in doing so they presuppose the logical apparatus they aim to explain. By contrast, this paper explores how logic may be derived from the structure of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alexader V. Gheorghiu , Tao Gu

Categorization systems are widely studied in psychology, sociology, and organization theory as information-structuring devices which are critical to decision-making processes. In the present paper, we introduce a sound and complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Willem Conradie , Sabine Frittella , Alessandra Palmigiano , Michele Piazzai , Apostolos Tzimoulis , Nachoem M. Wijnberg

The logic of goal-directed knowing-how extends the standard epistemic logic with an operator of knowing-how. The knowing-how operator is interpreted as that there exists a strategy such that the agent knows that the strategy can make sure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yanjun Li

Explainable systems expose information about why certain observed effects are happening to the agents interacting with them. We argue that this constitutes a positive flow of information that needs to be specified, verified, and balanced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Julian Siber

We present a first-order probabilistic epistemic logic, which allows combining operators of knowledge and probability within a group of possibly infinitely many agents. The proposed framework is the first order extension of the logic of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Siniša Tomović , Zoran Ognjanović , Dragan Doder

We introduce a new semantics for a logic of explicit and implicit beliefs based on the concept of multi-agent belief base. Differently from existing Kripke-style semantics for epistemic logic in which the notions of possible world and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Emiliano Lorini

In this paper, we propose a ternary knowing how operator to express that the agent knows how to achieve $\phi$ given $\psi$ while maintaining $\chi$ in-between. It generalizes the logic of goal-directed knowing how proposed by Yanjing Wang…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Yanjun Li , Yanjing Wang

Many applications of intelligent systems require reasoning about the mental states of agents in the domain. We may want to reason about an agent's beliefs, including beliefs about other agents; we may also want to reason about an agent's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Brian Milch , Daphne Koller

We propose a multi-agent epistemic logic capturing reasoning with degrees of plausibility that agents can assign to a given statement, with $1$ interpreted as "entirely plausible for the agent" and $0$ as "completely implausible" (i.e., the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Marta Bílková , Thomas Ferguson , Daniil Kozhemiachenko

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Aurèle Barrière , Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano , Sasha Rubin

Two distinct semantics have been considered for knowledge in the context of strategic reasoning, depending on whether players know each other's strategy or not. The problem of distributed synthesis for epistemic temporal specifications is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano

The aim of this study is to formally express awareness for modeling practical agent communication. The notion of awareness has been proposed as a set of propositions for each agent, to which he/she pays attention, and has contributed to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yudai Kubono , Teeradaj Racharak , Satoshi Tojo

Reasoning abilities of human beings are limited. Logics that treat logical inference for human knowledge should reflect these limited abilities. Logic of awareness is one of those logics. In the logic, what an agent with a limited reasoning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Yudai Kubono

Dynamic Epistemic Logic makes it possible to model and reason about information change in multi-agent systems. Information change is mathematically modeled through epistemic action Kripke models introduced by Baltag et al. Also, van…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Mohammad Ardeshir Rasoul Ramezanian

Logics for reasoning about knowledge and actions have seen many applications in various domains of multi-agent systems, including epistemic planning. Change of knowledge based on observations about the surroundings forms a key aspect in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Avijeet Ghosh , Sujata Ghosh , François Schwarzentruber

We propose a dynamic logic of lying, wherein a 'lie that phi' (where phi is a formula in the logic) is an action in the sense of dynamic modal logic, that is interpreted as a state transformer relative to the formula phi. The states that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Hans van Ditmarsch

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) systems, including intelligent agents, must be able to explain their internal decisions, behaviours and reasoning that produce their choices to the humans (or other systems) with which they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Mariela Morveli-Espinoza , Ayslan Possebom , Cesar Augusto Tacla

Temporal epistemic logic is a well-established framework for expressing agents knowledge and how it evolves over time. Within language-based security these are central issues, for instance in the context of declassification. We propose to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Musard Balliu , Mads Dam , Gurvan Le Guernic

During the first step of practical reasoning, i.e. deliberation or goals selection, an intelligent agent generates a set of pursuable goals and then selects which of them he commits to achieve. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Mariela Morveli-Espinoza , Cesar Augusto Tacla , Henrique Jasinski