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The paper suggests a definition of "know who" as a modality using Grove-Halpern semantics of names. It also introduces a logical system that describes the interplay between modalities "knows who", "knows", and "for all agents". The main…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Sophia Epstein , Pavel Naumov

We develop a framework for epistemic logic that combines relevant modal logic with classical propositional logic. In our framework the agent is modeled as reasoning in accordance with a relevant modal logic while the propositional fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Igor Sedlár , Pietro Vigiani

There has been considerable work on reasoning about the strategic ability of agents under imperfect information. However, existing logics such as Probabilistic Strategy Logic are unable to express properties relating to information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chunyan Mu , Nima Motamed , Natasha Alechina , Brian Logan

Justification logics are modal-like logics with the additional capability of recording the reason, or justification, for modalities in syntactic structures, called justification terms. Justification logics can be seen as explicit…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Samuel Bucheli

We present an epistemic logic equipped with time-stamps in the atoms and epistemic operators, which allows to reason not only about information available to the different agents, but also about the moments at which events happens and new…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Raúl Pardo , César Sánchez , Gerardo Schneider

Accounting for the epistemic contribution of deduction has been a pervasive problem for logicians interested in deduction, such as, among others, Jakko Hintikka. The problem arises because the conclusion validly deduced from a set of…

Previous research into the relation between ASP and classical logic has identified at least two different ways in which the former extends the latter. First, ASP program typically contain sets of rules that can be naturally interpreted as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-01-09 Joost Vennekens , Marc Denecker

Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and an explainer. Here, we apply this perspective to consider the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Katherine M. Collins , Kartik Chandra , Adrian Weller , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

We present a general logical framework for reasoning about agents' cognitive attitudes of both epistemic type and motivational type. We show that it allows us to express a variety of relevant concepts for qualitative decision theory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Emiliano Lorini

Supporting learners' understanding of taught skills in online settings is a longstanding challenge. While exercises and chat-based agents can evaluate understanding in limited contexts, this challenge is magnified when learners seek…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rahul K. Dass , Rochan H. Madhusudhana , Erin C. Deye , Shashank Verma , Timothy A. Bydlon , Grace Brazil , Ashok K. Goel

By using the abstract structures investigated in the first Part of this article, we develop a semantics for an epistemic language, which expresses sentences like "Alice knows that Bob does not understand that PI is irrational". One is…

We introduce Ak, an extension of the action description language A (Gelfond and Lifschitz, 1993) to handle actions which affect knowledge. We use sensing actions to increase an agent's knowledge of the world and non-deterministic actions to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jorge Lobo , Gisela Mendez , Stuart R. Taylor

Explainability of algorithmic decision-making systems is both a regulatory objective and an area of intense research. The article argues that a crucial condition for the acceptability of algorithmic decision-making systems is that decisions…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sarra Tajouri , Yves Meinard , Alexis Tsoukiàs , Thierry Kirat

Applying automated reasoning tools for decision support and analysis in law has the potential to make court decisions more transparent and objective. Since there is often uncertainty about the accuracy and relevance of evidence,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Inga Ibs , Nico Potyka

Quantum information has suggested new forms of quantum logic, called quantum computational logics, where meanings of sentences are represented by pieces of quantum information (generally, density operators of some Hilbert spaces), which can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-25 Giuseppe Sergioli , Roberto Leporini

This paper makes a first step towards a logic of learning from experiments. For this, we investigate formal frameworks for modeling the interaction of causal and (qualitative) epistemic reasoning. Crucial for our approach is the idea that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Fausto Barbero , Katrin Schulz , Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada , Kaibo Xie

As the interest in Artificial Intelligence continues to grow it is becoming more and more important to investigate formalization and tools that allow us to exploit logic to reason about the world. In particular, given the increasing number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Francesco Fabiano

Two types of explanations have been receiving increased attention in the literature when analyzing the decisions made by classifiers. The first type explains why a decision was made and is known as a sufficient reason for the decision, also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Chunxi Ji , Adnan Darwiche

Awareness has been shown to be a useful addition to standard epistemic logic for many applications. However, standard propositional logics for knowledge and awareness cannot express the fact that an agent knows that there are facts of which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph Y. halpern , Leandro Chaves Rego

We study abstract intermediate justification logics, that is arbitrary intermediate propositional logics extended with a subset of specific axioms of (classical) justification logics. For these, we introduce various semantics by combining…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Nicholas Pischke