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In artificial intelligence, multi agent systems constitute an interesting typology of society modeling, and have in this regard vast fields of application, which extend to the human sciences. Logic is often used to model such kind of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Valentina Pitoni , Stefania Costantini

In recent years, a new class of models for multi-agent epistemic logic has emerged, based on simplicial complexes. Since then, many variants of these simplicial models have been investigated, giving rise to different logics and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Eric Goubault , Roman Kniazev , Jérémy Ledent , Sergio Rajsbaum

Epistemic reasoning requires agents to infer the state of the world from partial observations and information about other agents' knowledge. Prior work evaluating LLMs on canonical epistemic puzzles interpreted their behavior through a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Adi Gabay , Gabriel Stanovsky , Liat Peterfreund

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the possibilities for computing machinery, or AI agents, to know and to possess knowledge. This is done mainly from a virtue epistemology perspective and definition of knowledge. However, this inquiry…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Raymond Anneborg

This paper presents a taxonomy of explainability in Human-Agent Systems. We consider fundamental questions about the Why, Who, What, When and How of explainability. First, we define explainability, and its relationship to the related terms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Avi Rosenfeld , Ariella Richardson

Our paper investigates the linear logic of knowledge and time LTK_r with reflexive intransitive time relation. The logic is defined semantically, -- as the set of formulas which are true at special frames with intransitive and reflexive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Alexandra Lukyanchuk , Vladimir Rybakov

The development of logic has largely been through the 'deductive' paradigm: conclusions are inferred from established premisses. However, the use of logic in the context of both human and machine reasoning is typically through the dual…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

Intelligent agents such as robots are increasingly deployed in real-world, safety-critical settings. It is vital that these agents are able to explain the reasoning behind their decisions to human counterparts, however, their behavior is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Xijia Zhang , Yue Guo , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Joseph Campbell

Intelligent agents, such as robots, are increasingly deployed in real-world, human-centric environments. To foster appropriate human trust and meet legal and ethical standards, these agents must be able to explain their behavior. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhang Xi-Jia , Yue Guo , Shufei Chen , Simon Stepputtis , Matthew Gombolay , Katia Sycara , Joseph Campbell

An inductive logic can be formulated in which the elements are not propositions or probability distributions, but information systems. The logic is complete for information systems with binary hypotheses, i.e., it applies to all such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Norman C. Dalkey

In standard epistemic logic, agent names are usually assumed to be common knowledge implicitly. This is unreasonable for various applications. Inspired by term modal logic and assignment operators in dynamic logic, we introduce a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yanjing Wang , Jeremy Seligman

Explainability is emerging as a key requirement for autonomous systems. While many works have focused on what constitutes a valid explanation, few have considered formalizing explainability as a system property. In this work, we approach…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bernd Finkbeiner , Julian Siber

We propose four axiomatic systems for intuitionistic linear temporal logic and show that each of these systems is sound for a class of structures based either on Kripke frames or on dynamic topological systems. Our topological semantics…

Explanations are inherently contrastive: E happened rather than E' because of C rather than C'. However, these contrasts, or "foils", are rarely mentioned explicitly but have to be inferred in context. Here, we investigate how people select…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Britt Besch , Tobias Gerstenberg

We characterize four types of agentive knowledge using a stit semantics over branching discrete-time structures. These are \emph{ex ante} knowledge, \emph{ex interim} knowledge, \emph{ex post} knowledge, and know-how. The first three are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Aldo Iván Ramírez Abarca , Jan Broersen

We present ATOMIC, an atlas of everyday commonsense reasoning, organized through 877k textual descriptions of inferential knowledge. Compared to existing resources that center around taxonomic knowledge, ATOMIC focuses on inferential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Maarten Sap , Ronan LeBras , Emily Allaway , Chandra Bhagavatula , Nicholas Lourie , Hannah Rashkin , Brendan Roof , Noah A. Smith , Yejin Choi

In recent years, epistemic logics have been extended with operators K_ax for knowledge of (the value of) a variable x (by an agent a). We study dynamic versions of these logics, enriched with modalities for semi-public data-exchange events…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alexandru Baltag , Sonja Smets

Explainable AI is an emerging field providing solutions for acquiring insights into automated systems' rationale. It has been put on the AI map by suggesting ways to tackle key ethical and societal issues. Existing explanation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Ioannis Mollas , Nick Bassiliades , Grigorios Tsoumakas

In a supervisory control system the human agent knowledge of past, current, and future system behavior is critical for system performance. Being able to reason about that knowledge in a precise and structured manner is central to effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Yoram Moses , Marcia K. Shamo

The framework of algorithmic knowledge assumes that agents use deterministic knowledge algorithms to compute the facts they explicitly know. We extend the framework to allow for randomized knowledge algorithms. We then characterize the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joseph Y. Halpern , Riccardo Pucella