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Inquisitive modal logic, InqML, in its epistemic incarnation, extends standard epistemic logic to capture not just the information that agents have, but also the questions that they are interested in. We use the natural notion of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Ivano Ciardelli , Martin Otto

The study of group knowledge concepts such as mutual, common, and distributed knowledge is well established within the discipline of epistemic logic. In this work, we incorporate epistemic abilities of agents to refine the formal definition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiaolong Liang , Yì N. Wáng

We compare different epistemic notions in the presence of awareness of propositional variables: the logics of implicit knowledge (in which explicit knowledge is definable), explicit knowledge, and speculative knowledge. Different notions of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Hans van Ditmarsch , Tim French , Fernando R. Velazquez-Quesada , Yi N. Wang

There has been an increasing interest in topological semantics for epistemic logic, which has been shown to be useful for, e.g., modelling evidence, degrees of belief, and self-reference. We introduce a polytopological PDL capable of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Martín Diéguez , David Fernández-Duque

The paper investigates epistemic properties of information flow under communication protocols with a given topological structure of the communication network. The main result is a sound and complete logical system that describes all such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Pavel Naumov , Jia Tao

In this paper we demonstrate decidability for the intuitionistic modal logic S4 first formulated by Fischer Servi. This solves a problem that has been open for almost thirty years since it had been posed in Simpson's PhD thesis in 1994. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Marianna Girlando , Roman Kuznets , Sonia Marin , Marianela Morales , Lutz Straßburger

Substantial efforts have been made in developing various Decision Modeling formalisms, both from industry and academia. A challenging problem is that of expressing decision knowledge in the context of incomplete knowledge. In such contexts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Đorđe Marković , Simon Vandevelde , Linde Vanbesien , Joost Vennekens , Marc Denecker

This work builds upon a well-established research tradition on modal logics of awareness. One of its aims is to export tools and techniques to other areas within modal logic. To this end, we illustrate a number of significant bridges with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Carlo Proietti , Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada , Antonio Yuste-Ginel

Polyhedral semantics is a recently introduced branch of spatial modal logic, in which modal formulas are interpreted as piecewise linear subsets of an Euclidean space. Polyhedral semantics for the basic modal language has already been well…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Nick Bezhanishvili , Laura Bussi , Vincenzo Ciancia , David Fernández-Duque , David Gabelaia

The use of Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) in multi-agent planning has led to a widely adopted action formalism that can handle nondeterminism, partial observability and arbitrary knowledge nesting. As such expressive power comes at the cost…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Alessandro Burigana , Paolo Felli , Marco Montali , Nicolas Troquard

By nature, transmissible human knowledge is enumerable: every sentence, movie, audio record can be encoded in a sufficiently long string of 0's and 1's. The works of G\"odel, Turing and others showed that there are inherent limits and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Frédéric Prost

Justification logics are epistemic logics that explicitly include justifications for the agents' knowledge. We develop a multi-agent justification logic with evidence terms for individual agents as well as for common knowledge. We define a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Samuel Bucheli , Roman Kuznets , Thomas Studer

Modal logics allow reasoning about various modes of truth: for example, what it means for something to be possibly true, or to know that something is true as opposed to merely believing it. This report describes embeddings of propositional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-16 John Rushby

In this paper, the concept of possibilistic evidence which is a possibility distribution as well as a body of evidence is proposed over an infinite universe of discourse. The inference with possibilistic evidence is investigated based on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Fengming Song , Ping Liang

The ability of an agent to comprehend a sentence is tightly connected to the agent's prior experiences and background knowledge. The paper suggests to interpret comprehension as a modality and proposes a complete bimodal logical system that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pavel Naumov , Kevin Ros

This paper proposes an approach to information-based logics using many-logic modal structures (MLMS). These structures can express accessibility relations between worlds with different underlying logics by anchoring them to a base lattice,…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Manuel Martins , Abílio Rodrigues , Marcelo Coniglio , Alfredo Freire

Nonmonotonic logics are usually characterized by the presence of some notion of 'conditional' that fails monotonicity. Research on nonmonotonic logics is therefore largely concerned with the defeasibility of argument forms and the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Katarina Britz , Ivan Varzinczak

We axiomatize the provability logic of $\HA$ and prove its decidability. Furthermore, we axiomatize the preservativity and relative admissibility relations for several modal logics extending iK4. A principal technical tool is the…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Mojtaba Mojtahedi

We see how nested sequents, a natural generalisation of hypersequents, allow us to develop a systematic proof theory for modal logics. As opposed to other prominent formalisms, such as the display calculus and labelled sequents, nested…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-13 Kai Brünnler

Within the possibilistic approach to uncertainty modeling, the paper presents a modal logical system to reason about qualitative (comparative) statements of the possibility (and necessity) of fuzzy propositions. We relate this qualitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Petr Hajek , Dagmar Harmancová , Francesc Esteva , Pere Garcia , Lluis Godo