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This paper provides a set of cut-free complete sequent-style calculi for deontic STIT ('See To It That') logics used to formally reason about choice-making, obligations, and norms in a multi-agent setting. We leverage these calculi to write…

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A {\it dynamic reasoning system} (DRS) is an adaptation of a conventional formal logical system that explicitly portrays reasoning as a temporal activity, with each extralogical input to the system and each inference rule application being…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Daniel G. Schwartz

The ubiquity of systems using artificial intelligence or "AI" has brought increasing attention to how those systems should be regulated. The choice of how to regulate AI systems will require care. AI systems have the potential to synthesize…

The deployment of autonomous systems in uncertain and dynamic environments has raised fundamental questions. Addressing these is pivotal to build fully autonomous systems and requires a systematic integration of planning and control. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Lars Lindemann , George J. Pappas , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Autonomous driving has gained much attention from both industry and academia. Currently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used for perception and control in autonomous driving. However, several fatal accidents caused by autonomous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yao Deng , Xi Zheng , Tianyi Zhang , Guannan Lou , Huai liu , Miryung Kim , Tsong Yueh Chen

Many decision-making scenarios in modern life benefit from the decision support of artificial intelligence algorithms, which focus on a data-driven philosophy and automated programs or systems. However, crucial decision issues related to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xia Wang , Anda Liang , Jonathan Sprinkle , Taylor T. Johnson

The design of a complex system warrants a compositional methodology, i.e., composing simple components to obtain a larger system that exhibits their collective behavior in a meaningful way. We propose an automaton-based paradigm for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Tobias Kappé , Farhad Arbab , Carolyn Talcott

This position paper briefly discusses nudging, its use by autonomous agents, potential risks and ethical considerations while creating such systems. Instead of taking a normative approach, which guides all situations, the paper proposes a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Vivek Nallur , Karen Renaud , Aleksei Gudkov

A question we can ask of multi-agent systems is whether the agents' collective interaction satisfies particular goals or specifications, which can be either individual or collective. When a collaborative goal is not reached, or a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Karam Kharraz , Shaun Azzopardi , Gerardo Schneider , Martin Leucker

Self-driving cars and autonomous driving research has been receiving considerable attention as major promising prospects in modern artificial intelligence applications. According to the evolution of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Won Joon Yun , MyungJae Shin , Soyi Jung , Sean Kwon , Joongheon Kim

Resilience to damage, component degradation, and adversarial action is a critical consideration in design of autonomous systems. In addition to designing strategies that seek to prevent such negative events, it is vital that an autonomous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Matija Bucic , Melkior Ornik , Ufuk Topcu

This paper explores the role and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, specifically AI-based software elements, in autonomous driving systems. These AI systems are fundamental in executing real-time critical functions in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Mandar Pitale , Alireza Abbaspour , Devesh Upadhyay

The potential to improve road safety, reduce human driving error, and promote environmental sustainability have enabled the field of autonomous driving to progress rapidly over recent decades. The performance of autonomous vehicles has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sara Montese , Victor Gimenez-Abalos , Atia Cortés , Ulises Cortés , Sergio Alvarez-Napagao

As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly agentic, capable of general reasoning, planning, and value prioritization, current safety practices that treat obedience as a proxy for ethical behavior are becoming inadequate. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Joseph Boland

This paper addresses the problem of temporal logic motion planning for an autonomous robot operating in an unknown environment. The objective is to enable the robot to satisfy a syntactically co-safe Linear Temporal Logic (scLTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Azizollah Taheri , Derya Aksaray

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is shifting from conversational assistants toward agentic systems -- autonomous decision-making systems that sense, decide, and act within operational workflows. This shift creates an autonomy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tinglong Dai , David Simchi-Levi , Michelle Xiao Wu , Yao Xie

The challenges in providing convincing arguments for safe and correct behavior of automated driving (AD) systems have so far hindered their widespread commercial deployment. Conventional development approaches such as testing and simulation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Yuvaraj Selvaraj , Wolfgang Ahrendt , Martin Fabian

In high-level Autonomous Driving (AD) systems, behavioral planning is in charge of making high-level driving decisions such as cruising and stopping, and thus highly securitycritical. In this work, we perform the first systematic study of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Ziwen Wan , Junjie Shen , Jalen Chuang , Xin Xia , Joshua Garcia , Jiaqi Ma , Qi Alfred Chen

Artificial Intelligence (AI) logic formalizes the reasoning of intelligent agents. In this paper, we discuss how an argumentation-based AI logic could be used also to formalize important aspects of social reasoning. Besides reasoning about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Huimin Dong , Réka Markovich , Leendert van der Torre

In today's digital landscape, the Web has become increasingly centralized, raising concerns about user privacy violations. Decentralized Web architectures, such as Solid, offer a promising solution by empowering users with better control…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Rui Zhao , Jun Zhao