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This paper presents a two-dimensional modal logic for reasoning about the changing patterns of knowledge and social relationships in networks organised on the basis of a symmetric 'friendship' relation, providing a precise language for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Jeremy Seligman , Fenrong Liu , Patrick Girard

As multi-agent AI systems evolve from simple chatbots to autonomous swarms, debugging semantic failures requires reasoning about knowledge, belief, causality, and obligation, precisely what modal logic was designed to formalize. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Antonin Sulc

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

The classical view of epistemic logic is that an agent knows all the logical consequences of their knowledge base. This assumption of logical omniscience is often unrealistic and makes reasoning computationally intractable. One approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Yijia Chen , Abdallah Saffidine , Christoph Schwering

We provide algebraic semantics together with a sound and complete sequent calculus for information update due to epistemic actions. This semantics is flexible enough to accommodate incomplete as well as wrong information e.g.due to secrecy…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandru Baltag , Bob Coecke , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

We develop a proof-theoretic semantics -- in particular, a base-extension semantics -- for multi-agent S5 modal logic (and hence also for the usual unindexed S5). Following the inferentialist interpretation of logic, this gives us a…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Timo Eckhardt , David Pym

The tension between deduction and induction is perhaps the most fundamental issue in areas such as philosophy, cognition and artificial intelligence. In an influential paper, Valiant recognised that the challenge of learning should be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ionela G. Mocanu , Vaishak Belle , Brendan Juba

I introduce PEDAL -- a probabilistic epistemic logic meant to capture, in propositional dynamic terms, the epistemic state of an agent engaged in checking whether a program meets its specification. Semantically, PEDAL is built `on top of'…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Shay Allen Logan

In standard epistemic logic, knowing that p is the same as knowing that p is true, but it does not say anything about understanding p or knowing its meaning. In this paper, we present a conservative extension of Public Announcement Logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Malvin Gattinger , Yanjing Wang

Propositional Dynamic Logic or PDL was invented as a logic for reasoning about regular programming constructs. We propose a new perspective on PDL as a multi-agent strategic logic (MASL). This logic for strategic reasoning has group…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Jan van Eijck

Epistemic planning extends (multi-agent) automated planning by making agents' knowledge and beliefs first-class aspects of the planning formalism. One of the most well-known frameworks for epistemic planning is Dynamic Epistemic Logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Alessandro Burigana , Francesco Fabiano

Despite the fact that beliefs are mental states that cannot be directly observed, humans talk about each others' beliefs on a regular basis, often using rich compositional language to describe what others think and know. What explains this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Lance Ying , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Lionel Wong , Vikash Mansinghka , Joshua Tenenbaum

Where information grows abundant, attention becomes a scarce resource. As a result, agents must plan wisely how to allocate their attention in order to achieve epistemic efficiency. Here, we present a framework for multi-agent epistemic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Gaia Belardinelli , Rasmus K. Rendsvig

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

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

We introduce an expressive probabilistic temporal epistemic logic PTEL suitable to reason about uncertain knowledge of a non-rigid set of agents that can be changed during time. We define semantics for PTEL as Kripke models with epistemic…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Zoran Ognjanović , Angelina Ilić Stepić , Aleksandar Perović

Although Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) is an influential logical framework for representing and reasoning about information change, little is known about the computational complexity of its associated decision problems. In fact, we only…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Guillaume Aucher , Francois Schwarzentruber

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

In this paper, we address the logic of knowing why, an example of a non-standard epistemic logic dealing with justified knowledge via a new epistemic operator, under the extensions with ideas from dynamic epistemic logic, namely public…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Nicholas Pischke

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to domains that require reasoning about other agents' behavior, such as negotiation, policy design, and market simulation, yet existing research has mostly evaluated their adherence to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Enric Junque de Fortuny , Veronica Roberta Cappelli