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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

We propose a many-sorted modal logic for reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent systems. Our logic introduces a clear distinction between participating agents and the environment. This allows to express local properties of agents and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Eric Goubault , Roman Kniazev , Jérémy Ledent

Communication of information in complex systems can be considered as major driver of systems evolution. What matters is not the communicated information by itself but rather the meaning that is supplied to the information. However…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Inga Ivanova

Common knowledge/belief in rationality is the traditional standard assumption in analysing interaction among agents. This paper proposes a graph-based language for capturing significantly more complicated structures of higher-order beliefs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Qi Shi , Pavel Naumov

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a powerful primitive that allows a set of processes to agree on a message from a designated sender, even if some processes (including the sender) are Byzantine. Existing broadcast protocols for this setting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Rachid Guerraoui , Petr Kuznetsov , Matteo Monti , Matej Pavlovic , Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi , Yann Vonlanthen

Information sharing is key in building team cognition and enables coordination and cooperation. High-performing human teams also benefit from acting strategically with hierarchical levels of iterated communication and rationalizability,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sachin Konan , Esmaeil Seraj , Matthew Gombolay

Autonomous agents are supposed to be able to finish tasks or achieve goals that are assigned by their users through performing a sequence of actions. Since there might exist multiple plans that an agent can follow and each plan might…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jieting Luo , Beishui Liao , Dov Gabbay

Robustness to Byzantine attacks is a necessity for various distributed training scenarios. When the training reduces to the process of solving a minimization problem, Byzantine robustness is relatively well-understood. However, other…

The paper considers epistemic properties of linear communication chains. It describes a sound and complete logical system that, in addition to the standard axioms of S5 in a multi-modal language, contains two non-trivial axioms that capture…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Jeffrey Kane , Pavel Naumov

We introduce a novel semantics for a multi-agent epistemic operator of knowing how, based on an indistinguishability relation between plans. Our proposal is, arguably, closer to the standard presentation of knowing that modalities in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Carlos Areces , Raul Fervari , Andrés R. Saravia , Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada

The usual epistemic model S5n for a multi-agent system is based on a Kripke frame, which is a graph whose edges are labeled with agents that do not distinguish between two states. We propose to uncover the higher dimensional information…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Éric Goubault , Jérémy Ledent , Sergio Rajsbaum

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

Recent advances in generative AI have enabled sophisticated multi-agent architectures for healthcare, where large language models power collaborative clinical decision-making. However, these distributed systems face critical challenges in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nihir Chadderwala

Collaborative decision making in multi-agent systems typically requires a predefined communication protocol among agents. Usually, agent-level observations are locally processed and information is exchanged using the predefined protocol,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Homagni Saha , Vijay Venkataraman , Alberto Speranzon , Soumik Sarkar

Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) has been extensively studied in distributed trustless systems to guarantee system's functioning when up to 1/3 Byzantine processes exist. Despite a plethora of previous work in BFT systems, they are mainly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Quan Nguyen , Andre Cronje

We study a distributed computation problem in the presence of Byzantine workers where a central node wishes to solve a task that is divided into independent sub-tasks, each of which needs to be solved correctly. The distributed computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aayush Rajesh , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Effective coordination of agents actions in partially-observable domains is a major challenge of multi-agent systems research. To address this, many researchers have developed techniques that allow the agents to make decisions based on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-09-28 P. S. Dutta , N. R. Jennings , L. Moreau

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 2017-03-08 Samuel Bucheli , Meghdad Ghari , Thomas Studer

In Byzantine agreement with predictions each process begins with an input value and some (unreliable) prediction bits. Recently, it has been shown that with \emph{classification predictions} -- where the predictions predict each process to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Muhammad Ayaz Dzulfikar , Seth Gilbert

Classical logics of knowledge and belief are usually interpreted on Kripke models, for which a mathematically well-developed model theory is available. However, such models are inadequate to capture dynamic phenomena. Therefore, epistemic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Lorenz Demey