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Despite recent advances in automating theorem proving in full first-order theories, inductive reasoning still poses a serious challenge to state-of-the-art theorem provers. The reason for that is that in first-order logic induction requires…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Johannes Schoisswohl , Laura Kovács

Applying automated reasoning tools for decision support and analysis in law has the potential to make court decisions more transparent and objective. Since there is often uncertainty about the accuracy and relevance of evidence,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Inga Ibs , Nico Potyka

Standard epistemic logic studies propositional knowledge, yet many other types of knowledge such as "knowing whether", "knowing what", "knowing how" are frequently and widely used in everyday life as well as academic fields. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yifeng Ding

We characterize three interrelated concepts in epistemic game theory: permissibility, proper rationalizability, and iterated admissibility. We define the lexicographic epistemic model for a game with incomplete information. Based on it, we…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2018-11-07 Shuige Liu

A critical failure mode of current lifelong agents is not lack of knowledge, but the inability to decide how to reason. When an agent encounters "Is this coin fair?" it must recognize whether to invoke frequentist hypothesis testing or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhaohui Geoffrey Wang

Despite recent advances in automating theorem proving in full first-order theories, inductive reasoning still poses a serious challenge to state-of-the-art theorem provers. The reason for that is that in first-order logic induction requires…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Johannes Schoisswohl , Laura Kovacs

Learning models do not in general imply that weakly dominated strategies are irrelevant or justify the related concept of "forward induction," because rational agents may use dominated strategies as experiments to learn how opponents play,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-11-15 Daniel Clark , Drew Fudenberg , Kevin He

The paper presents an extension of temporal epistemic logic with operators that quantify over strategies. The language also provides a natural way to represent what agents would know were they to be aware of the strategies being used by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Xiaowei Huang , Ron van der Meyden

This paper revisits the multi-agent epistemic logic presented in [10], where agents and sets of agents are replaced by abstract, intensional "names". We make three contributions. First, we study its model theory, providing adequate notions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Marta Bílková , Zoé Christoff , Olivier Roy

Formal logic enables computers to reason in natural language by representing sentences in symbolic forms and applying rules to derive conclusions. However, in what our study characterizes as "rulebreaker" scenarios, this method can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jason Chan , Robert Gaizauskas , Zhixue Zhao

Propositional and modal inclusion logic are formalisms that belong to the family of logics based on team semantics. This article investigates the model checking and validity problems of these logics. We identify complexity bounds for both…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Lauri Hella , Antti Kuusisto , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema

Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) is a logical framework in which one can describe in great detail how actions are perceived by the agents, and how they affect the world. DEL games were recently introduced as a way to define classes of games…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano , Sophie Pinchinat , François Schwarzentruber , Silvia Stranieri

Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) is a family of multimodal logics that has proved to be very successful for epistemic reasoning in planning tasks. In this logic, the agent's knowledge is captured by modal epistemic operators whereas the system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Pedro Cabalar , Jorge Fandinno , Luis Fariñas del Cerro

Through a series of examples, we illustrate some important drawbacks that the action logic framework suffers from in its ability to represent the dynamics of information updates. We argue that these problems stem from the fact that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Will Nalls , Adam Bjorndahl

Algorithms of inference in a computer system oriented to input and semantic processing of text information are presented. Such inference is necessary for logical questions when the direct comparison of objects from a question and database…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-02-02 Yuriy Ostapov

When reasoning in description, modal or temporal logics it is often useful to consider axioms representing universal truths in the domain of discourse. Reasoning with respect to an arbitrary set of axioms is hard, even for relatively…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Horrocks , Stephan Tobies

Standard models of multi-agent modal logic do not capture the fact that information is often \emph{ambiguous}, and may be interpreted in different ways by different agents. We propose a framework that can model this, and consider different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Joseph Y. Halpern , Willemien Kets

In this paper, we propose a novel formalism called Probabilistic Obstruction Temporal Logic (POTL), which extends Obstruction Logic (OL) by incorporating probabilistic elements. POTL provides a robust framework for reasoning about the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jean Leneutre , Vadim Malvone , James Ortiz

Standard epistemic logics introduce a modal operator K to represent knowledge, but in doing so they presuppose the logical apparatus they aim to explain. By contrast, this paper explores how logic may be derived from the structure of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alexader V. Gheorghiu , Tao Gu

In the literature, essence is formalized in two different ways, either de dicto, or de re. Following \cite{Marcos:2005}, we adopt its de dicto formalization: a formula is essential, if once it is true, it is necessarily true; otherwise, it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Jie Fan