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Proof-theoretic semantics, and base-extension semantics in particular, can be seen as a logical realization of inferentialism, in which the meaning of expressions is understood through their use. We present a base-extension semantics for…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Timo Eckhardt , David J. Pym

Knowing whether a proposition is true means knowing that it is true or knowing that it is false. In this paper, we study logics with a modal operator Kw for knowing whether but without a modal operator K for knowing that. This logic is not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Jie Fan , Yanjing Wang , Hans van Ditmarsch

Creating anonymity means cutting connections. A common goal in this context is to prevent accountability. This prevention of accountability can be problematic, for example, if it leads to delinquents remaining undetected. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Paula Helm

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

In this paper we introduce public announcement logic in different geometric frameworks. First, we consider topological models, and then extend our discussion to a more expressive model, namely, subset space models. Furthermore, we prove the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Can Baskent

We consider the privacy problem in data publishing: given a relation I containing sensitive information 'anonymize' it to obtain a view V such that, on one hand attackers cannot learn any sensitive information from V, and on the other hand…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vibhor Rastogi , Dan Suciu , Sungho Hong

Private signals model noisy information about an unknown state. Although these signals are called "private," they may still carry information about each other. Our paper introduces the concept of private private signals, which contain…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-06 Kevin He , Fedor Sandomirskiy , Omer Tamuz

Gossip protocols aim at arriving, by means of point-to-point or group communications, at a situation in which all the agents know each other secrets. Recently a number of authors studied distributed epistemic gossip protocols. These…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Krzysztof R. Apt , Dominik Wojtczak

Reasoning abilities of human beings are limited. Logics that treat logical inference for human knowledge should reflect these limited abilities. Logic of awareness is one of those logics. In the logic, what an agent with a limited reasoning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Yudai Kubono

This paper demonstrates the undecidability of a number of logics with quantification over public announcements: arbitrary public announcement logic (APAL), group announcement logic (GAL), and coalition announcement logic (CAL). In APAL we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Thomas Ågotnes , Hans van Ditmarsch , Tim French

Dynamic epistemic logics consider formal representations of agents' knowledge, and how the knowledge of agents changes in response to informative events, such as public announcements. Quantifying over informative events allows us to ask…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Hans van Ditmarsch , Tim French , Rustam Galimullin

The aim of this study is to formally express awareness for modeling practical agent communication. The notion of awareness has been proposed as a set of propositions for each agent, to which he/she pays attention, and has contributed to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yudai Kubono , Teeradaj Racharak , Satoshi Tojo

We provide a framework for reasoning about information-hiding requirements in multiagent systems and for reasoning about anonymity in particular. Our framework employs the modal logic of knowledge within the context of the runs and systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph Y. Halpern , Kevin R. O'Neill

Arbitrary Public Announcement Logic with Common Knowledge (APALC) is an extension of Public Announcement Logic with common knowledge modality and quantifiers over announcements. We show that the satisfiability problem of APALC on S5-models,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Rustam Galimullin , Louwe B. Kuijer

Anonymizing sensitive information in user text is essential for privacy, yet existing methods often apply uniform treatment across attributes, which can conflict with communicative intent and obscure necessary information. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Weihao Shen , Yaxin Xu , Shuang Li , Wei Chen , Yuqin Lan , Meng Yuan , Fuzhen Zhuang

Public observation logic (POL) reasons about agent expectations and agent observations in various real world situations. The expectations of agents take shape based on certain protocols about the world around and they remove those possible…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sourav Chakraborty , Avijeet Ghosh , Sujata Ghosh , François Schwarzentruber

When studying safety properties of (formal) protocol models, it is customary to view the scheduler as an adversary: an entity trying to falsify the safety property. We show that in the context of security protocols, and in particular of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-06-08 Flavio D. Garcia , Peter van Rossum , Ana Sokolova

There has been significant interest of late in generating behavior of agents that is interpretable to the human (observer) in the loop. However, the work in this area has typically lacked coherence on the topic, with proposed solutions for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tathagata Chakraborti , Anagha Kulkarni , Sarath Sreedharan , David E. Smith , Subbarao Kambhampati

Numerous studies have revealed biases within the scientific communication system and across all scientific fields. For example, already prominent researchers receive disproportional credit compared to their (almost) equally qualified…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Paul H. P. Hanel

We provide an epistemic analysis of arbitrary strategic games based on possibility correspondences. We first establish a generic result that links true common beliefs (and, respectively, common knowledge) of players' rationality defined by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-07 Krzysztof R. Apt , Jonathan A. Zvesper