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Consider a community of scientists whose labs are each capable of conducting a different set of experiments. The scientists want to work together to confirm a new hypothesis, but to ensure blindness, their labs generally prohibit the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Siddharth Namachivayam

A reliable modeling of uncertain evidence in Bayesian networks based on a set-valued quantification is proposed. Both soft and virtual evidences are considered. We show that evidence propagation in this setup can be reduced to standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Sabina Marchetti , Alessandro Antonucci

Justification logics are epistemic logics that explicitly include justifications for the agents' knowledge. We develop a multi-agent justification logic with evidence terms for individual agents as well as for common knowledge. We define a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Samuel Bucheli , Roman Kuznets , Thomas Studer

A model of knowledge representation is described in which propositional facts and the relationships among them can be supported by other facts. The set of knowledge which can be supported is called the set of cognitive units, each having…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-12 A. Julian Craddock , Roger A. Browse

Distributed knowledge is one of the better known group knowledge modalities. While its intuitive idea is relatively clear, there is ample room for interpretation of details. We investigate 12 definitions of distributed knowledge that differ…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Rustam Galimullin , Louwe B. Kuijer

Dynamic epistemic logics which model abilities of agents to make various announcements and influence each other's knowledge have been studied extensively in recent years. Two notable examples of such logics are Group Announcement Logic and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Rustam Galimullin , Natasha Alechina

Dynamic epistemic logics which model abilities of agents to make various announcements and influence each other's knowledge have been studied extensively in recent years. Two notable examples of such logics are Group Announcement Logic and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Rustam Galimullin , Natasha Alechina

We introduce a new semantics for a logic of explicit and implicit beliefs based on the concept of multi-agent belief base. Differently from existing Kripke-style semantics for epistemic logic in which the notions of possible world and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Emiliano Lorini

One problem to solve in the context of information fusion, decision-making, and other artificial intelligence challenges is to compute justified beliefs based on evidence. In real-life examples, this evidence may be inconsistent,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Daira Pinto Prieto , Ronald de Haan , Aybüke Özgün

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings where good decisions require forming beliefs over the probability of unknown outcomes. However, it is unclear whether LLMs act as if they hold coherent beliefs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Khurram Yamin , Jingjing Tang , Santiago Cortes-Gomez , Amit Sharma , Eric Horvitz , Bryan Wilder

We introduce a new 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 2021-06-23 Carlos Areces , Raul Fervari , Andrés R. Saravia , Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada

This paper presents a formal theory of verification and validation (V&V) within systems engineering, grounded in the axiom that V&V are fundamentally knowledge-building activities. Using dynamic epistemic modal logic, we develop precise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Hanumanthrao Kannan , Alejandro Salado

Topological models of empirical and formal inquiry are increasingly prevalent. They have emerged in such diverse fields as domain theory [1, 16], formal learning theory [18], epistemology and philosophy of science [10, 15, 8, 9, 2],…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Konstantin Genin , Kevin T. Kelly

In formal epistemology, group knowledge is often modelled as the knowledge that the group would have, if the agents shared all their individual knowledge. However, this interpretation does not account for relations between agents. In this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Christian Cachin , David Lehnherr , Thomas Studer

As a technically challenging topic, visual storytelling aims at generating an imaginary and coherent story with narrative multi-sentences from a group of relevant images. Existing methods often generate direct and rigid descriptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Tengpeng Li , Hanli Wang , Bin He , Chang Wen Chen

This paper studies knowledge representation in multi-agent environment. We investigate technique for computation truth-values of statements based at a new temporal, agent's-knowledge logic TL. A logical language, mathematical symbolic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Maybin Muyeba , Vladimir Rybakov

We present a logical system that combines the well-known classical epistemic concepts of belief and knowledge with a concept of evidence such that the intuitive principle \textit{`evidence yields belief and knowledge'} is satisfied. Our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Steffen Lewitzka , Vinícius Pinto

Knowledge-based programs specify multi-agent protocols with epistemic guards that abstract from how agents learn and record facts or information about other agents and the environment. Their interpretation involves a non-monotone mutual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Alexander Knapp , Heribert Mühlberger , Bernhard Reus

Epistemic logics typically talk about knowledge of individual agents or groups of explicitly listed agents. Often, however, one wishes to express knowledge of groups of agents specified by a given property, as in `it is common knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Merlin Humml , Lutz Schröder

In this paper we provide a unifying description of different types of semantics of modal logic found in the literature via the framework of topological categories. In the style of categorical logic, we establish an exact correspondence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Lingyuan Ye