Title
What groups do, can do, and know they can do: an analysis in normal modal logics
Abstract
We investigate a series of logics that allow to reason about agents' actions, abilities, and their knowledge about actions and abilities. These logics include Pauly's Coalition Logic CL, Alternating-time Temporal Logic ATL, the logic of 'seeing-to-it-that' (STIT), and epistemic extensions thereof. While complete axiomatizations of CL and ATL exist, only the fragment of the STIT language without temporal operators and without groups has been axiomatized by Xu (called Ldm). We start by recalling a simplification of the Ldm that has been proposed in previous work, together with an alternative semantics in terms of standard Kripke models. We extend that semantics to groups via a principle of superadditivity, and give a sound and complete axiomatization that we call Ldm G. We then add a temporal 'next' operator to Ldm G , and again give a sound and complete axiomatization. We show that Ldm G subsumes coalition logic CL. Finally, we extend these logics with standard S5 knowledge operators. This enables us to express that agents see to something under uncertainty about the present state or uncertainty about which action is being taken. We focus on the epistemic extension of X-Ldm G , noted E-X-Ldm G. In accordance with established terminology in the planning community, we call this extension of X-Ldm G the conformant X-Ldm G. The conformant X-Ldm G enables us to express that agents are able to perform a uniform strategy. We conclude that in that respect, our epistemic extension of X-Ldm G is better suited than epistemic extensions of ATL.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.3166/jancl.19.261-290
Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics
Keywords
Field
DocType
atl,epistemic logic,stit,cl,agency,uniform strategies,modal logic
Epistemic modal logic,Discrete mathematics,Normal modal logic,Kripke semantics,Multimodal logic,Algorithm,Linear temporal logic,Modal logic,Temporal logic,Intermediate logic,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
19
3
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Broersen157046.34
Andreas Herzig265548.55
Nicolas Troquard326629.54