Dynamic Epistemic Logic of Resource Bounded Information Mining Agents

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Main Authors: Dolgorukov, Vitaliy, Galimullin, Rustam, Gladyshev, Maksim
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Published: 2024
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author Dolgorukov, Vitaliy
Galimullin, Rustam
Gladyshev, Maksim
author_facet Dolgorukov, Vitaliy
Galimullin, Rustam
Gladyshev, Maksim
contents Logics for resource-bounded agents have been getting more and more attention in recent years since they provide us with more realistic tools for modelling and reasoning about multi-agent systems. While many existing approaches are based on the idea of agents as imperfect reasoners, who must spend their resources to perform logical inference, this is not the only way to introduce resource constraints into logical settings. In this paper we study agents as perfect reasoners, who may purchase a new piece of information from a trustworthy source. For this purpose we propose dynamic epistemic logic for semi-public queries for resource-bounded agents. In this logic (groups of) agents can perform a query (ask a question) about whether some formula is true and receive a correct answer. These queries are called semi-public, because the very fact of the query is public, while the answer is private. We also assume that every query has a cost and every agent has a budget constraint. Finally, our framework allows us to reason about group queries, in which agents may share resources to obtain a new piece of information together. We demonstrate that our logic is complete, decidable and has an efficient model checking procedure.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Epistemic Logic of Resource Bounded Information Mining Agents
Dolgorukov, Vitaliy
Galimullin, Rustam
Gladyshev, Maksim
Logic in Computer Science
Logics for resource-bounded agents have been getting more and more attention in recent years since they provide us with more realistic tools for modelling and reasoning about multi-agent systems. While many existing approaches are based on the idea of agents as imperfect reasoners, who must spend their resources to perform logical inference, this is not the only way to introduce resource constraints into logical settings. In this paper we study agents as perfect reasoners, who may purchase a new piece of information from a trustworthy source. For this purpose we propose dynamic epistemic logic for semi-public queries for resource-bounded agents. In this logic (groups of) agents can perform a query (ask a question) about whether some formula is true and receive a correct answer. These queries are called semi-public, because the very fact of the query is public, while the answer is private. We also assume that every query has a cost and every agent has a budget constraint. Finally, our framework allows us to reason about group queries, in which agents may share resources to obtain a new piece of information together. We demonstrate that our logic is complete, decidable and has an efficient model checking procedure.
title Dynamic Epistemic Logic of Resource Bounded Information Mining Agents
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13369