Reasoning About Knowledge on Regular Expressions is 2EXPTIME-complete

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Main Authors: Ghosh, Avijeet, Ghosh, Sujata, Schwarzentruber, François
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Published: 2025
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author Ghosh, Avijeet
Ghosh, Sujata
Schwarzentruber, François
author_facet Ghosh, Avijeet
Ghosh, Sujata
Schwarzentruber, François
contents Logics for reasoning about knowledge and actions have seen many applications in various domains of multi-agent systems, including epistemic planning. Change of knowledge based on observations about the surroundings forms a key aspect in such planning scenarios. Public Observation Logic (POL) is a variant of public announcement logic for reasoning about knowledge that gets updated based on public observations. Each state in an epistemic (Kripke) model is equipped with a set of expected observations. These states evolve as the expectations get matched with the actual observations. In this work, we prove that the satisfiability problem of $\POL$ is 2EXPTIME-complete.
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spellingShingle Reasoning About Knowledge on Regular Expressions is 2EXPTIME-complete
Ghosh, Avijeet
Ghosh, Sujata
Schwarzentruber, François
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Complexity
Logic in Computer Science
Logics for reasoning about knowledge and actions have seen many applications in various domains of multi-agent systems, including epistemic planning. Change of knowledge based on observations about the surroundings forms a key aspect in such planning scenarios. Public Observation Logic (POL) is a variant of public announcement logic for reasoning about knowledge that gets updated based on public observations. Each state in an epistemic (Kripke) model is equipped with a set of expected observations. These states evolve as the expectations get matched with the actual observations. In this work, we prove that the satisfiability problem of $\POL$ is 2EXPTIME-complete.
title Reasoning About Knowledge on Regular Expressions is 2EXPTIME-complete
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computational Complexity
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09784