Exploring the tractability border in epistemic tasks.

We analyse the computational complexity of comparing informational structures. Intuitively, we study the complexity of deciding queries such as the following: Is Alice's epistemic information strictly coarser than Bob's? Do Alice and Bob have the same knowledge about each other's knowledge? Is it po...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 191; no. 3; pp. 371 - 409
Autores principales: Dégremont, Cédric, Kurzen, Lena, Szymanik, Jakub
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Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2014
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          Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Groningen The Netherlands
          Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam The Netherlands
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        Epistemic logic
        Computational complexity
        Decision making
        Comparative studies
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        Epistemic reasoning
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