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Article Dans Une Revue Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Année : 2016

Big Brother Logic: visual-epistemic reasoning in stationary multi-agent systems

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We consider multi-agent scenarios where each agent controls a surveillance camera in the plane, with fixed position and angle of vision, but rotating freely. The agents can thus observe the surroundings and each other. They can also reason about each other's observation abilities and knowledge derived from these observations. We introduce suitable logical languages for reasoning about such scenarios which involve atomic formulae stating what agents can see, multi-agent epistemic operators for individual, distributed and common knowledge, as well as dynamic operators reflecting the ability of cameras to turn around in order to reach positions satisfying formulae in the language. We also consider effects of public announcements. We introduce several different but equivalent versions of the semantics for these languages, discuss their expressiveness and provide translations in PDL style. Using these translations we develop algorithms and obtain complexity results for model checking and satisfiability testing for the basic logic BBL that we introduce here and for some of its extensions. Notably, we show that even for the extension with common knowledge, model checking and satisfiability testing remain in PSPACE. We also discuss the sensitivity of the set of validities to the admissible angles of vision of the agents' cameras. Finally, we discuss some further extensions: adding obstacles, positioning the cameras in 3D or enabling them to change positions. Our work has potential applications to automated reasoning, formal specification and verification of observational abilities and knowledge of multi-robot systems.
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hal-01624691 , version 1 (02-12-2021)

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Olivier Gasquet, Valentin Goranko, François Schwarzentruber. Big Brother Logic: visual-epistemic reasoning in stationary multi-agent systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2016, 30, pp.793-825. ⟨10.1007/s10458-015-9306-4⟩. ⟨hal-01624691⟩
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