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Investigating Agent Influence and Nested Other-Agent Behaviour

Authors:
Robert Logie
Jon G. Hall
Kevin G. Waugh

Keywords: Cooperative systems; Stochastic logic; Stochastic automata; Adaptive systems;

Abstract:
Stit theory, the notion of an agent’s capacity for guaranteeing – or s-eeing t-o it – that a state of affairs arrives, provides a rich semantic framework for manipulating agent ability. However, the syntax of stit readily allows for nesting and such nested statements are not easily imbued with meaning. In this article, and in related work, we introduce and explore a partial logical characterisation of an alternative reading for stit based on a novel interpretation of agent influence that allows meaningful nested agent expressions.

Pages: 106 to 120

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2010. Used with permission.

Publication date: September 5, 2010

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679