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An Epistemic Separation Logic

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Logic, Language, Information, and Computation (WoLLIC 2015)

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We define an Epistemic Separation Logic, called ESL, that allows us to consider epistemic possible worlds as resources that can be shared or separated, in the spirit of separation logics. After studying the semantics and the expressiveness of this logic, we provide a tableau calculus with labels and resource contraints that is sound and complete and then also study countermodel extraction.

Work partially supported by the ANR grant DynRes (project no. ANR-11-BS02-011) and by the EU ERC project EPS 313360. Hans van Ditmarsch is also affiliated to IMSc, Chennai, India, as research associate.

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  1. Université de Lorraine, LORIA, UMR 7503, 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

    Jean-René Courtault, Hans van Ditmarsch & Didier Galmiche

  2. CNRS, LORIA, UMR 7503, 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

    Jean-René Courtault, Hans van Ditmarsch & Didier Galmiche

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Courtault, JR., van Ditmarsch, H., Galmiche, D. (2015). An Epistemic Separation Logic. In: de Paiva, V., de Queiroz, R., Moss, L., Leivant, D., de Oliveira, A. (eds) Logic, Language, Information, and Computation. WoLLIC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47709-0_12

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