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This paper develops a formalism combining elements of epistemic and nonmonotonic logic, which is applied to the general topic of modeling the attitudes of other agents, and in particular to the problem of achieving mutuality.
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Thomason, R.H. (2000). Modeling the Beliefs of other Agents. In: Minker, J. (eds) Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 597. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1567-8_17
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