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Imperfect Information in Alternating-Time Temporal Logic on Finite Traces

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We introduce a logic to reason about strategic abilities in finite games under imperfect information. We interpret Alternating-time Temporal Logic on interpreted systems with final states, where agents only have partial observability of the system’s global state. We consider the model checking problem in this setting. We prove that the complexity results available for the case of infinite traces carry over to the finite traces case. We show that when only public actions are allowed, the verification problem under perfect recall becomes decidable.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge support of ANR JCJC Project SVeDaS (ANR-16-CE40-0021). Alessio Lomuscio is supported by a Royal Academy Chair in Emerging Technologies.

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  1. Laboratoire IBISC, UEVE, Courcouronnes, France

    Francesco Belardinelli

  2. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Francesco Belardinelli & Alessio Lomuscio

  3. DIETI, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Naples, Italy

    Aniello Murano

  4. School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Sasha Rubin

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  1. Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Matteo Baldoni

  2. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Mehdi Dastani

  3. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Beishui Liao

  4. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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  5. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

    Rym Zalila Wenkstern

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Belardinelli, F., Lomuscio, A., Murano, A., Rubin, S. (2019). Imperfect Information in Alternating-Time Temporal Logic on Finite Traces. In: Baldoni, M., Dastani, M., Liao, B., Sakurai, Y., Zalila Wenkstern, R. (eds) PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11873. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33792-6_31

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