Combining Epistemic Logic and Hennessy-Milner Logic

Sophia Knight (1) , Radu Mardare (2) , Prakash Panangaden

1 COMETE - Concurrency, Mobility and Transactions
2 AAU - Aalborg University [Denmark]

We define an epistemic logic for labelled transition systems by introducing equivalence relations for the agents on the states of the labelled transition system. The idea is that agents observe the dynamics of the system modulo their ability to distinguish states and in the process learn about the current state and past history of the execution. This is in the spirit of dynamic epistemic logic but is a direct combination of Hennessy-Milner logic and epistemic logic. We give an axiomatization for the for the logic and prove a completeness theorem with respect to the class of models obtained by unfolding labelled transition systems.

Mots clés: Modal logic; epistemic logic; completeness; dynamic logic; unfolding

Domaines: Logique en informatique [cs.LO]

Sophia Knight, Radu Mardare, Prakash Panangaden. Combining Epistemic Logic and Hennessy-Milner Logic. Logic and Program Semantics - Essays Dedicated to Dexter Kozen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Apr 2012, Ithaca, United States. pp.219-243, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-29485-3_14⟩. ⟨hal-00760967⟩