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Modal and Justification Logics for Multi-agent Systems (Invited Talk)

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Epistemic modal logic is an important tool in the area of distributed and multi-agent systems.

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Cachin, C., Lehnherr, D., Studer, T. (2023). Modal and Justification Logics for Multi-agent Systems (Invited Talk). In: Herzig, A., Luo, J., Pardo, P. (eds) Logic and Argumentation. CLAR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14156. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40875-5_1

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