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Coalitional Public Announcement Games

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PRIMA 2012: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2012)

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Dynamic epistemic logic (del) is a popular framework for studying interaction in multi-agent systems. dels describe the actions available to the agents, and their epistemic pre- and post-conditions. By extending standard epistemic models with preferences over epistemic states, we can say something about rational behaviour as well, combining logic and game theory. In this paper we assume that preferences are represented by epistemic goal formulae, and actions are public announcements as described by public announcement logic. We are interested in analysing coalition formation and in particular coalitional stability in such settings. To this end, we describe how such epistemic goal models can be viewed as coalitional (cooperative) games, and study and characterise the resulting class of games and their solutions in different ways. We use a model of coalitional games under imperfect information that is more natural for many logical and computational settings than most existing models, and propose some related solution concepts extending the notion of the core under common knowledge.

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  1. University of Bergen, Norway

    Thomas Ågotnes

  2. University of Sevilla, Spain

    Hans van Ditmarsch

  3. IMSc, Chennai, India

    Hans van Ditmarsch

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  1. Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Iyad Rahwan

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Wayne Wobcke

  3. Tandy School of Computer Science, University of Tulsa, Rayzor Hall, 3155 East 5th Place, 74104, Tulsa, OK, USA

    Sandip Sen

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, 169-8555, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

    Toshiharu Sugawara

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Ågotnes, T., van Ditmarsch, H. (2012). Coalitional Public Announcement Games. In: Rahwan, I., Wobcke, W., Sen, S., Sugawara, T. (eds) PRIMA 2012: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7455. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32729-2_1

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