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In this paper we study the logical principles of a common type of network communication events that haven’t been studied from a logical perspective before, namely network announcements, or tweeting, i.e., simultaneously sending a message to all your friends in a social network. In particular, we develop and study a minimal modal logic for reasoning about propositional network announcements. The logical formalisation helps elucidate core logical principles of network announcements, as well as a number of assumptions that must be made in such reasoning. The main results are sound and complete axiomatisations.
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The first author is supported by Projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China under research no. 15AZX020.
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Xiong, Z., Ågotnes, T., Seligman, J., Zhu, R. (2017). Towards a Logic of Tweeting. In: Baltag, A., Seligman, J., Yamada, T. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10455. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55665-8_4
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