25 research outputs found
Complexity Jumps In Multiagent Justification Logic Under Interacting Justifications
The Logic of Proofs, LP, and its successor, Justification Logic, is a
refinement of the modal logic approach to epistemology in which
proofs/justifications are taken into account. In 2000 Kuznets showed that
satisfiability for LP is in the second level of the polynomial hierarchy, a
result which has been successfully repeated for all other one-agent
justification logics whose complexity is known.
We introduce a family of multi-agent justification logics with interactions
between the agents' justifications, by extending and generalizing the two-agent
versions of the Logic of Proofs introduced by Yavorskaya in 2008. Known
concepts and tools from the single-agent justification setting are adjusted for
this multiple agent case. We present tableau rules and some preliminary
complexity results. In several cases the satisfiability problem for these
logics remains in the second level of the polynomial hierarchy, while for
others it is PSPACE or EXP-hard. Furthermore, this problem becomes PSPACE-hard
even for certain two-agent logics, while there are EXP-hard logics of three
agents
NEXP-completeness and Universal Hardness Results for Justification Logic
We provide a lower complexity bound for the satisfiability problem of a
multi-agent justification logic, establishing that the general NEXP upper bound
from our previous work is tight. We then use a simple modification of the
corresponding reduction to prove that satisfiability for all multi-agent
justification logics from there is hard for the Sigma 2 p class of the second
level of the polynomial hierarchy - given certain reasonable conditions. Our
methods improve on these required conditions for the same lower bound for the
single-agent justification logics, proven by Buss and Kuznets in 2009, thus
answering one of their open questions.Comment: Shorter version has been accepted for publication by CSR 201
Impossible and Conflicting Obligations in Justification Logic
Different notions of the consistency of obligations collapse in standard
deontic logic. In justification logics, which feature explicit reasons for
obligations, the situation is different. Their strength depends on a constant
specification and on the available set of operations for combining different
reasons. We present different consistency principles in justification logic and
compare their logical strength. We propose a novel semantics for which
justification logics with the explicit version of axiom D, jd, are complete for
arbitrary constant specifications. We then discuss the philosophical
implications with regard to some deontic paradoxes