Groups and social scenarios

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Basic papers Historical source texts Further directions

Information flow happens with individual agents, but typically also in multi-agent scenarios of communication and interaction. Groups of agents can even become actors themselves that process information and have knowledge and beliefs. Several systems of dynamic-epistemic logic have been put forward in recent years that handle information flow and long-term belief formation in groups with social structure.

 

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Basic papers

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• Alexandru Baltag, Sonja Smets. Protocols for belief merge: Reaching agreement via communication. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 21(3):468-487, 2013. Prepublication version available.
• Fenrong Liu, Jeremy Seligman, Patrick Girard. Logical dynamics of belief change in the community. Synthese, 191(11):2403-2431, 2014.
• Alexandru Baltag, Zoé Christoff, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, Sonja Smets. Dynamic Epistemic Logic of Diffusion and Prediction in Social Networks. 2015. Prepublication version available.

 

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Historical source texts

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• Johan van Benthem. Belief update as social choice. In Dynamic Formal Epistemology, 151–160, Springer, 2011. Prepublication version available.

 

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Further directions

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• Liang Zhen, Jeremy Seligman. A Logical Model of the Dynamics of Peer Pressure. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 278:275-288, 2011.
• Anya Yermakova, Alexandru Baltag. A Dynamic-Epistemic Logic for Mobile Structured Agents. In Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality, 129-141, Springer, 2012. Prepublication version available.
• Jeremy Seligman, Fenrong Liu, Patrick Girard. Facebook and the epistemic logic of friendship. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2013), 229-238, 2013.
• Alexandru Baltag, Zoé Christoff, Jens Ulrik Hansen, Sonja Smets. Logical Models of Informational Cascades. In Logic Across the University: Foundations and Applications. Proceedings of the Tsinghua Logic Conference, Beijing, 2013, 405-432, College Publications, 2013. Prepublication version available.
• Sujata Ghosh, Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada. Agreeing to Agree: Reaching Unanimity via Preference Dynamics Based on Reliable Agents. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2015, 1491-1499, ACM, 2015. Prepublication version available.
• Zoé Christoff, Jens Ulrik Hansen, Carlo Proietti. Reflecting on Social Influence in Networks. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 25(3-4):299-333, 2016. Prepublication version available.
• Hans van Ditmarsch, Jan van Eijck, Pere Pardo, Rahim Ramezanian, François Schwarzentruber. Gossip in Dynamic Networks. In Liber Amicorum Alberti - A Tribute to Albert Visser, 91-98, College Publications, 2016. Prepublication version available.