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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Haar, Stefan
• Perchy, Salim
• Rueda, Camilo
• Valencia, Frank

Titel

An algebraic view of space/belief and extrusion/utterance for concurrency/epistemic logic

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, 2015, p.161-172

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY, USA: ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

ACM Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We enrich spatial constraint systems with operators to specify information and processes moving from a space to another. We shall refer to these news structures as spatial constraint systems with extrusion. We shall investigate the properties of this new family of constraint systems and illustrate their applications. From a computational point of view the new operators provide for process/information extrusion, a central concept in formalisms for mobile communication. From an epistemic point of view extrusion corresponds to a notion we shall call utterance; a piece of information that an agent communicates to others but that may be inconsistent with the agent's beliefs. Utterances can then be used to express instances of epistemic notions, which are common place in social media, such as hoaxes or intentional lies. Spatial constraint systems with extrusion can be seen as complete Heyting algebras equipped with maps to account for spatial and epistemic specifications.