Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reason\ ing (KR-08)

Dynamic Logic on Games with Structured Strategies

R. Ramanujam and Sunil Simon

Proc. Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-08), pages 49-58, AAAI Press, 2008.

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Abstract

We consider a propositional dynamic logic whose programs are regular expressions over game - strategy pairs. At the atomic level, these are finite extensive form game trees with structured strategy specifications, whereby a player's strategy may depend on properties of the opponent's strategy. The advantage of imposing structure not merely on games or on strategies but on game - strategy pairs, is that we can speak of a composite game g followed by g' whereby if the opponent played a strategy s in g, the player responds with s' in g' to ensure a certain outcome. In the presence of iteration, a player has significant ability to strategise taking into account the explicit structure of games. We present a complete axiomatization of the logic and prove its decidability. The tools used combine techniques from PDL, CTL and game logics.


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