A dynamic logic of institutional actions

We propose a logical framework to represent and reason about some important aspects of a theory of institutional action: (1) the distinctions between physical facts and actions and institutional facts and actions; (2) the distinction between causality and 'counts-as'; (3) the notion of institutional power. Technically, our contribution consists in extending a dynamic logic of propositional assignments with constructions allowing to express that an agent plays a given role; that a physical action causes another physical action; that a physical action performed by an agent playing a given role counts as an institutional action.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Herzig, Andreas
Lorini, Emiliano
Troquard, Nicolas
Source: 
COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS,12 International Conference. Proceedings, CLIMA'12, pp. 295–311, Barcelona, Spain, 17-18 July 2011
Date: 
2011
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/203958
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22359-4_21
info:doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22359-4_21
http://www.springerlink.com/content/kt2wu301vl67m254/
Language: 
Eng