Fabio Mogavero ; Aniello Murano ; Giuseppe Perelli ; Moshe Y. Vardi - Reasoning about Strategies: on the Satisfiability Problem

lmcs:3204 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, March 17, 2017, Volume 13, Issue 1 - https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-13(1:9)2017
Reasoning about Strategies: on the Satisfiability ProblemArticle

Authors: Fabio Mogavero ; Aniello Murano ; Giuseppe Perelli ; Moshe Y. Vardi

    Strategy Logic (SL, for short) has been introduced by Mogavero, Murano, and Vardi as a useful formalism for reasoning explicitly about strategies, as first-order objects, in multi-agent concurrent games. This logic turns out to be very powerful, subsuming all major previously studied modal logics for strategic reasoning, including ATL, ATL*, and the like. Unfortunately, due to its high expressiveness, SL has a non-elementarily decidable model-checking problem and the satisfiability question is undecidable, specifically Sigma_1^1. In order to obtain a decidable sublogic, we introduce and study here One-Goal Strategy Logic (SL[1G], for short). This is a syntactic fragment of SL, strictly subsuming ATL*, which encompasses formulas in prenex normal form having a single temporal goal at a time, for every strategy quantification of agents. We prove that, unlike SL, SL[1G] has the bounded tree-model property and its satisfiability problem is decidable in 2ExpTime, thus not harder than the one for ATL*.


    Volume: Volume 13, Issue 1
    Published on: March 17, 2017
    Accepted on: March 17, 2017
    Submitted on: March 17, 2017
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,F.3.1,F.4.1
    Funding:
      Source : OpenAIRE Graph
    • III: Small: Sampling Techniques in Computational Logic; Funder: National Science Foundation; Code: 1527668
    • Reasoning About Computational Economies; Funder: European Commission; Code: 291528
    • SHF: Small: Pushing the Frontier of Linear-Time Model-Checking Technology; Funder: National Science Foundation; Code: 1319459

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