Parameterized Complexity Results for a Model of Theory of Mind Based on Dynamic Epistemic Logic

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Publication date 24-06-2016
Journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Event 15th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK)
Volume | Issue number 215
Pages (from-to) 246-263
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
In this paper we introduce a computational-level model of theory of mind (ToM) based on dynamic epistemic logic (DEL), and we analyze its computational complexity. The model is a special case of DEL model checking. We provide a parameterized complexity analysis, considering several aspects of DEL (e.g., number of agents, size of preconditions, etc.) as parameters. We show that model checking for DEL is PSPACE-hard, also when restricted to single-pointed models and S5 relations, thereby solving an open problem in the literature. Our approach is aimed at formalizing current intractability claims in the cognitive science literature regarding computational models of ToM.
Document type Article
Note In: Proceedings Fifteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge : Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, June 4-6, 2015. Edited by R. Ramanujam.
Language English
Related publication Parameterized complexity of theory of mind reasoning in dynamic epistemic logic
Published at https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.215.18
Other links http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/content.cgi?TARK2015
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