Distributed Knowing How
Distributed knowledge is a key concept in the standard epistemic logic of knowledge-that.In this paper, we propose a corresponding notion of distributed knowledge-how and study its logic.Our framework generalizes two existing traditions in the logic of know-how: the individual-based multistep framework and the coalition-based single-step framework.In particular, we assume a group can accomplish more than what its individuals can jointly do.The distributed knowledge-how is based on the distributed knowledge-that of a group whose multi-step strategies derive from distributed actions that subgroups can collectively perform.As the main result, we obtain a sound and strongly complete proof system for our logic of distributed knowledge-how, which closely resembles the logic of distributed knowledge-that in both the axioms and the proof method of completeness.
Authors
- Bin Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-184X)
- Yanjing Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-416X)
Institutions
- Peking University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
- Published
- 2025-11-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4204/eptcs.437.11
- Primary Topic
- Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00