Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci., JAIST, Nomi, Japan
Abstract :
Although the logic of belief update has mainly concerned a belief state of one agent thus far, the real world settings require us to implement simultaneous belief changes. Here, however, we need to manage so many indices: agent names, time stamps, and the difference of information. In this paper, we introduce the notation of vectors and matrices for the simultaneous informing action. By this, we show that a matrix can represent a public announcement and/or a consecutive message passing, with the time of the change of belief states properly. A collective belief state multiplied by a communication matrix, including matrices of accessibility in Kripke semantics, becomes a hypercuboid.
Keywords :
belief networks; matrix algebra; message passing; multi-agent systems; Kripke semantics; agent names; collective belief revision; consecutive message passing; hypercuboid; linear algebra; matrices; public announcement; time stamps; vectors; Bismuth; Educational institutions; Semantics; Symmetric matrices; Tensile stress; Vectors;