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Revisiting Satisfiability and Model-Checking for CTLK with Synchrony and Perfect Recall

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We show that CTL with knowledge modalities but without common knowledge has an undecidable satisfiability problem in the synchronous perfect recall semantics. We also present an adaptation of the classical model-checking algorithm for CTL that handles knowledge operators.

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Dima, C. (2009). Revisiting Satisfiability and Model-Checking for CTLK with Synchrony and Perfect Recall. In: Fisher, M., Sadri, F., Thielscher, M. (eds) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. CLIMA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02734-5_8

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