Giving Instructions in Linear Temporal Logic

Julian Gutierrez, Sarit Kraus, Giuseppe Perelli, Michael Wooldridge

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Abstract

Our aim is to develop a formal semantics for giving instructions to taskable agents, to investigate the complexity of decision problems relating to these semantics, and to explore the issues that these semantics raise. In the setting we consider, agents are given instructions in the form of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulae; the intuitive interpretation of such an instruction is that the agent should act in such a way as to ensure the formula is satisfied. At the same time, agents are assumed to have inviolable and immutable background safety requirements, also specified as LTL formulae. Finally, the actions performed by an agent are assumed to have costs, and agents must act within a limited budget. For this setting, we present a range of interpretations of an instruction to achieve an LTL task Υ, intuitively ranging from “try to do this but only if you can do so with everything else remaining unchanged” up to “drop everything and get this done.” For each case we present a formal pre-/post-condition semantics, and investigate the computational issues that they raise.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication29th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2022
EditorsAlexander Artikis, Roberto Posenato, Stefano Tonetta
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN (Electronic)9783959772624
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2022
Event29th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 7 Nov 20229 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume247
ISSN (Print)1868-8969

Conference

Conference29th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/11/229/11/22

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Julian Gutierrez, Sarit Kraus, Giuseppe Perelli, and Michael Wooldridge.

Funding

Funding Giuseppe Perelli: Giuseppe Perelli is partially supported by the ERC Advanced Grant WhiteMech (No. 834228), by the EU ICT-48 2020 project TAILOR (No. 952215), and by the Sapienza University project “BeGood” (No. AR22117A2DC7CD60). Michael Wooldridge: Michael Wooldridge was supported by the UKRI under grant (grant EP/ W002949/1).

FundersFunder number
EU ICT-48 2020952215
UK Research and InnovationEP/ W002949/1
European Commission834228
Sapienza Università di RomaAR22117A2DC7CD60

    Keywords

    • Game theory
    • Linear Temporal Logic
    • Multi-Agent Systems
    • Synthesis

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