The logic of distributed protocols: preliminary report

  • Authors:
  • Richard E. Ladner;John H. Reif

  • Affiliations:
  • Univeristy of Washington, Seattle, Washington;Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Venue:
  • TARK '86 Proceedings of the 1986 conference on Theoretical aspects of reasoning about knowledge
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

A propositional logic of distributed protocols is introduced which includes both the logic of knowledge and temporal logic. Phenomena in distributed computing systems such as asynchronous time, incomplete knowledge by the computing agents in the system, and game-like behavior among the computing agents are all modeled in the logic. Two versions of the logic, the linear logic of protocols (LLP) and the tree logic of protocols (TLP) are investigated. The main result is that the set of valid formulas in LLP is undecidable.