A logical framework for democratic decision-making: epistemic logic and liquid democracy

Simone Cuconato

Abstract


Since Hintikka’s epistemic logic, the logic of knowledge, has been a subject of research in philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence and game theory. This paper presents a framework of dynamic epistemic logic capable of investigating interactive voting decisions in liquid democracy.


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epistemic logic, applied logic to social and economic sciences, liquid democracy, multiagent systems, game theory.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23756/sp.v8i2.558

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