International Workshop on
Logical Aspects in Multi-Agent Systems and Strategic Reasoning
Satellite Workshop of AAMAS 2021
NEWS Recordings of the talks are now available here .
Logics and strategic reasoning play a central role in multi-agent systems. Logics can be used, for instance, to express the agents' abilities, knowledge, and objectives. Strategic reasoning refers to algorithmic methods that allow for developing good behavior for the agents of the system. At the intersection, we find logics that can express existence of strategies or equilibria, and can be used to reason about them. The LAMAS&SR workshop merges two international workshops: LAMAS (Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems), which focuses on all kinds of logical aspects of multi-agent systems from the perspectives of artificial intelligence, computer science, and game theory, and SR (Strategic Reasoning), devoted to all aspects of strategic reasoning in formal methods and artificial intelligence.
LAMAS: The LAMAS workshop provides a meeting forum for the research community working on various logical aspects of multi-agent systems (MAS) from the perspectives of artificial intelligence, computer science, and game theory. It addresses the whole range of issues that arise in the context of using logic in MAS, from theoretical foundations to algorithmic methods and implemented tools. The workshop LAMAS has been regularly organized since 2002 and became the main annual event of the LAMAS research network.
SR: Strategic reasoning is a key topic in the multi-agent systems research area. The extensive literature in this field includes a number of logics used for reasoning about the strategic abilities of the agents in the system, but spans also game theory, decision theory or epistemic logics to name a few. The aim is to provide sound theoretical foundations and tools to tackle a variety of strategic problems in formal methods and artificial intelligence involving agents in adversarial settings. The workshop SR has been organized every year since 2013, often in co-location with the most important conferences in formal methods and artificial intelligence.
LAMAS&SR: Over the years the communities and research themes of both workshops got closer and closer, with a significant overlap in the participants and organizers of both events. For this reason, the next editions of LAMAS and SR will be unified under the same flag, formally joining the two communities.
Call for papers
LAMAS&SR is interested in all topics related to logics and strategic reasoning in multi-agent systems, from theoretical foundations to algorithmic methods and implemented tools. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Logical systems for specification, analysis, and reasoning about multi-agent systems
- Logic-based modeling of multi-agent systems
- Dynamical multi-agent systems
- Deductive systems and decision procedures for logics for multi-agent systems
- Development and implementation of methods for formal verification in multi-agent systems
- Logic-based tools for multi-agent systems
- Logics for reasoning about strategic abilities
- Logics for multi-agent mechanism design, verification, and synthesis
- Logical foundations of decision theory for multi-agent systems
- Strategic reasoning in formal verification
- Automata theory for strategy synthesis
- Applications and tools for cooperative and adversarial reasoning
- Robust planning and optimization in multi-agent systems
- Risk and uncertainty in multi-agent systems
- Quantitative aspects in strategic reasoning
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of 2 pages plus 1 page for references in the AAMAS format (files here). Both published and unpublished works are welcome. Submissions are subject to a single-blind review process (submissions should not be anonymous).
There will be no formal proceedings, but accepted extended abstracts will be made available on the workshop's website. We envisage that extensions of selected papers will be invited to a journal.
Authors are invited to submit their manuscript via EasyChair.
Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lamassr21#
Important dates
- Paper submission:
10 February, 2021 (AoE)14 February, 2021 (AoE) - Author Notification: 10 March, 2021
- Camera Ready: 24 March, 2021
- Workshop: 3-4 May, 2021
Invited Speakers
On Good-for-games automata of all sorts
Nondeterminism probably makes your favourite automata model more expressive, or at least more succinct, than determinism. However, the cost of nondeterminism is higher algorithmic complexity. Good-for-games automata, also known as history deterministic automata, are nondeterministic automata in which nondeterministic choices can be resolved on the fly, without knowledge of the future of a word. They lie in between deterministic and nondeterministic models, and combine some of the expressivity and succinctness of nondeterminism with some of the nice algorithmic properties of deterministic automata. In particular, games with winning conditions given by good-for-games automata tend to be simpler to solve than games with nondeterministic winning conditions.
In this talk, I will give an overview of good-for-games automata, survey recent developments in the area for different classes of automata (regular, pushdown, and perhaps even timed) and point to some of the hard questions that remain unanswered and some areas that remain unexplored.
Epistemic reasoning explained with the tool Hintikka's World
In this talk, we will present Dynamic Epistemic Logic which provides a framework to model epistemic situations their evolution in time. The framework is sufficiently expressive to capture public actions (e.g. broadcast of a message) but also private and semi-private actions (e.g. private messages). The framework will be explained via a software, called Hintikka’s world. We will discuss about symbolic models, which allows to represent situations with a high number of possible worlds. We then address model checking and the satisfiability problem that are standard decision problems for verifying multi-agent systems. We address epistemic planning which is undecidable in general. We will pinpoint restrictions over actions (e.g. only public actions, etc.) for which epistemic planning is decidable.
Program
All of the times mentioned on this page refer to the local time in London (British Summer Time, GMT+1).May 3
| 14:15 | Welcome |
| 14:30 | Invited talk: Karoliina Lehtinen (chair: Giuseppe Perelli) |
| On Good-for-games automata of all sorts | |
| 15:30 | Break |
| First session of contributed talks (chair: Suguman Bansal) | |
| 15:45 | Stephane Le Roux, Érik Martin-Dorel and Jan-Georg Smaus |
| Existence of Nash Equilibria in 2-Player Simultaneous Games and Priority Games Proven in Isabelle | |
| 16:05 | Thomas Steeples, Julian Gutierrez and Michael Wooldridge |
| Mean-Payoff Games with Omega-Regular Specifications | |
| 16:25 | Senthil Rajasekaran and Moshe Vardi |
| Nash Equilibria in Finite-Horizon Multiagent Concurrent Games | |
| 16:45 | Dylan Bellier, Sophie Pinchinat and François Schwarzentruber |
| DQPTL: Dependency Quantified Propositional Linear-time Temporal Logic | |
| 17:05 | Break |
| Second session of contributed talks (chair: Valentin Goranko) | |
| 17:20 | Xuefeng Wen |
| Democracy + Logic: Towards a General Approach to Conflict Resolution | |
| 17:40 | Esteban Guerrero, Ailiana Santosa and Helena Lindgren |
| Causal interventions with formal argumentation theory | |
| 18:00 | Francesco Belardinelli, Catalin Dima, Vadim Malvone and Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea |
| A Hennessy-Milner Theorem for ATL with Imperfect Information | |
| 18:20 | Wojtek Jamroga |
| Towards Specification of Requirements for COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies |
May 4
| 14:30 | Invited talk: François Schwarzentruber (chair: Bastien Maubert) |
| Epistemic reasoning explained with the tool Hintikka's World | |
| 15:30 | Break |
| Third session of contributed talks (chair: Wojtek Jamroga) | |
| 15:45 | Gaia Belardinelli and Rasmus K. Rendsvig. |
| Awareness Logic: A Kripke-based Rendition of the Heifetz-Meier-Schipper Model and a Dynamic Extension | |
| 16:05 | Saúl Fernández González |
| Some Dynamic Extensions of Social Epistemic Logic | |
| 16:25 | Munyque Mittelmann, Andreas Herzig and Laurent Perrussel |
| Epistemic Reasoning about Rationality and Bids in Auctions | |
| 16:45 | Asta Halkjær From, Alexander Birch Jensen and Jørgen Villadsen |
| Formalized Soundness and Completeness of Epistemic Logic | |
| 17:05 | Break |
| Fourth session of contributed talks (chair: Sophia Knight) | |
| 17:20 | Dilian Gurov, Valentin Goranko and Edvin Lundberg |
| Knowledge-Based Strategies for Multi-Agent Teams Playing Against Nature | |
| 17:40 | Rustam Galimullin |
| How Groups Can Help Coalitions | |
| 18:00 | David Toluhi and Renate Schmidt |
| Knowledge Extraction for Multi-Agent System Communication | |
| 18:20 | Discussion |
Committees
Chairs
- Bastien Maubert, University of Naples "Federico II"
- Giuseppe Perelli, Sapienza University of Rome
Programme Committee
- Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
- Natasha Alechina, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Suguman Bansal, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Patricia Bouyer, CNRS & LSV, France
- Rayna Dimitrova, CISPA, Germany
- Nathanaël Fijalkow, CNRS & LaBRI, France
- Tim French, University of Western Australia, Australia
- Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Davide Grossi, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Paul Harrenstein, Oxford University, UK
- Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg and Polish Academy of Sciences
- Sophia Knight, Duluth University, USA
- Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel
- Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Vadim Malvone, Telecom Paris, France
- Sophie Pinchinat, Université de Rennes, France
- Ramanujam R, IMSc Chennai, India
- Sasha Rubin, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Abdallah Saffidine, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Venue
LAMAS&SR 2021 is co-located with AAMAS 2021 and thus follows the main conference plan to move on virtual attendance.Previous editions
- LAMAS 2002, October 29-30, 2002 Dunedin, New Zealand
- LAMAS 2007, 15-16 February, 2007, Otago, New Zealand
- LAMAS 2010, 11 May, 2010, Toronto, Canada
- LAMAS 2011, 10-12 November, 2011, Osuna, Spain
- LAMAS 2012, 4-8 June, 2012, Valencia, Spain.
- LAMAS 2013, December 12-13, 2013, Toulouse, France
- LAMAS 2014
- LAMAS 2015, May 4, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
- LAMAS 2017, 25 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
- LAMAS 2020, 8-10 May 2020, Online
- SR 2013, March 16-17, 2013, Rome, Italy
- SR 2014, April 5-6, 2014, Grenoble, France
- SR 2015, September 21-22, 2015, Oxford, U.K.
- SR 2016, July 10, 2016, New York, U.S.A.
- SR 2017, July 26-27, 2017, Liverpool, U.K.
- SR 2018, July 7-8, 2018, Oxford, U.K.
- SR 2019, August 10, 2019, Macao, China
- SR 2020, September 7-8, 2020, Online