DELQ - paperback

The book approaches questioning actions using a resolution modality based on the intersection of two equivalence relations representing information & questioning & gives a general & extensible implementation for complex questioning & resolution dynamic actions. We study strategic aspects in games with questions & interactive inquiry with oracles encoding imperfect information or limited experimental procedures. We use a tripartite interpretation for questions in multi-agent contexts. We implement questioning games, compute game matrices & give an algorithm for minimizing issue-epistemic models to capture behavioral equivalence as intersimulation. We use backtrack oracle search heuristics to study Nash equilibria in the location game on a line. We characterize NE by local game properties & use querying an oracle of local properties & matching profile fragments to design efficient strategies for solving LG. We implement LG in Alloy Analyzer & check assertions of logical entailment.