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Multi-person unawareness

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Aviad Heifetz,

Martin Meier,

Burkhard C. SchipperAuthors Info & Claims

TARK '03: Proceedings of the 9th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge

Pages 145 - 158

https://doi.org/10.1145/846241.846262

Published: 20 June 2003 Publication History

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Standard state-space models, which are widely used in economics, preclude non-trivial forms of unawareness as shown by Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini (1998). We define a generalized state-space model that allows for unawareness. In order to facilitate applications we make no explicit use of modal syntax within the sematic model. Our model satisfies all "S4" properties as well as all desiderata on unawareness proposed by Modica and Rustichini (1999), Halpern (2001) as well as Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini (1998).

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Halpern JPucella RSamet D(2007)Dealing with logical omniscienceProceedings of the 11th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge10.1145/1324249.1324273(169-176)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1324249.1324273
Halpern JRêgo L(2005)Interactive unawareness revisitedProceedings of the 10th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge10.5555/1089933.1089945(78-91)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1089933.1089945

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TARK '03: Proceedings of the 9th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge

June 2003

245 pages

ISBN:1581137311

DOI:10.1145/846241

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Joe Halpern
Comell University, Ithaca, NY
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Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Halpern JPucella RSamet D(2007)Dealing with logical omniscienceProceedings of the 11th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge10.1145/1324249.1324273(169-176)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1324249.1324273
Halpern JRêgo L(2005)Interactive unawareness revisitedProceedings of the 10th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge10.5555/1089933.1089945(78-91)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1089933.1089945

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