TY - CHAP
T1 - Known Unknowns
T2 - Time Bounds and Knowledge of Ignorance
AU - Ben-Zvi, Ido
AU - Moses, Yoram
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper studies the role that known bounds on message transmission times in a computer network play on the evolution of the epistemic state over time. A connection to cones of causal influence analogous to, and more general than, light cones is presented. Focusing on lower bounds on message transmission times, an analysis is presented of how knowledge about when others are guaranteed to be ignorant about an event of interest (“knowing that they don’t know”) can arise. This has implications in competitive settings, in which knowing about another’s ignorance can provide an advantage.
AB - This paper studies the role that known bounds on message transmission times in a computer network play on the evolution of the epistemic state over time. A connection to cones of causal influence analogous to, and more general than, light cones is presented. Focusing on lower bounds on message transmission times, an analysis is presented of how knowledge about when others are guaranteed to be ignorant about an event of interest (“knowing that they don’t know”) can arise. This has implications in competitive settings, in which knowing about another’s ignorance can provide an advantage.
KW - Clock synchronization
KW - Epistemic logic
KW - Knowledge and communication
KW - Knowledge in distributed systems
KW - Knowledge of ignorance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067940866&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-62864-6_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-62864-6_7
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AN - SCOPUS:85067940866
T3 - Outstanding Contributions to Logic
SP - 187
EP - 206
BT - Outstanding Contributions to Logic
ER -