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SUMMARY:AUC Logic Guest Lectures, Sonja Smets (ILL
 C)
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Sonja Smets (ILLC)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150511T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20150511T000000
LOCATION:AUC common room, Science Park 113, Amster
 dam
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  In this presentation I focu
 s on the 'epistemic potential' of a group of agent
 s, i.e. the knowledge (or beliefs) that the group 
 may come to possess if all its members join their 
 forces and share their individual information. Amo
 ng the different notions of group knowledge studie
 d in the literature, which one can give us a good 
 measure of a group'sepistemic potential? Hence, wh
 en exactly is the group's ability to track the tru
 th higher than that of each of its members? I will
  answer these questions by paying attention to a n
 umber of different factors that may play a role, i
 ncluding: the group's dynamics, the structure of t
 he social network, the individuals' different epis
 temic interests and agendas, etc. When we take the
 se realistic conditions into account, an accurate 
 formalization of a group's potential knowledge can
  be developed. I will illustrate the setting with 
 examples from interrogative scenarios in which we 
 allow inter-agent communication as the group's mai
 n knowledge-aggregation method.The results reporte
 d on in this lecture are based on on-going joint w
 ork with A. Baltag and R. Boddy.  For more informa
 tion, see http://www.auc.nl/news-events/events-and
 -lectures/upcoming-events-and-lectures/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n        <p>Abstract
 :<br/>\n        In this presentation I focus on th
 e 'epistemic potential' of a group of agents, i.e.
  the knowledge (or beliefs) that the group may com
 e to possess if all its members join their forces 
 and share their individual information. Among the 
 different notions of group knowledge studied in th
 e literature, which one can give us a good measure
  of a group'sepistemic potential?  Hence, when exa
 ctly is the group's ability to track the truth hig
 her than that of each of its members? I will answe
 r these questions by paying attention to a number 
 of different factors that may play a role, includi
 ng: the group's dynamics, the structure of the soc
 ial network, the individuals' different epistemic 
 interests and agendas, etc.  When we take these re
 alistic conditions into account, an accurate forma
 lization of a group's potential knowledge can be d
 eveloped. I will illustrate the setting with examp
 les from interrogative scenarios in which we allow
  inter-agent communication as the group's main kno
 wledge-aggregation method.The results reported on 
 in this lecture are based on on-going joint work w
 ith A. Baltag and R. Boddy.</p>\n    \n        <p>
 For more information, see <a target="_blank" href=
 "http://www.auc.nl/news-events/events-and-lectures
 /upcoming-events-and-lectures/upcoming-events-and-
 lectures.html">http://www.auc.nl/news-events/event
 s-and-lectures/upcoming-events-and-lectures/</a></
 p>\n    
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