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Strategic Knowledge Acquisition

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The article proposes a trimodal logical system that can express the strategic ability of coalitions to learn from their experience. The main technical result is the completeness of the proposed system.

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              cover image ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
              ACM Transactions on Computational Logic  Volume 22, Issue 3
              July 2021
              186 pages
              ISSN:1529-3785
              EISSN:1557-945X
              DOI:10.1145/3470626
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              • Published: 28 June 2021
              • Accepted: 1 April 2021
              • Revised: 1 January 2021
              • Received: 1 April 2020
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