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Distributed Knowing How

Published: November 27, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.22374v1

By: Bin Liu, Yanjing Wang

Potential Business Impact:

Teaches groups how to do more than individuals.

Business Areas:
Knowledge Management Administrative Services

Distributed knowledge is a key concept in the standard epistemic logic of knowledge-that. In this paper, we propose a corresponding notion of distributed knowledge-how and study its logic. Our framework generalizes two existing traditions in the logic of know-how: the individual-based multi-step framework and the coalition-based single-step framework. In particular, we assume a group can accomplish more than what its individuals can jointly do. The distributed knowledge-how is based on the distributed knowledge-that of a group whose multi-step strategies derive from distributed actions that subgroups can collectively perform. As the main result, we obtain a sound and strongly complete proof system for our logic of distributed knowledge-how, which closely resembles the logic of distributed knowledge-that in both the axioms and the proof method of completeness.

Country of Origin
🇨🇳 China

Page Count
18 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Logic in Computer Science