Paper ID: 2305.07035

Shhh! The Logic of Clandestine Operations

Pavel Naumov, Oliver Orejola

An operation is called covert if it conceals the identity of the actor; it is called clandestine if the very fact that the operation is conducted is concealed. The paper proposes a formal semantics of clandestine operations and introduces a sound and complete logical system that describes the interplay between the distributed knowledge modality and a modality capturing coalition power to conduct clandestine operations.

Submitted: May 10, 2023