--- draft: false title: "A Modal Logic of Optimality (Student Abstract) " authors: [ "James T. Oswald", "Brandon Rozek", "Thomas Macaulay Ferguson", "Selmer Bringsjord" ] date: 2025-04-11 publish_date: "2025/04/11" conference: "AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence" isbn: "" doi: "10.1609/aaai.v39i28.35286" volume: 39 firstpage: 29456 lastpage: 29458 language: "English" pdf_url: "https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/35286/37441" abstract: "We present our work on a new modal logic of optimality, OPT, whose semantics are modeled in terms of optimal paths through reward-weighted transition systems. We prove some basic properties of OPT, including its status as a normal modal logic, as well as its relation to some of the standard modal axioms. We end with a discussion of applications to AI and future research directions and extensions." ---