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Verifying conformance of multi-agent commitment-based protocols

Authors:

Mohamed El-Menshawy,

Jamal Bentahar,

Warda El Kholy,

Rachida DssouliAuthors Info & Claims

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1

Pages 122 - 138

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.030

Published: 01 January 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Although several approaches have been proposed to specify multi-agent commitment-based protocols that capture flexible and rich interactions among autonomous and heterogeneous agents, very few of them synthesize their formal specification and automatic verification in an integrated framework. In this paper, we present a new logic-based language to specify commitment-based protocols, which is derived from ACTL^*^c, a logic extending CTL^* with modalities to represent and reason about social commitments and their actions. We present a reduction technique that formally transforms the problem of model checking ACTL^*^c to the problem of model checking GCTL^* (an extension of CTL^* with action formulae). We prove that the reduction technique is sound and we fully implement it on top of the CWB-NC model checker to automatically verify the NetBill protocol, a motivated and specified example in the proposed specification language. We also apply the proposed technique to check the compliance of another protocol: the Contract Net protocol with given properties and report and discuss the obtained results. We finally develop a new symbolic algorithm to perform model checking dedicated to the proposed logic.

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