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Verification of Multi-Agent Systems via Predicate Abstraction against ATLK Specifications

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Alessio Lomuscio,

Jakub MichliszynAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems

Pages 662 - 670

Published: 09 May 2016 Publication History

Abstract

We present a predicate abstraction technique for the verification of multi-agent systems against specifications defined in the epistemic logic ATLK, interpreted on a three-valued semantics. We reduce an infinite-state multi-agent program to a finite model by generating predicates automatically via SMT calls. We show that if an ATLK specification is either true or false in the abstract model, then that is also the case on the original infinite state model. We introduce and describe MCMAS _PA, a toolkit implementing the technique here described. MCMAS _PA supports the three-valued semantics for ATLK, automatically generates program abstractions for a multi-agent system by means of automatic SMT calls, encodes the corresponding program in BDDs and reports the result. The experimental results obtained confirm that MCMAS _PA can verify infinite-state multi-agent systems of interest.

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AAMAS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems

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Kong JLomuscio AAndre EKoenig SDastani MSukthankar G(2018)Model Checking Multi-Agent Systems against LDLK Specifications on Finite TracesProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems10.5555/3237383.3237414(166-174)Online publication date: 9-Jul-2018
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