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Verifying Systems of Resource-Bounded Agents

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Abstract

Approaches to the verification of multi-agent systems are typically based on games or transition systems defined in terms of states and actions. However such approaches often ignore a key aspect of multi-agent systems, namely that the agents’ actions require (and sometimes produce) resources. We briefly survey previous work on the verification of multi-agent systems that takes resources into account, and outline some key challenges for future work.

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Fußnoten
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Another strand of work focusses on theorem proving, e.g., [28], but such approaches typically require user interaction to guide the search for a proof.
 
2
There is work on model-checking infinite state transition systems, see, for example, [11], but in this paper we concentrate on the finite case.
 
3
CL is a fragment of ATL with only the next time \(\langle \!\langle A \rangle \!\rangle \bigcirc \) modality.
 
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Here, (0, 1) is the allocation of 0 units of \(r_1\) and 1 unit of \(r_2\) to agent 1. We only show resource bound for the proponent agents, \(\{1 \}\) in this case. Versions of resource logic where opponents are also resource-bounded all have an undecidable model-checking problem, see [14].
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Verifying Systems of Resource-Bounded Agents
verfasst von
Natasha Alechina
Brian Logan
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40189-8_1