When a new component is added to an existing, distributed system, it has to co-operate with existing components in a way that doesn’t interfere badly with the original system. A...
Abstract. This paper introduces a compositional Hoare logics for reasoning about the correctness of systems composed of a dynamically evolving collection of processes (also called ...
Formal theories of multi-agent systems require a rich ontology for modelling the dynamics of social behaviour. In this paper a formal analysis of the social behaviour of individua...
Abstract. Emergent behaviour (EB) is a common phenomenon in multi-agent systems (MAS) where autonomous agents perform certain actions with only limited access to local information ...
Verification of multi-agent programs is a key problem in agent research and development. This paper focuses on multi-agent programs that consist of a finite set of BDI-based agent...