Model-checking techniques are successfully used in the verification of both hardware and software systems of industrial relevance. Unfortunately, the capability of current techni...
Jimin Gao, Mats Per Erik Heimdahl, David Owen, Tim...
An approach to handle the complex dynamics of a multi-agent system is based on distinguishing aggregation levels by structuring the system into parts or components. The behavior of...
Temporal logic can be used as a programming language. If temporal formulae are represented in the form of an implication where the antecedent refers to the past, and the consequen...
Howard Barringer, Michael Fisher, Dov M. Gabbay, A...
Formal analysis can be used to verify that a model of the system adheres to its requirements. As such, traditional formal analysis focuses on whether known (desired) system propert...
Interaction protocols are specific, often standard, constraints on the behaviors of autonomous agents in a multiagent system. Protocols are essential to the functioning of open sys...