MCMAS: A Model Checker for the Verification of Multi-Agent Systems

  • Authors:
  • Alessio Lomuscio;Hongyang Qu;Franco Raimondi

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College London, UK;Imperial College London, UK;University College London, UK

  • Venue:
  • CAV '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

While temporal logic in its various forms has proven essential to reason about reactive systems, agent-based scenarios are typically specified by considering high-level agents attitudes. In particular, specification languages based on epistemic logic [7], or logics for knowledge, have proven useful in a variety of areas including robotics, security protocols, web-services, etc. For example, security specifications involving anonymity [4] are known to be naturally expressible in epistemic formalisms as they explicitly state the lack of different kinds of knowledge of the principals.