Partial order reductions for model checking temporal epistemic logics over interleaved multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Alessio Lomuscio;Wojciech Penczek;Hongyang Qu

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College London, UK;ICS PAS and Univ. of Podlasie, Poland;Oxford University, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We investigate partial order reduction for model checking multiagent systems by focusing on interleaved interpreted systems. These are a particular class of interpreted systems, a mainstream MAS formalism, in which only one action at the time is performed. We present a notion of stuttering-equivalence, and prove the semantical equivalence of stuttering-equivalent traces with respect to linear and branching time temporal logics for knowledge without the next operator. We give algorithms to reduce the size of the models before the model checking step and show preservation properties. We evaluate the technique by discussing the experimental results obtained against well-known examples in the MAS literature.