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TACAS '95 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems
Beyond HYTECH: Hybrid Systems Analysis Using Interval Numerical Methods
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RTSS '95 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
A constraint-based approach for specification and verification of real-time systems
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A CLP Proof Method for Timed Automata
RTSS '04 Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium
Constraint Logic Programming using Eclipse
Constraint Logic Programming using Eclipse
Framework for multi-agent planning based on hybrid automata
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Hybrid multiagent systems with timed synchronization: specification and model checking
ProMAS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
HieroMate: a graphical tool for specification and verification of hierarchical hybrid automata
KI'09 Proceedings of the 32nd annual German conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Towards timed automata and multi-agent systems
FAABS'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems
PHAVer: algorithmic verification of hybrid systems past hytech
HSCC'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Hybrid Systems: computation and control
HieroMate: a graphical tool for specification and verification of hierarchical hybrid automata
KI'09 Proceedings of the 32nd annual German conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
MAS: qualitative and quantitative reasoning
ProMAS'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
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Hybrid automata are used as standard means for the specification and analysis of dynamical systems. Many researches have approached them to formally specify reactive Multi-agent systems situated in a physical environment, where the agents react continuously to their environment. The specified systems, in turn, are formally checked with the help of existing hybrid automata verification tools. However, when dealing with multi-agent systems, two problems may be raised. The first problem is a state space problem raised due to the composition process, where the agents have to be parallel composed into an agent capturing all possible behaviors of the multi-agent system prior to the verification phase. The second problem concerns the expressiveness of verification tools when modeling and verifying certain behaviors. Therefore, this paper tackles these problems by showing how multi-agent systems, specified as hybrid automata, can be modeled and verified using constraint logic programming(CLP). In particular, a CLP framework is presented to show how the composition of multi-agent behaviors can be captured dynamically during the verification phase. This can relieve the state space complexity that may occur as a result of the composition process. Additionally, the expressiveness of the CLP model flexibly allows not only to model multi-agent systems, but also to check various properties by means of the reachability analysis. Experiments are promising to show the feasibility of our approach.