Do agents make model checking explode (computationally)?

  • Authors:
  • Wojciech Jamroga;Jürgen Dix

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany;Institute of Computer Science, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Atl is a logic for multi-agent systems that enjoys model checking linear in the size of the models. Here, we point out that the size of an atl model is usually exponential in the number of agents. We establish the precise atl model checking complexity when the number of agents is considered a parameter: it turns out that the problem is Σ2P-complete for concurrent game structures, and NP-complete for alternating transition systems. We also show that atl model checking over the broader class of nondeterministic alternating transition systems is still NP-complete, which suggests that using the more general class of models may be convenient in practice.