Handbook of theoretical computer science (vol. B)
A first-order branching time logic of multi-agent systems
ECAI '92 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Artificial intelligence
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The imperative future: principles of executable temporal logic
The imperative future: principles of executable temporal logic
A Deduction Model of Belief
A Survey of Concurrent METATEM - the Language and its Applications
ICTL '94 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Temporal Logic
A Decision Procedure for a Temporal Belief Logic
ICTL '94 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Temporal Logic
From the Past to the Future: Executing Temporal Logic Programs
LPAR '92 Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning
Concurrent METATEM - A Language for Modelling Reactive Systems
PARLE '93 Proceedings of the 5th International PARLE Conference on Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe
A Normal Form for First-Order Temporal Formulae
CADE-11 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automated Deduction: Automated Deduction
A Resolution-Based Proof Method for Temporal Logics of Knowledge and Belief
FAPR '96 Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal and Applied Practical Reasoning
The Declarative Past and Imperative Future: Executable Temporal Logic for Interactive Systems
Temporal Logic in Specification
A message system supporting fault tolerance
SOSP '83 Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
PMMP '95 Proceedings of the conference on Programming Models for Massively Parallel Computers
A resolution method for temporal logic
IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Clausal resolution in a logic of rational agency
Artificial Intelligence
Formalisms for multi-agent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
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This paper considers how formal methods might be developed for use in agent-based systems. In particular, it presents an approach based upon the description of agents using temporal specifications. Not only can these specifications be executed directly to provide the behaviour of an individual agent, but collections of such descriptions can be executed under a specific operational model in order to give the behaviour of multi-agent systems. In addition to animating their behaviour, verification of the agent descriptions with respect to required logical properties can be carried out; the paper outlines how temporal belief logics can be used to achieve this. Finally, the current limitations of this work are considered and its extension towards the ultimate goal of a full formal development framework for agent-based systems is discussed.