Agents and Roles: Refinement in Alternating-Time Temporal Logic

  • Authors:
  • Mark Ryan;Pierre-Yves Schobbens

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a notion of refinement between agent-oriented systems defined using alternating-time temporal logic (ATL). The refinement relation provides a framework for defining roles in a society of interacting agents, and formalising a relation of conformance between agents and roles. The refinement relation also allows us to construct abstractions in order to make verification more tractable.