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Frameworks for Reasoning about Agent Based System

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Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems (AGENTS 2000)

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This paper suggests formal frameworks that can be used as the basis for defining, reasoning about, and verifying properties of agent systems. The language, Little-JIL is graphical, yet has precise mathematically defined semantics. It incorporates a wide range of semantics needed to define the subtleties of agent system behaviors. We demonstrate that the semantics of Little-JIL are sufficiently well defined to support the application of static dataflow analysis, enabling the verification of critical properties of the agent systems. This approach is inherently a top-down approach that complements bottom-up approaches to reasoning about system behavior.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    Leon J. Osterweil & Lori A. Clarke

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 228 Neville Hall, Orono, ME, 04469-5752, USA

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  2. Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Queen’s Building, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3XF, Wales, UK

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Osterweil, L.J., Clarke, L.A. (2001). Frameworks for Reasoning about Agent Based System. In: Wagner, T., Rana, O.F. (eds) Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. AGENTS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1887. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47772-1_7

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