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A Framework for Epistemic Gossip Protocols

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We implement a framework to evaluate epistemic gossip protocols. Gossip protocols spread information within a network of agents by pairwise communications. This tool, Epistemic Gossip Protocol (EGP), is applied to epistemic gossip protocols presented in [1]. We introduce a programming language for epistemic gossip protocols. We describe an interpreter for this language, together with a model generator and model checker, for a dynamic model of the protocol. The tool EGP outputs key dynamic properties of such protocols, thus facilitating the process of protocol design and planning. We conclude with some experimental results.

Keywords

  • Epistemic gossip protocol
  • Epistemic gossip framework
  • Gossip tree
  • Protocol engineering

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    Note that the truth value of \({A_j}\) is irrelevant here, what is important is whether the truth value is known.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the reviewers for their comments. Hans vanDitmarsch is also affiliated to IMSc, Chennai, as research associate. He acknowledges support from ERC project EPS 313360.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Maduka Attamah, Davide Grossi & Wiebe van der Hoek

  2. LORIA—CNRS, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France

    Hans van Ditmarsch

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Attamah, M., van Ditmarsch, H., Grossi, D., van der Hoek, W. (2015). A Framework for Epistemic Gossip Protocols. In: Bulling, N. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems. EUMAS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8953. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17130-2_13

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