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Automatic Data-Abstraction in Model Checking Multi-Agent Systems

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Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence (MoChArt 2010)

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We present an automatic data-abstraction technique for the verification of the universal fragment of the temporal-epistemic logic CTLK. We show the correctness of the methodology and present an implementation operating on ISPL models, the input files for MCMAS, a model checker for multi-agent systems. The experimental results point to the attractiveness of the technique in a number of examples in the multi-agent systems domain.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Alessio Lomuscio & Francesco Russo

  2. Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

    Hongyang Qu

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, Australia

    Ron van der Meyden

  2. Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79110, Freiburg, Germany

    Jan-Georg Smaus

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Lomuscio, A., Qu, H., Russo, F. (2011). Automatic Data-Abstraction in Model Checking Multi-Agent Systems. In: van der Meyden, R., Smaus, JG. (eds) Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence. MoChArt 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6572. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20674-0_4

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