Specification And Verification Of Multi Agent Systems

Author : Mehdi Dastani,Koen V. Hindriks,John-Jules Meyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
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Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781441969842

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Specification and Verification of Multi-agent Systems by Mehdi Dastani,Koen V. Hindriks,John-Jules Meyer Pdf

Specification and Verification of Multi-agent Systems presents a coherent treatment of the area of formal specification and verification of agent-based systems with a special focus on verification of multi-agent programs. This edited volume includes contributions from international leading researchers in the area, addressing logical formalisms and techniques, such as model checking, theorem proving, and axiomatisations for (semi) automatic verification of agent-based systems. Chapters include: • Using Theorem Proving to Verify Properties of Agent Programs • The Refinement of Multi-Agent Systems • Model Checking Agent Communication • Directions for Agent Model Checking • Model Checking Logics of Strategic Ability: Complexity • Correctness of Mult-Agent Programs: A Hybrid Approach • The Norm Implementation Problem in Normative Multi-Agent Systems • A Verification Logic for GOAL Agents • Using the Maude Term Rewriting Language for Agent Development with Formal Foundations • The Cognitive Agents Specification Language and Verification Environment • A Temporal Trace Language for Formal Modelling and Analysis of Agent Systemns • Assurance of Agent Systems: What Role Should Formal Verification Play? Specification and Verification of Multi-agent Systems is a comprehensive guide that makes a useful tool for researchers, practitioners and students, and serves as a reference work summarizing the state of the art in an accessible manner.

Author : Mehdi Dastani,Koen V. Hindriks,John-Jules Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1441969853

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Specification and Verification of Multi-agent Systems by Mehdi Dastani,Koen V. Hindriks,John-Jules Meyer Pdf

Specification and Verification of Multi-agent Systems presents a coherent treatment of the area of formal specification and verification of agent-based systems with a special focus on verification of multi-agent programs. This edited volume includes contributions from international leading researchers in the area, addressing logical formalisms and techniques, such as model checking, theorem proving, and axiomatisations for (semi) automatic verification of agent-based systems. Chapters include: • Using Theorem Proving to Verify Properties of Agent Programs • The Refinement of Multi-Agent Systems • Model Checking Agent Communication • Directions for Agent Model Checking • Model Checking Logics of Strategic Ability: Complexity • Correctness of Mult-Agent Programs: A Hybrid Approach • The Norm Implementation Problem in Normative Multi-Agent Systems • A Verification Logic for GOAL Agents • Using the Maude Term Rewriting Language for Agent Development with Formal Foundations • The Cognitive Agents Specification Language and Verification Environment • A Temporal Trace Language for Formal Modelling and Analysis of Agent Systemns • Assurance of Agent Systems: What Role Should Formal Verification Play? Specification and Verification of Multi-agent Systems is a comprehensive guide that makes a useful tool for researchers, practitioners and students, and serves as a reference work summarizing the state of the art in an accessible manner.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8363159255

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Logical Methods for Specification and Verification of Multi-agent Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : T. C. Nicholas Graham,Philippe Palanque
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540705680

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Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification by T. C. Nicholas Graham,Philippe Palanque Pdf

The modern world has made available a wealth of new possibilities for interacting with computers, through advanced Web applications, while on the go with handheld smart telephones or using electronic tabletops or wall-sized displays. Developers of modern interactive systems face great problems: how to design applications which will work well with newly available technologies, and how to efficiently and correctly implement such designs. Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems 2008 was the 15th of a series of annual workshops devoted to helping designers and implementers of interactive systems unleash the power of modern interaction devices and techniques. DSV-IS 2008 was held at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, during July 16–18, 2008. This book collects the best papers submitted to the workshop. There were 17 full papers, 10 late-breaking and experience report papers, and two demonstrations. Keynote presentations were provided by Judy Brown of Carleton University and Randy Ellis of Queen’s University. The first day of the workshop addressed the problems of user interface evaluation and specification, with particular emphasis on the use of task models to provide hi- level approaches for capturing the intended functionality of a user interface. Day two continued this theme, examining techniques for modeling user interfaces, particularly for mobile and ubiquitous applications. Presenters also discussed advanced implem- tation techniques for interactive systems. Finally, day three considered how to arc- tect interactive systems, and returned to the themes of evaluation and specification.

Author : Ammar Attoui
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447104636

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Real-Time and Multi-Agent Systems by Ammar Attoui Pdf

A detailed account of real-time systems, including program structures for real-time, phases development analysis, and formal specification and verification methods of reactive systems. The book brings together the 3 key fields of current and future data-processing: distributed systems and applications, parallel scientific computing, and real-time and manufacturing systems. It covers the basic concepts and theories, methods, techniques and tools currently used in the specification and implementation of applications and contains many examples plus complete case studies.

Author : Ahmed Bouajjani,Oded Maler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642026577

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Computer Aided Verification by Ahmed Bouajjani,Oded Maler Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2009, held in Grenoble, France, in June/July 2009. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 16 tool papers and 4 invited talks and 4 invited tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 regular paper and 34 tool paper submissions. The papers are dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems; their scope ranges from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the underlying algorithms and techniques.

Author : Matteo Baldoni,Jörg P. Müller,Ingrid Nunes,Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319509839

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems by Matteo Baldoni,Jörg P. Müller,Ingrid Nunes,Rym Zalila-Wenkstern Pdf

This book constitutes revised, selected, and invited papers from the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2016, held in Singapore, in May 2016, in conjunction with AAMAS. The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The book also contains 2 invited papers; extended versions of AAMAS 2016 demonstration abstracts. EMAS deals with MAS software engineering processes, methodologies and techniques; Programming languages for MAS; Formal methods and declarative technologies for the specification, validation and verification of MAS; and development tools.

Author : Ricardo Choren,Alessandro Garcia,Carlos Lucena,Alexander Romanovsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540248439

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III by Ricardo Choren,Alessandro Garcia,Carlos Lucena,Alexander Romanovsky Pdf

This book presents a coherent and well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. The power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications. The 16 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are organized in topical sections on agent methodologies and processes, requirements engineering and software architectures, modeling languages, and dependability and coordination. Most of the papers were initially presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems, SELMAS 2004, held in Edinburgh, UK in May 2004 in association with ICSE 2004. Other papers were invited to complete coverage of all relevant aspects.

Author : Ryszard Kowalczyk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642044403

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Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems by Ryszard Kowalczyk Pdf

Computational collective intelligence (CCI) is most often understood as a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) dealing with soft computing methods that enable group decisions to be made or knowledge to be processed among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. The needs for CCI techniques and tools have grown signi- cantly recently as many information systems work in distributed environments and use distributed resources. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. Therefore, CCI is of great importance for today’s and future distributed systems. Methodological, theoretical and practical aspects of computational collective int- ligence, such as group decision making, collective action coordination, and knowledge integration, are considered as the form of intelligence that emerges from the collabo- tion and competition of many individuals (artificial and/or natural). The application of multiple computational intelligence technologies such as fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc. , can support human and other collective intelligence and create new forms of CCI in natural and/or artificial s- tems.

Author : R.H. Bordini,M. Dastani,J. Dix,A El Fallah Seghrouchni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540719564

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Programming Multi-Agent-Systems by R.H. Bordini,M. Dastani,J. Dix,A El Fallah Seghrouchni Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, May 2006. Coverage includes uncertainty of agents; lightweight devices for business and e-commerce applications; component-based agents for MAS simulation; creation, execution, mobility and communication of agents; as well as multi-agent platforms and organization.

Author : Emilia Garcia,Adriana Giret,Vicente Botti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319115726

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Regulated Open Multi-Agent Systems (ROMAS) by Emilia Garcia,Adriana Giret,Vicente Botti Pdf

Addressing the open problem of engineering normative open systems using the multi-agent paradigm, normative open systems are explained as systems in which heterogeneous and autonomous entities and institutions coexist in a complex social and legal framework that can evolve to address the different and often conflicting objectives of the many stakeholders involved. Presenting a software engineering approach which covers both the analysis and design of these kinds of systems, and which deals with the open issues in the area, ROMAS (Regulated Open Multi-Agent Systems) defines a specific multi-agent architecture, meta-model, methodology and CASE tool. This CASE tool is based on Model-Driven technology and integrates the graphical design with the formal verification of some properties of these systems by means of model checking techniques. Utilizing tables to enhance reader insights into the most important requirements for designing normative open multi-agent systems, the book also provides a detailed and easy to understand description of the ROMAS approach and the advantages of using ROMAS. This method is illustrated with case studies, in which the reader may develop a comprehensive understanding of applying ROMAS to a given problem. The case studies are presented with illustrations of the developments. Reading this book will help readers to understand the increasing demand for normative open systems and their development requirements; understand how multi-agent systems approaches can be used to deal with the development of systems of this kind; to learn an easy to use and complete engineering method for large-scale and complex normative systems and to recognize how Model-Driven technology can be used to integrate the analysis, design, verification and implementation of multi-agent systems.

Author : Matteo Baldoni,Luciano Baresi,Mehdi Dastani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319261843

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems by Matteo Baldoni,Luciano Baresi,Mehdi Dastani Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2015, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2015. The 10 full papers, presented with two invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The focus of the papers is on the topics such as: programming frameworks, languages, models and abstractions for MAS; formal methods and declarative technologies for specification, verification and engineering of MAS; MAS software engineering methodologies and techniques, and development concerns; interoperability and integration; tools and testbeds; MAS techniques; and empirical studies and (industrial) experience reports.

Author : Michal Pechoucek,Paolo Petta,Laszlo Zsolt Varga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540317319

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV by Michal Pechoucek,Paolo Petta,Laszlo Zsolt Varga Pdf

The aim of the CEEMAS conference series is to provide a biennial forum for the presentation of multi-agent research and development results. With its p- ticular geographicalorientation towards Central and Eastern Europe, CEEMAS has become an internationally recognised event with participants from all over the world. After the successful CEEMAS conferences in St. Petersburg (1999), Cracow (2001) and Prague (2003), the 2005 CEEMAS conference takes place in Budapest. The programme committee of the conference series consists of est- lished researchers from the region and renowned international colleagues, sh- ing the prominent rank of CEEMAS among the leading events in multi-agent systems. In the very competitive ?eld of agent oriented conferences and workshops nowadays(suchasAAMAS,WI/IAT,EUMAS,CIA,MATES)thespecialpro?le of CEEMAS is that it is trying to bridge the gap between applied research achievements and theoretical research activities. Our ambition is to provide a forum for presenting theoretical research with an evident application potential, implemented application prototypes and their properties, as well as industrial case studies of successful (but also unsuccessful) agent technology deployments. This is why the CEEMAS proceedings volume provides a collection of research and application papers. The technical research paper section of the proceedings (see pages 11–499) contains pure research papers as well as research results in application settings while the application papers section (see pages 500–530) contains papers focused on application aspects. The goal is to demonstrate the real life value and commercial reality of multi-agent systems as well as to foster communication between academia and industry in this ?eld.

Author : Ricardo Choren,Alessandro Garcia,Carlos Lucena,Alexander Romanovsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540318460

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III by Ricardo Choren,Alessandro Garcia,Carlos Lucena,Alexander Romanovsky Pdf

This book presents a coherent and well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. The power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications. The 16 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are organized in topical sections on agent methodologies and processes, requirements engineering and software architectures, modeling languages, and dependability and coordination. Most of the papers were initially presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems, SELMAS 2004, held in Edinburgh, UK in May 2004 in association with ICSE 2004. Other papers were invited to complete coverage of all relevant aspects.

Author : Frank van Harmelen,Vladimir Lifschitz,Bruce Porter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080557023

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Handbook of Knowledge Representation by Frank van Harmelen,Vladimir Lifschitz,Bruce Porter Pdf

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up-to-date review of twenty-five key topics in knowledge representation, written by the leaders of each field. It includes a tutorial background and cutting-edge developments, as well as applications of Knowledge Representation in a variety of AI systems. This handbook is organized into three parts. Part I deals with general methods in Knowledge Representation and reasoning and covers such topics as classical logic in Knowledge Representation; satisfiability solvers; description logics; constraint programming; conceptual graphs; nonmonotonic reasoning; model-based problem solving; and Bayesian networks. Part II focuses on classes of knowledge and specialized representations, with chapters on temporal representation and reasoning; spatial and physical reasoning; reasoning about knowledge and belief; temporal action logics; and nonmonotonic causal logic. Part III discusses Knowledge Representation in applications such as question answering; the semantic web; automated planning; cognitive robotics; multi-agent systems; and knowledge engineering. This book is an essential resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in knowledge representation and AI. * Make your computer smarter * Handle qualitative and uncertain information * Improve computational tractability to solve your problems easily