Verifying systems of resource-bounded agents

Approaches to the verification of multi-agent systems are typically based on games or transition systems defined in terms of states and actions. However such approaches often ignore a key aspect of multi-agent systems, namely that the agents’ actions require (and sometimes produce) resources. We bri...

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Main Authors: Alechina, Natasha, Logan, Brian
Format: Article
Published: Springer Verlag 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34430/
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Summary:Approaches to the verification of multi-agent systems are typically based on games or transition systems defined in terms of states and actions. However such approaches often ignore a key aspect of multi-agent systems, namely that the agents’ actions require (and sometimes produce) resources. We briefly survey previous work on the verification of multi-agent systems that takes resources into account, and outline some key challenges for future work.