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Specification and automatic verification of trust-based multi-agent systems

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Specification and automatic verification of trust-based multi-agent systems

Drawel, Nagat, Qu, Hongyang, Bentahar, Jamal and Shakshuki, Elhadi (2018) Specification and automatic verification of trust-based multi-agent systems. Future Generation Computer Systems . ISSN 0167739X (In Press)

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.01.040

Abstract

We present a new logic-based framework for modeling and automatically verifying trust in Multi-Agent Systems (MASs). We start by refining TCTL, a temporal logic of trust that extends the Computation Tree Logic (CTL) to enable reasoning about trust with preconditions. A new vector-based version of interpreted systems is defined to capture the trust relationship between the interacting parties. We introduce a set of reasoning postulates along with formal proofs to support our logic. Moreover, we present new symbolic model checking algorithms to formally and automatically verify the system under consideration against some desirable properties expressed using the proposed logic. We fully implemented our proposed algorithms as a model checker tool called MCMAS-T on top of the MCMAS model checker for MASs along with its new input language VISPL (Vector-extended ISPL). We evaluated the tool and reported experimental results using a real-life scenario in the healthcare field.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Authors:Drawel, Nagat and Qu, Hongyang and Bentahar, Jamal and Shakshuki, Elhadi
Journal or Publication:Future Generation Computer Systems
Date:31 January 2018
Funders:
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):10.1016/j.future.2018.01.040
Keywords:Trust; Multi-agent systems; Temporal logic; Model checking; Reasoning postulates; MCMAS-T; VISPL
ID Code:983457
Deposited By: Danielle Dennie
Deposited On:31 Jan 2018 20:25
Last Modified:31 Jan 2019 01:00

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