Verification of multiple agent knowledge-based systems

Verification of Multiple Agent Knowledge-Based Systems

The purpose of this paper is to extend verification tests to systems with multiple autonomous agent knowledge bases. Using a classic approach to verification, this paper focuses on tests concerned with consistency, completeness and correctness. In particular, this paper focuses on those unique issues that are generated as we go from single agent systems to multiple agent systems. This paper is ...

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Verification of Agent-Based Artifact Systems

Artifact systems are a novel paradigm for specifying and implementing business processes described in terms of interacting modules called artifacts. Artifacts consist of data and lifecycles, accounting respectively for the relational structure of the artifacts’ states and their possible evolutions over time. In this paper we put forward artifact-centric multi-agent systems, a novel formalisatio...

Specification and Verification of Knowledge - Based Systems

The paper introduces a formal approach for the specification and verification of knowledge-based systems. We identify different elements of such a specification: a task definition, a problem-solving method, a domain model, an adapter, and assumptions that relate these elements. We present abstract data types and a variant of dynamic logic as formal means to specify these different elements. Bas...

Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems

Knowledge-based systems (KBS) are being used in many applications areas where their failures can be costly because of the losses in services, property, or even life. To ensure their reliability and dependability, it is therefore important that these systems are verified and validated before they are deployed. This paper provides perspectives on issues and problems that impact the verification a...