Utility-based Decision-making in Distributed Systems Modelling

نویسندگان

  • Gabrielle Anderson
  • Matthew Collinson
  • David J. Pym
چکیده

We consider a calculus of resources and processes as a basis for modelling decision-making in multi-agent systems. The calculus represents the regulation of agents’ choices using utility functions that take account of context. Associated with the calculus is a (Hennessy–Milner-style) contextsensitive modal logic of state. As an application, we show how a notion of ‘trust domain’ can be defined for multi-agent systems.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1310.6405  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013