MCMAS: an open-source model checker for the verification of multi-agent systems
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Author(s)
Lomuscio, AR
Qu, H
Raimondi, F
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We present MCMAS, a model checker for the verification of multi-agent systems. MCMAS supports efficient symbolic techniques for the verification of multi-agent systems against specifications representing temporal, epistemic and strategic properties. We present the underlying semantics of the specification language supported and the algorithms implemented in MCMAS, including its fairness and counterexample generation features. We provide a detailed description of the implementation. We illustrate its use by discussing a number of examples and evaluate its performance by comparing it against other model checkers for multi-agent systems on a common case study.
Date Issued
2017-02
Date Acceptance
2015-04-01
Citation
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 2017
ISSN
1433-2779
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Journal / Book Title
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
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© The Author(s) 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made
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Published
Date Publish Online
2015-04-26