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Model Checking for Probabilistic Multiagent Systems
Journal of Computer Science and Technology 2023, 38 (5): 1162-1186
Published: 30 September 2023

In multiagent systems, agents usually do not have complete information of the whole system, which makes the analysis of such systems hard. The incompleteness of information is normally modelled by means of accessibility relations, and the schedulers consistent with such relations are called uniform. In this paper, we consider probabilistic multiagent systems with accessibility relations and focus on the model checking problem with respect to the probabilistic epistemic temporal logic, which can specify both temporal and epistemic properties. However, the problem is undecidable in general. We show that it becomes decidable when restricted to memoryless uniform schedulers. Then, we present two algorithms for this case: one reduces the model checking problem into a mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problem, which can then be solved by Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, and the other is an approximate algorithm based on the upper confidence bounds applied to trees (UCT) algorithm, which can return a result whenever queried. These algorithms have been implemented in an existing model checker and then validated on experiments. The experimental results show the efficiency and extendability of these algorithms, and the algorithm based on UCT outperforms the one based on MINLP in most cases.

Open Access Issue
An Axiom System of Probabilistic Mu-Calculus
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2022, 27 (2): 372-385
Published: 29 September 2021
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Mu-calculus (a.k.a. μTL) is built up from modal/dynamic logic via adding the least fixpoint operator μ. This type of logic has attracted increasing attention since Kozen’s seminal work. P μTL is a succinct probabilistic extension of the standard μTL obtained by making the modal operators probabilistic. Properties of this logic, such as expressiveness and satisfiability decision, have been studied elsewhere. We consider another important problem: the axiomatization of that logic. By extending the approaches of Kozen and Walukiewicz, we present an axiom system for P μTL. In addition, we show that the axiom system is complete for aconjunctive formulas.

Editorial Issue
Preface
Journal of Computer Science and Technology 2020, 35 (6): 1231-1233
Published: 30 November 2020
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