The virtues of idleness: a decidable fragment of resource agent logic

Alechina, Natasha, Bulling, Nils, Logan, Brian and Nguyen, Hoang Nga (2017) The virtues of idleness: a decidable fragment of resource agent logic. Artificial Intelligence . ISSN 0004-3702

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Abstract

Alternating Time Temporal Logic (ATL) is widely used for the verification of multi-agent systems. We consider Resource Agent Logic (RAL), which extends ATL to allow the verification of properties of systems where agents act under resource constraints. The model checking problem for RAL with unbounded production and consumption of resources is known to be undecidable. We review existing (un)decidability results for fragments of RAL, tighten some existing undecidability results, and identify several aspects which affect decidability of model checking. One of these aspects is the availability of a ‘do nothing’, or idle action, which does not produce or consume resources. Analysis of undecidability results allows us to identify a significant new fragment of RAL for which model checking is decidable.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/841884
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2016.12.005
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 13 Jan 2017 13:14
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 18:31
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/39849

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