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Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains, gaining extensive attention from academia and industry. However, these agents raise significant concerns on AI safety due to their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Liming Dong , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for modeling and verifying multi-agent systems. The paper introduce an Epistemic Process Calculus for multi-agent systems, which formalizes the syntax and semantics to capture the essential…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Qixian Yu , Zining Cao , Zong Hui , Yuan Zhou

Multiagent AI systems require consistent communication, but we lack methods to verify that agents share the same understanding of the terms used. Natural language is interpretable but vulnerable to semantic drift, while learned protocols…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Philipp Schoenegger , Matt Carlson , Chris Schneider , Chris Daly

There are two kinds of higher-order extensions of model checking: HORS model checking and HFL model checking. Whilst the former has been applied to automated verification of higher-order functional programs, applications of the latter have…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Naoki Kobayashi , Takeshi Tsukada , Keiichi Watanabe

As autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) proliferate in high-stakes domains -- from pharmaceuticals to legal workflows -- the challenge is no longer just intelligence, but verifiability. We introduce TrustTrack, a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Muyang Li

Agent technology is a software paradigm that permits to implement large and complex distributed applications. In order to assist analyzing, conception and development or implementation phases of multi-agent systems, we've tried to present a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Sara Maalal , Malika Addou

As reinforcement learning continues to scale the training of large language model-based agents, reliably verifying agent behaviors in complex environments has become increasingly challenging. Existing approaches rely on rule-based verifiers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wentao Shi , Yu Wang , Yuyang Zhao , Yuxin Chen , Fuli Feng , Xueyuan Hao , Xi Su , Qi Gu , Hui Su , Xunliang Cai , Xiangnan He

There are many established semantic Web standards for implementing multi-agent driven applications. The AJAN framework allows to engineer multi-agent systems based on these standards. In particular, agent knowledge is represented in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hacane Hechehouche , Andre Antakli , Matthias Klusch

In open multi-agent agent systems that cross organisational boundaries, agent actions must be regulated by complex policies. Consider medical data processing systems, which must observe generic laws (e.g., EU data protection regulations)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Christopher A. Esterhuyse , Tim Müller , L. Thomas van Binsbergen

We propose a verified approach to the formal verification of timed properties using model-checking techniques. We focus on properties expressed using real-time specification patterns, which can be viewed as a subset of timed temporal logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Nouha Abid , Silvano Dal Zilio , Didier Le Botlan

The multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem seeks collision-free paths for a team of agents from their current positions to their pre-set goals in a known environment, and is an essential problem found at the core of many logistics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chengyang He , Tianze Yang , Tanishq Duhan , Yutong Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture is a popular framework for rational agents; most verification approaches are based on reasoning about implementations of BDI programming languages. We investigate an alternative approach based…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Blair Archibald , Muffy Calder , Michele Sevegnani , Mengwei Xu

Verification of AI is a challenge that has engineering, algorithmic and programming language components. For example, AI planners are deployed to model actions of autonomous agents. They comprise a number of searching algorithms that, given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Alasdair Hill , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Ronald P. A. Petrick

A new approach to software design based on an agent-oriented architecture is presented. Unlike current research, we consider software to be designed and implemented with this methodology in mind. In this approach agents are considered…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Babak Hodjat , Christopher J. Savoie , Makoto Amamiya

We propose a model checking algorithm to test properties of systems that are expressed in the multi-agent temporal logic ATL+. The specificities of this algorithm are: it is on-the-fly, generating states only when they are needed, and it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Serenella Cerrito

Enterprise AI deployment faces critical "Know Your Agent" (KYA) challenges where organizations must verify third-party agent capabilities and establish trust without standardized metadata or verification infrastructure. Current approaches…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jared James Grogan

As REST APIs become an increasingly significant part of software systems, their validation is becoming more critical. Hence, testing and uncovering underlying issues are of utmost importance for improving software quality. However, testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shehroz Khan , Abdullah Mughees , Gaadha Sudheerbabu , Tanwir Ahmad , Dragos Truscan

Recently, using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate optimization models from natural language descriptions has became increasingly popular. However, a major open question is how to validate that the generated models are correct and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alexander Zadorojniy , Segev Wasserkrug , Eitan Farchi

Language agents have shown strong promise for task automation. Realizing this promise for increasingly complex, long-horizon tasks has driven the rise of a sub-agent-as-tools paradigm for multi-turn task solving. However, existing designs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jianhao Ruan , Zhihao Xu , Yiran Peng , Fashen Ren , Zhaoyang Yu , Xinbing Liang , Jinyu Xiang , Yongru Chen , Bang Liu , Chenglin Wu , Yuyu Luo , Jiayi Zhang

Formal verification of multi-agent systems is hard, both theoretically and in practice. In particular, studies that use a single verification technique typically show limited efficiency, and allow to verify only toy examples. Here, we…