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We present Stratified Metric Temporal Logic (SMTL), a novel formalism for specifying and verifying properties of complex cyber-physical systems that exhibit behaviors across multiple temporal and abstraction scales. SMTL extends existing…

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The Hegselmann-Krause (HK) model allows one to characterize the continuous change of agents' opinions with the bounded confidence threshold $\varepsilon$. To consider the heterogeneity of agents in characteristics, we study the HK model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-05 Yueying Zhu , Jian Jiang , Wei Li

The rise of Agent AI and Large Language Model-powered Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) has underscored the need for responsible and dependable system operation. Tools like LangChain and Retrieval-Augmented Generation have expanded LLM…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Jinwei Hu , Yi Dong , Shuang Ao , Zhuoyun Li , Boxuan Wang , Lokesh Singh , Guangliang Cheng , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Xiaowei Huang

We derive a necessary and sufficient condition of linear dynamical stability for inhomogeneous Vlasov stationary states of the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. The condition is expressed by an explicit disequality that has to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alessandro Campa , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This note investigates how to design topology structures to ensure the controllability of multi-agent networks (MASs) under any selection of leaders. We put forward a concept of perfect controllability, which means that a multi-agent system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Shaobin Cao , Zhijian Ji , Hai Lin , Haisheng Yu

This paper presents a temporal expression language for monitoring AI agent behavior, enabling systematic error-detection of LLM-based agentic systems that exhibit variable outputs due to stochastic generation processes. Drawing from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Thomas J Sheffler

Explainable systems expose information about why certain observed effects are happening to the agents interacting with them. We argue that this constitutes a positive flow of information that needs to be specified, verified, and balanced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Julian Siber

The verification of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) poses a significant challenge. Various approaches and methodologies exist to address this challenge; however, tools that support them are not always readily available. Even when such tools are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Angelo Ferrando , Vadim Malvone

Logic-based representations of multi-agent systems have been extensively studied. In this work, we focus on the action language BC to formalize global views of MAS domains. Methodologically, we start representing the behaviour of each agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Orkunt Sabuncu , Torsten Schaub , Christian Schulz-Hanke

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents powered by large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable potential in automating digital tasks, highlighting the need for high-quality trajectory data to support effective agent training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Rui Shao , Ruize Gao , Bin Xie , Yixing Li , Kaiwen Zhou , Shuai Wang , Weili Guan , Gongwei Chen

We consider the automatic verification of information flow security policies of web-based workflows, such as conference submission systems like EasyChair. Our workflow description language allows for loops, non-deterministic choice, and an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christian Müller , Helmut Seidl , Eugen Zălinescu

We present two novel symbolic algorithms for model checking the Alternating-time Temporal Logic ATL*, over both the infinite-trace and the finite-trace semantics. In particular, for infinite traces we design a novel symbolic reduction to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sofia Garcia de Blas Garcia-Alcalde , Francesco Belardinelli

Complex environments, processes and systems may exhibit several distinct modes of physical behaviour or operation. Thus, for example, in their design, a set of mathematical models may be needed, each model having its own domain of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Edwin Beggs , John V. Tucker

Drug discovery frequently loses momentum when data, expertise, and tools are scattered, slowing design cycles. To shorten this loop we built a hierarchical, tool using agent framework that automates molecular optimisation. A Principal…

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Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple computation paths in a system and are commonly used to, e.g., define information-flow policies. In this paper, we study a novel class of hyperproperties that allow reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Multi-agent systems where the agents are developed by parties with competing interests, and where there is no access to an agent's internal state, are often classified as `open'. The member agents of such systems may inadvertently fail to,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-05-27 Alexander Artikis

Determining the physically accessible unitary dynamics of a quantum system under finite Hamiltonian resources is a central problem in quantum control and Hamiltonian engineering. Dynamical Lie algebras (DLAs) provide the fundamental link…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Yanying Liang , Ruibin Xu , Mao-Sheng Li , Haozhen Situ , Zhu-Jun Zheng

This paper addresses distributed average tracking of physical second-order agents with heterogeneous nonlinear dynamics, where there is no constraint on input signals. The nonlinear terms in agents' dynamics are heterogeneous, satisfying a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Sheida Ghapani , Salar Rahili , Wei Ren

We present Logical Robots, an interactive multi-agent simulation platform where autonomous robot behavior is specified declaratively in the logic programming language Logica. Robot behavior is defined by logical predicates that map…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Evgeny Skvortsov , Yilin Xia , Ojaswa Garg , Shawn Bowers , Bertram Ludäscher

Combined modeling and verification of dynamic systems and the data they operate on has gained momentum in AI and in several application domains. We investigate the expressive yet concise framework of data-aware dynamic systems (DDS),…

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