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As multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) systems are increasingly deployed throughout society, it is imperative yet challenging for users to understand the emergent behaviors of MARL agents in complex environments. This work presents an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Kayla Boggess , Sarit Kraus , Lu Feng

Autonomous agents acting in realistic Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) should be able to adapt during their execution. Standard strategic logics, such as Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), model agents' state- or history-dependent behaviour.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rustam Galimullin , Hermine Grosinger , Munyque Mittelmann

Many modern autonomous systems, particularly multi-agent systems, are time-critical and need to be robust against timing uncertainties. Previous works have studied left and right time robustness of signal temporal logic specifications by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Alëna Rodionova , Lars Lindemann , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Alternating-time temporal logic (ATL) and its extensions, including the alternating-time $\mu$-calculus (AMC), serve the specification of the strategic abilities of coalitions of agents in concurrent game structures. The key ingredient of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Merlin Humml , Lutz Schröder , Dirk Pattinson

Hyperproperties are commonly used in computer security to define information-flow policies and other requirements that reason about the relationship between multiple computations. In this paper, we study a novel class of hyperproperties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

In logics for the strategic reasoning the main challenge is represented by their verification in contexts of imperfect information and perfect recall. In this work, we show a technique to approximate the verification of Alternating-time…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Angelo Ferrando , Vadim Malvone

In the last two decades, Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL) has been proved to be very useful in modeling strategic reasoning for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). However, this logic struggles to capture the bounded rationality inherent in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Marco Aruta , Vadim Malvone , Aniello Murano

This article is about temporal multi-agent logics. Several of these formalisms have been already presented (ATL-ATL*, ATLsc, SL). They enable to express the capacities of agents in a system to ensure the satisfaction of temporal properties.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Christophe Chareton , Julien Brunel , David Chemouil

This paper proposes a new logic RoCTL* to model robustness in concurrent systems. RoCTL* extends CTL* with the addition of Obligatory and Robustly operators, which quantify over failure-free paths and paths with one more failure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-18 John C. McCabe-Dansted , Tim French , Mark Reynolds , Sophie Pinchinat

Various extensions of the temporal logic ATL have recently been introduced to express rich properties of multi-agent systems. Among these, ATLsc extends ATL with strategy contexts, while Strategy Logic has first-order quantification over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-18 François Laroussinie , Nicolas Markey

Runtime assurance (RTA) addresses the problem of keeping an autonomous system safe while using an untrusted (or experimental) controller. This can be done via logic that explicitly switches between the untrusted controller and a safety…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Kristina Miller , Christopher K. Zeitler , William Shen , Mahesh Viswanathan , Sayan Mitra

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is the standard specification language for reactive systems and is successfully applied in industrial settings. However, many shortcomings of LTL have been identified in the literature, among them the limited…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Daniel Neider , Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann

We consider the setting of stochastic multiagent systems modelled as stochastic multiplayer games and formulate an automated verification framework for quantifying and reasoning about agents' trust. To capture human trust, we work with a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Xiaowei Huang , Marta Kwiatkowska , Maciej Olejnik

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is the standard specification language for reactive systems and is successfully applied in industrial settings. However, many shortcomings of LTL have been identified in the literature, among them the limited…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Daniel Neider , Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann

Model checking strategic abilities was successfully developed and applied since the early 2000s to ensure properties in Multi-Agent System. In this paper, we introduce the notion of capacities giving different abilities to an agent. This…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Gabriel Ballot , Vadim Malvone , Jean Leneutre , Youssef Laarouchi

Synthesis of models and strategies is a very important problem in software engineering. The main element here is checking the satisfiability of formulae expressing the specification of a system to be implemented. This paper puts forward a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Magdalena Kacprzak , Artur Niewiadomski , Wojciech Penczek

This paper presents a secure-by-construction planning and control framework for multi-agent systems subject to linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. The framework protects sensitive information from a passive intruder with partial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Georgios Mitsos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Siyuan Liu

We show that Branching-time temporal logics CTL and CTL*, as well as Alternating-time temporal logics ATL and ATL*, are as semantically expressive in the language with a single propositional variable as they are in the full language, i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mikhail Rybakov , Dmitry Shkatov

We define extensions of CTL and TCTL with strategic operators, called Strategic CTL (SCTL) and Strategic TCTL (STCTL), respectively. For each of the above logics we give a synchronous and asynchronous semantics, i.e., STCTL is interpreted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jaime Arias , Wojciech Jamroga , Wojciech Penczek , Laure Petrucci , Teofil Sidoruk

We propose the Robustness Temporal Logic (RobTL), a novel temporal logic for the specification and analysis of distances between the behaviours of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) over a finite time horizon. Differently from classical temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Valentina Castiglioni , Michele Loreti , Simone Tini