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We present a novel approach for claim verification from tabular data documents. Recent LLM-based approaches either employ complex pretraining/fine-tuning or decompose verification into subtasks, often lacking comprehensive explanations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rudra Ranajee Saha , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Raymond T. Ng

Test and evaluation is a necessary process for ensuring that engineered systems perform as intended under a variety of conditions, both expected and unexpected. In this work, we consider the unique challenges of developing a unifying test…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Erin Lanus , Ivan Hernandez , Adam Dachowicz , Laura Freeman , Melanie Grande , Andrew Lang , Jitesh H. Panchal , Anthony Patrick , Scott Welch

This paper presents a Runtime Verification (RV) approach for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) using the JaCaMo framework. Our objective is to bring a layer of security to the MAS. This layer is capable of controlling events during the execution of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Debora C. Engelmann , Angelo Ferrando , Alison R. Panisson , Davide Ancona , Rafael H. Bordini , Viviana Mascardi

Multi-agent systems (MASs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for automated code generation, demonstrating impressive performance on established benchmarks. Despite their prosperous development, the fundamental mechanisms underlying their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zongyi Lyu , Songqiang Chen , Zhenlan Ji , Liwen Wang , Shuai Wang , Daoyuan Wu , Wenxuan Wang , Shing-Chi Cheung

We apply a compositional formal modeling and verification method to an autonomous aircraft taxi system. We provide insights into the modeling approach and we identify several research areas where further development is needed. Specifically,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Alessandro Pinto , Anthony Corso , Edward Schmerling

The compositional approach is important for reasoning about large and complex systems. In this work, we address synchronous systems with hierarchical structures, which are often used to model cyber-physical systems. We revisit the theory of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Daisuke Ishii

In this thesis a comprehensive verification framework is proposed to contend with some important issues in composability verification and a verification process is suggested to verify composability of different kinds of systems models, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Imran Mahmood

UCLID5 is a tool for the multi-modal formal modeling, verification, and synthesis of systems. It enables one to tackle verification problems for heterogeneous systems such as combinations of hardware and software, or those that have…

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

A key problem in verification of multi-agent systems by model checking concerns the fact that the state-space of the system grows exponentially with the number of agents present. This makes practical model checking unfeasible whenever the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Panagiotis Kouvaros , Alessio Lomuscio

One of the most challenging tasks in software specifications engineering for a multi-agent system is to ensure correctness. As these systems have high concurrency, often have dynamic environments, the formal specification and verification…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Nadeem Akhtar

We present Verified Multi-Agent Orchestration (VMAO), a framework that coordinates specialized LLM-based agents through a verification-driven iterative loop. Given a complex query, our system decomposes it into a directed acyclic graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xing Zhang , Yanwei Cui , Guanghui Wang , Wei Qiu , Ziyuan Li , Fangwei Han , Yajing Huang , Hengzhi Qiu , Bing Zhu , Peiyang He

Hybrid systems with both discrete and continuous dynamics are an important model for real-world cyber-physical systems. The key challenge is to ensure their correct functioning w.r.t. safety requirements. Promising techniques to ensure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Stefan Mitsch , Grant Olney Passmore , Andre Platzer

This paper presents the Soda language for verifying multi-agent systems. Soda is a high-level functional and object-oriented language that supports the compilation of its code not only to Scala, a strongly statically typed high-level…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julian Alfredo Mendez , Timotheus Kampik

Computational science relies on scientific software as its primary instrument for scientific discovery. Therefore, similar to the use of other types of scientific instruments, correct software and the correct operation of the software is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Akash Dhruv , Rajeev Jain , Jared O'Neal , Klaus Weide , Anshu Dubey

Software engineering of modular robotic systems is a challenging task, however, verifying that the developed components all behave as they should individually and as a whole presents its own unique set of challenges. In particular, distinct…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Rafael C. Cardoso , Louise A. Dennis , Marie Farrell , Michael Fisher , Matt Luckcuck

Agent Based Models are very popular in a number of different areas. For example, they have been used in a range of domains ranging from modeling of tumor growth, immune systems, molecules to models of social networks, crowds and computer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Muaz A. Niazi , Amir Hussain , Mario Kolberg

As large language models demonstrate enormous potential in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), generative AI-assisted chip design is attracting widespread attention from academia and industry. Although these technologies have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wenbo Liu , Forbes Hou , Jon Zhang , Hong Liu , Allen Lei

Simulation-based verification is beneficial for assessing otherwise dangerous or costly on-road testing of autonomous vehicles (AV). This paper addresses the challenge of efficiently generating effective tests for simulation-based AV…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Greg Chance , Abanoub Ghobrial , Severin Lemaignan , Tony Pipe , Kerstin Eder

Evaluating large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems remains a critical challenge, as these systems must exhibit reliable coordination, transparent decision-making, and verifiable performance across evolving tasks. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 YenTing Lee , Keerthi Koneru , Zahra Moslemi , Sheethal Kumar , Ramesh Radhakrishnan