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Verification and validation of vehicles is a complex yet critical process, particularly for ensuring safety and coverage through simulations. However, achieving realistic and useful simulations comes with significant challenges. To explore…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel , Mazen Mohamad

Modular verification is a technique used to face the state explosion problem often encountered in the verification of properties of complex systems such as concurrent interactive systems. The modular approach is based on the observation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Peter Drábik , Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini , Paolo Milazzo

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are increasingly used in healthcare to support complex decision-making through collaboration among specialized agents. Because these systems act as collective decision-makers, they raise challenges for trust,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Hélène Fournier , Piper Jackson , Makoto Itoh , Shannon Freeman , Rene Richard , Hung Cao

Purpose: The introduction of artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI/ML) products to the regulated fields of pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) and drug manufacture, and medical devices (MD) and in-vitro diagnostics (IVD),…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-21 David Higgins , Christian Johner

Component-based design paradigm is of paramount importance due to prolific growth in the complexity of modern-day systems. Since the components are developed primarily by multi-party vendors and often assembled to realize the overall…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Aritra Hazra

Simulating high-fidelity patients offers a powerful avenue for studying complex diseases while addressing the challenges of fragmented, biased, and privacy-restricted real-world data. In this study, we introduce SynthAgent, a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Arman Aghaee , Sepehr Asgarian , Jouhyun Jeon

We present a framework for verifying Memoryful Neural Multi-Agent Systems (MN-MAS) against full Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications. In MN-MAS, agents interact with a non-deterministic, partially observable environment. Examples of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mehran Hosseini , Alessio Lomuscio , Nicola Paoletti

Software testing has progressed toward intelligent automation, yet current AI-based test generators still suffer from static, single-shot outputs that frequently produce invalid, redundant, or non-executable tests due to the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Saba Naqvi , Mohammad Baqar , Nawaz Ali Mohammad

In deductive verification and software model checking, dealing with certain specification language constructs can be problematic when the back-end solver is not sufficiently powerful or lacks the required theories. One way to deal with this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jesper Amilon , Zafer Esen , Dilian Gurov , Christian Lidström , Philipp Rümmer

Autonomous systems require the management of several model views to assure properties such as safety and security among others. A crucial issue in autonomous systems design assurance is the notion of emergent behavior; we cannot use their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Georgios Bakirtzis , Ufuk Topcu

Utilizing third party software components in the development of new systems became somewhat unfavourable approach among many organizations nowadays. This reluctance is primarily built due to the lack of support to verify the quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Basem Y. Alkazemi

Artifact systems are a novel paradigm for specifying and implementing business processes described in terms of interacting modules called artifacts. Artifacts consist of data and lifecycles, accounting respectively for the relational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Francesco Belardinelli , Alessio Lomuscio , Fabio Patrizi

Machine learned models often must abide by certain requirements (e.g., fairness or legal). This has spurred interested in developing approaches that can provably verify whether a model satisfies certain properties. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Laurens Devos , Wannes Meert , Jesse Davis

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

This paper presents a defense framework for enhancing the safety of large language model (LLM) empowered multi-agent systems (MAS) in safety-critical domains such as aerospace. We apply randomized smoothing, a statistical robustness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jinwei Hu , Yi Dong , Zhengtao Ding , Xiaowei Huang

Multi-agent collaboration systems (MACS), powered by large language models (LLMs), solve complex problems efficiently by leveraging each agent's specialization and communication between agents. However, the inherent exchange of information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jian Cui , Zichuan Li , Luyi Xing , Xiaojing Liao

We present MAESTRO, an evaluation suite for the testing, reliability, and observability of LLM-based MAS. MAESTRO standardizes MAS configuration and execution through a unified interface, supports integrating both native and third-party MAS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Tie Ma , Yixi Chen , Vaastav Anand , Alessandro Cornacchia , Amândio R. Faustino , Guanheng Liu , Shan Zhang , Hongbin Luo , Suhaib A. Fahmy , Zafar A. Qazi , Marco Canini

Formal verification offers a path to provably correct software, but writing verified code remains expensive enough that the technique is rarely used in production. Recent large language models can accelerate this work, and recent benchmarks…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leo Yao

Automatic security protocol analysis is currently feasible only for small protocols. Since larger protocols quite often are composed of many small protocols, compositional analysis is an attractive, but non-trivial approach. We have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Suzana Andova , Cas Cremers , Kristian Gjosteen , Sjouke Mauw , Stig F. Mjolsnes , Sasa Radomirovic

Critical and cyber-physical systems (CPS) that exist in large industries, such as nuclear power plants, railway, automotive or aeronautical industries are complex heterogeneous systems. They are complex because they are open,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Abdelkader Khouass , Christian Attiogbé , Mohamed Messabihi