EPMC Gets Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems



Fu, Chen, Hahn, Ernst-Moritz, Li, Yong ORCID: 0000-0002-7301-9234, Schewe, Sven ORCID: 0000-0002-9093-9518, Sun, Meng, Turrini, Andreas and Zhang, Lijun
(2022) EPMC Gets Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems In: International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation.

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Abstract

In this paper, we present EPMC, an extendible probabilistic model checker. EPMC has a small kernel, and is designed modularly. It supports discrete probabilistic models such as Markov chains and Markov decision processes. Like PRISM, it supports properties specified in PCTL*. Two central advantages of EPMC are its modularity and extendibility. We demonstrate these features by extending EPMC to EPMC-petl, a model checker for probabilistic epistemic properties on multi-agent systems. EPMC-petl takes advantage of EPMC to provide two model checking algorithms for multi-agent systems with respect to probabilistic epistemic logic: an exact algorithm based on SMT techniques and an approximated one based on UCT. Multi-agent systems and epistemic properties are given in an extension of the modelling language of PRISM, making it easy to model this kind of scenarios.

Item Type: Conference Item (Unspecified)
Uncontrolled Keywords: 4605 Data Management and Data Science, 46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4602 Artificial Intelligence
Divisions: Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2021 08:47
Last Modified: 01 Mar 2026 04:30
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94583-1_5
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3143384
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