Formal Verification of Multi-agent System Based on JADE: A Semi-runtime Approach

Roungroongsom, Chittra; Pradubsuwun, Denduang

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19024-2_30

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“…Our shields are based on the notion of runtime monitors. This is not the first time RV is applied to MAS [2,19,28,22,30]. However, they usually target agent interaction protocols where the runtime monitors are used to verify the message exchange amongst the agents.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Failure Handling in BDI Plans via Runtime Enforcement

Ferrando,

Cardoso

2023

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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Engineering a software system can be a complex process and prone to failure. This is exacerbated when the system under consideration presents some degree of autonomy, such as in cognitive agents. In this paper, we use runtime verification as a way to enforce safety properties on Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents by enveloping certain plans in safety shields. These shields function as a failure handling mechanism, they can detect and avoid violations in shielded plans. The safety shields also provide automated failure recovery by attempting alternative execution paths to avoid violations.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Failure Handling in BDI Plans via Runtime Enforcement

Ferrando,

Cardoso

2023

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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“…From this perspective, RV4JaCa is an evolution of these approaches in two ways: (i) it allows general-purpose verification since no constraint is assumed on the monitor side, except for being capable of receiving and sending JSON messages; (ii) to be self-contained, RV4JaCa natively supports RML monitors, and because of that it allows a more intuitive and high-level protocol specification. In [8,32], other approaches to runtime verification of agent interactions are proposed, and in [26] a framework for dynamic adaptive MAS (DAMS-RV) based on an adaptive feedback loop is presented. Other approaches to MAS RV include the spin-off proposals from the SOCS project where the SCIFF computational logic framework [3] is used to provide the semantics of social integrity constraints.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

RV4JaCa – Runtime Verification for Multi-Agent Systems

Engelmann

Ferrando²,

Panisson

et al. 2022

Electron. Proc. Theor. Comput. Sci.

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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 the system without needing a specific implementation in the behaviour of each agent to recognise the events. MAS have been used in the context of hybrid intelligence. This use requires communication between software agents and human beings. In some cases, communication takes place via natural language dialogues. However, this kind of communication brings us to a concern related to controlling the flow of dialogue so that agents can prevent any change in the topic of discussion that could impair their reasoning. We demonstrate the implementation of a monitor that aims to control this dialogue flow in a MAS that communicates with the user through natural language to aid decision-making in hospital bed allocation.

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“…Specifically, the global specification, which is used to represent the global protocol, is translated into partial decentralised specifications-one for each agent of the MAS. In [36,37], other works on runtime verification of agent interactions are proposed for the JADE platform. Specifically, in [36], the authors propose a framework called Multi-agent Runtime Verification (MARV).…”

Section: Runtime Verificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The translation to a more formal representation is seen as a future work and not supported yet. Considering interactions in JADE, in [37], we may find a different approach which is partially obtained at runtime. In fact, the proposed method is performed in a semi-runtime way, where logs of messaging events are kept, and an algorithm for converting these logs to Time Petri Net as runtime program models is used.…”

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Agents and Robots for Reliable Engineered Autonomy:A Perspective from the Organisers of AREA 2020

Cardoso

Ferrando

Briola

et al. 2021

JSAN

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Multi-agent systems, robotics and software engineering are large and active research areas with many applications in academia and industry. The First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA), organised the first time in 2020, aims at encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations and exchange of ideas among researchers working in these research areas. This paper presents a perspective of the organisers that aims at highlighting the latest research trends, future directions, challenges, and open problems. It also includes feedback from the discussions held during the AREA workshop. The goal of this perspective is to provide a high-level view of current research trends for researchers that aim at working in the intersection of these research areas.

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Formal Verification of Multi-agent System Based on JADE: A Semi-runtime Approach

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Failure Handling in BDI Plans via Runtime Enforcement

Failure Handling in BDI Plans via Runtime Enforcement

RV4JaCa – Runtime Verification for Multi-Agent Systems

Agents and Robots for Reliable Engineered Autonomy:A Perspective from the Organisers of AREA 2020

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