This paper addresses the need for formal specification and runtime verification of system-level requirements of distributed reactive systems. It describes a formalism for specifyi...
Provision of services within a virtual framework for resource sharing across institutional boundaries has become an active research area. Many such services encode access to compu...
In complex strategic situations decision-making agents interact with many other agents and have access to many pieces of information throughout their play. This usually leads to g...
We sketch how to express typical features of agent communication protocols in a simple temporal logic and show that conformance verification at runtime reduces to a generalised f...
This is a case-study in knowledge representation. We analyze the ‘one hundred prisoners and a lightbulb’ puzzle. In this puzzle it is relevant what the agents (prisoners) know...