Fully symbolic unbounded model checking for alternating-time temporal logic

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-89

  Kacprzak, Magdalena ^a   Penczek, Wojciech ^b,c  

^a BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

^c SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alternating time Temporal Logic; Multi agent systems; SAT based verification; Symbolic model checking; Unbounded model checking

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING-TIME TEMPORAL LOGIC; SAT-BASED VERFICATION; SYMBOLIC MODEL CHECKING; UNBOUNDED MODEL CHECKING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 21144451159     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-005-0944-9     Document Type: Article

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