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Stochastic multi-agent systems raise the necessity to extend probabilistic model checking to the epistemic domain. Results in this direction have been achieved by epistemic extensions of Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic and related Probabilistic Interpreted Systems. The latter, however, suffer of an important limitation: they require the probabilities governing the system’s behaviour to be fully specified. A promising way to overcome this limitation is represented by imprecise probabilities. In this paper we introduce imprecise probabilistic interpreted systems and present a related logical language and model-checking procedures based on recent advances in the study of imprecise Markov processes.
G. Primiero—Supported by the project “Departments of Excellence 2018–2022”, Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).
A. Facchini—Supported by the Hasler foundation grant n. 20061.
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i.e., computed through the global transition matrix \(\mathcal {T}_\mathsf{IPIS}\).
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Termine, A., Antonucci, A., Primiero, G., Facchini, A. (2021). Logic and Model Checking by Imprecise Probabilistic Interpreted Systems. In: Rosenfeld, A., Talmon, N. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems. EUMAS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12802. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82254-5_13
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