Runtime Self-Checking via Temporal (Meta-)Axioms for Assurance of Logical Agent Systems

This paper deals with assurance of logical agent systems via runtime self-monitoring and checking. We adopt temporal-logic-based special constraints to be dynamically checked at a certain (customizable) frequency. These constraints are based upon a simple interval temporal logic particularly tailored to the agent realm, A-ILTL (‘Agent-Oriented Interval LTL’, LTL standing as customary for ‘Linear Temporal Logic’).

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