Verifying Real-Time Properties of Multi-agent Systems via SMT-Based Bounded Model Checking

We present a satisfiability modulo theories based bounded model checking (SMT-based BMC) method for timed interpreted systems (\(\mathrm{\mathbb {TIS}}\)) and for properties expressible in the existential fragment of a Real-Time Computation Tree Logic with epistemic components (RTECTLK). We implemented the standard BMC algorithm and evaluated it for two multi-agent systems: a timed train controller system and a timed generic pipeline paradigm. We used the Z3 solver.

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