Title :
Formal methods for checking realizability of coalitions in 3-party systems
Author :
Banerjee, Ansuman ; Dasgupta, Pallab ; Chakrabarti, P.P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur
Abstract :
The main contributions of this paper are as follows: We revisit the concept of multiplayer coalition games in the context of a 3-party system. We analyze the coalition realizability problem for different degrees of observability of the module and the controller. We show that the realizability problem can be expressed as an instance of quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), by using appropriate quantifications on the variables of the environment, the module and the controller. We then use recent QBF solvers to verify
Keywords :
Boolean functions; formal specification; formal verification; observability; realisation theory; coalition realizability problem; formal methods; multiplayer coalition games; observability; quantified Boolean formula; realizability checking; three-party systems; Application software; Computer science; Control systems; Electronic design automation and methodology; Instruments; Medical control systems; Microprocessors; Observability; Power engineering and energy; Switching circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Formal Methods and Models for Co-Design, 2006. MEMOCODE '06. Proceedings. Fourth ACM and IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0421-5
DOI :
10.1109/MEMCOD.2006.1695927