Ontology-Based Reasoning in Requirements Elicitation

This paper addresses the issue of guaranteeing the correctness of fault diagnosis mechanisms in multi-agent systems. We propose an automated approach to verifying the property of diagnosability by combining fault injection with model checking. In particular we show how to reason about individual agent´s and system wide knowledge of faults, which is essential for the agents to cooperate and coordinate to recover from them. The multi-agent system model checker MCMAS is used for verification and epistemic specifications are defined to specify that a system accurately diagnoses faults.