Lily Chang
Xudong He
ABSTRACT
In our previous work, we developed a nested Petri net framework for modeling multi-agent systems. In this paper, we present a method to analyze the nested Petri net model using model checking. Our method systematically translates a nested Petri net model into a PROMELA program in SPIN.
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Index Terms
- A model transformation approach for verifying multi-agent systems using SPIN
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