2017/07/27 by Ron van der Meyden
Computer Science · #cs.LO
paper · pdf · doi:10.4204/eptcs.251.29
published as EPTCS 251, 2017, pp. 398-414 · In Proceedings TARK 2017, arXiv:1707.08250
arxiv created 2017/07/27 · arxiv updated 2017/07/28
This paper shows that conditional independence reasoning can be applied to optimize epistemic model checking, in which one verifies that a model for a number of agents operating with imperfect information satisfies a formula expressed in a modal multi-agent logic of knowledge. The optimization has been implemented in the epistemic model checker MCK. The paper reports experimental results demonstrating that it can yield multiple orders of magnitude performance improvements.