On the complexity of rational verification

DOI10.1007/S10472-022-09804-3arXiv2207.02637MaRDI QIDQ6133701FDOQ6133701

M. J. Wooldridge, Giuseppe Perelli, Muhammad Najib, Julian Gutiérrez

Publication date: 21 August 2023

Published in: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Rational verification refers to the problem of checking which temporal logic properties hold of a concurrent multiagent system, under the assumption that agents in the system choose strategies that form a game-theoretic equilibrium. Rational verification can be understood as a counterpart to model checking for multiagent systems, but while classical model checking can be done in polynomial time for some temporal logic specification languages such as CTL, and polynomial space with LTL specifications, rational verification is much harder: the key decision problems for rational verification are 2EXPTIME-complete with LTL specifications, even when using explicit-state system representations. Against this background, our contributions in this paper are threefold. First, we show that the complexity of rational verification can be greatly reduced by restricting specifications to GR(1), a fragment of LTL that can represent a broad and practically useful class of response properties of reactive systems. In particular, we show that for a number of relevant settings, rational verification can be done in polynomial space and even in polynomial time. Second, we provide improved complexity results for rational verification when considering players' goals given by mean-payoff utility functions; arguably the most widely used approach for quantitative objectives in concurrent and multiagent systems. Finally, we consider the problem of computing outcomes that satisfy social welfare constraints. To this end, we consider both utilitarian and egalitarian social welfare and show that computing such outcomes is either PSPACE-complete or NP-complete.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02637

zbMATH Keywords

game theorymulti-agent systemstemporal logicrational verification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Artificial intelligence (68Txx)

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