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        <article-title>Verifying Strategic Abilities of Neural-symbolic Multi-agent Systems</article-title>
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          <string-name>M. Akintunde</string-name>
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          <string-name>E. Botoeva</string-name>
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          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
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          <string-name>P. Kouvaros</string-name>
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          <string-name>A. Lomuscio</string-name>
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          <string-name>King's College London</string-name>
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          <institution>Imperial College London</institution>
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          <country country="UK">UK</country>
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          <institution>The work was partly funded by DARPA under the Assured Autonomy programme (FA8750-18-C- 0095), the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems (EP/L016796/1) and the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies</institution>
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          <institution>University of Kent</institution>
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          <country country="UK">UK</country>
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        <year>2023</year>
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        <p>We investigate the problem of verifying the strategic properties of multi-agent systems equipped with machine learning-based perception units. We introduce a novel model of agents comprising both a perception system implemented via feed-forward neural networks and an action selection mechanism implemented via traditional control logic. We define the verification problem for these systems against a bounded fragment of alternating-time temporal logic. We translate the verification problem on bounded traces into the feasibility problem of mixed integer linear programs and show the soundness and completeness of the translation. We show that the lower bound of the verification problem is PSPACE and the upper bound is coNEXPTIME. We present a tool implementing the compilation and evaluate the experimental results obtained on a complex scenario of multiple aircraft operating a recently proposed prototype for air-trafic collision avoidance.</p>
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        <kwd>eol&gt;Neuro-symbolic agents</kwd>
        <kwd>Verification</kwd>
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