Multiple-Valued Logic Modelling for Agents Controlled via Optical Networks

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors investigated the data verification approaches in the remote control of autonomous mobile robotic agents via optical fiber networks. The problems of trust servers and the estimation of trust parameters for agents have been discussed, including position verification and position-based encryption. The results and discussions are interesting and helpful for the encryption study in optical communication systems. This paper can be published in Applied Sciences, provided following issues can be addressed.

1. Some abbreviations should be clarified when they appear for the first time.
2. Specify more parameters used in the considered transmission setup.
3. Add some discussion regarding the use of different modulation formats in the considered encryption scheme.
4. In optical fiber communication networks, the chromatic dispersion and the laser phase noise will significantly affect the performance. Please supplement some discussions regarding the related effects on the considered encryption scheme.

See e.g.

Analysis of the chromatic dispersion effect on the subcarrier wave QKD system, Optics Express, 2020.

Phase noise model for continuous-variable quantum key distribution using a local local oscillator, Physical Review A, 2021.

Nonlinear coherent optical systems in the presence of equalization enhanced phase noise, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The author presents a Multiple-valued logic modelling based on agents using optical networks. For this purpose, multiple logic functions are present using discrete Allen Givone algebra for the entries and distributed ledgers used for data verification. The procedures shown are simple to apply and design for quantum and classical protocols.

However, several corrections are suggested for a better understanding, primarily focused on a clean and tidy document and validation scenarios not included in detail. The suggestion of listed as follows:

1.- The length of the introduction section has ten pages, surveying all relevant topics related to the document. However, to better understand the composition, dividing this section is suggested. An introduction states the context, summarises the liabilities and the proposal. Later, a state of art section displaying the details about the works in the literature.

2.- Something relatively uncommon is that no experiments or results are shown on the document despite its lengths (41 pages including the references). It might not be an integral proposal such as the one presented in the document; however, some results, metrics or performance experiments should be included in the paper to validate the model.

3.- Several acronyms are not explained (MAS, BC, PU, MVL) or explained much later than their first use (AGA). Please, proofread the document checking this situation.

4.- Lists style is suggested to be standardised, using points (line 69 to 76) or segments (for instance, line 111 to 115).

5.- In lines 468 and 469, please define the matrix C out of the text or function using a cleaner and recursive manner.

6.- Equation 9 has two sequential equal symbols (after pt+m and prior hm-1). Would you please provide a cleaner way to present the equations using indentation? Some other equations suffer the same problem.

7.- Please present a cleaner form for the algorithms, for instance, standardising inputs and outputs. If latex was used, please check algorithmic or algorithm packages; please see some examples for a better presentation.

8.- However, being an extensive document, using 132 references seems a little excessive. Please check their relevance, keeping the more significant ones.

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The author presents a Multiple-valued logic modelling based on agents using optical networks. For this purpose, multiple logic functions are present using discrete Allen Givone algebra for the entries and distributed ledgers used for data verification. The procedures shown are simple to apply and design for quantum and classical protocols.

However, several corrections are suggested. The suggestion of listed as follows:

1.- Please double-check the author guidelines concerning the sections of the manuscript. "We do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the required sections: Author Information, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Conclusions, Figures and Tables with Captions, Funding Information, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest and other Ethics Statements. Check the Journal Instructions for Authors for more details."

2.- Table 5, is not a table but a figure. Please check the quality of all the figures since some of them are blurry. The use of vectorial formats like tiff, eps o pdf is suggested.

3.- The length of the introduction section is still quite excesive. To abbreviate this section is suggested concerning only the topics related to the proposal.

Author Response

The author  expresses his gratitude to the reviewer for attentive reading and useful remarks.

Suggested corrections were done as follows:

1.	1.- Please double-check the author guidelines concerning the sections of the manuscript. "We do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the required sections: Author Information, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Conclusions, Figures and Tables with Captions, Funding Information, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest and other Ethics Statements. Check the Journal Instructions for Authors for more details."	The structure of sections and their titles were corrected according guidelines (as Introduction,  Methods, Results,…) to simplify the reading.
2.	2.- Table 5, is not a table but a figure. Please check the quality of all the figures since some of them are blurry. The use of vectorial formats like tiff, eps o pdf is suggested.	Table 5 was given as Figure 6. All Figires and Tables were inserted into the text in  *.tiff   format and copied in archive file. Several colour elements were inserted.
3.	3.- The length of the introduction section is still quite excesive. To abbreviate this section is suggested concerning only the topics related to the proposal.	Introduction section was cutted and the overall manuscript length was shortened to 39 pages. The minimal description of agent and MAS was left only in order to: ·        To explain the term “agent”; ·        To exclude some confusion of terms in literature referring to  hardware mobile agent and software mobile agent; ·        To mark the modern trend in AI robotics, which MVL modelling follows; ·        To make accent on the complexity of agents modelling, which strictly speaking creates more problems, then MVL one. Shortened and modified fragments were marked by Track Changes and by Yellow highlighting.