scholarly journals An Efficient Normalisation Procedure for Linear Temporal Logic and Very Weak Alternating Automata

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salomon Sickert ◽  
Javier Esparza
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Linear Temporal Logic ◽  
Alternating Automata

Almost linear Büchi automata

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMÁŠ BABIAK ◽  
VOJTĚCH ŘEHÁK ◽  
JAN STREJČEK
Keyword(s):  
Model Checking ◽  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Linear Temporal Logic ◽  
Practical Relevance ◽  
New Class ◽  
Büchi Automata ◽  
Buchi Automata ◽  
Alternating Automata

We introduce a new fragment of linear temporal logic (LTL) called LIO and a new class of Büchi automata (BA) called almost linear Büchi automata (ALBA). We provide effective translations between LIO and ALBA showing that the two formalisms are expressively equivalent. As we expect there to be applications of our results in model checking, we use two standard sources of specification formulae, namely Spec Patterns and BEEM, to study the practical relevance of the LIO fragment, and to compare our translation of LIO to ALBA with two standard translations of LTL to BA using alternating automata. Finally, we demonstrate that the LIO to ALBA translation can be much faster than the standard translation, and the resulting automata can be substantially smaller.

scholarly journals Divergent stutter bisimulation abstraction for controller synthesis with linear temporal logic specifications

Automatica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 109723
Author(s):  
Sahar Mohajerani ◽  
Robi Malik ◽  
Andrew Wintenberg ◽  
Stéphane Lafortune ◽  
Necmiye Ozay
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Linear Temporal Logic ◽  
Controller Synthesis

scholarly journals A Unified Translation of Linear Temporal Logic to ω-Automata

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-61
Author(s):  
Javier Esparza ◽  
Jan Křetínský ◽  
Salomon Sickert
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Linear Temporal Logic

Extending Linear Temporal Logic with Clocks to Object-Z

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 927-930
Author(s):  
Zhi Cheng Wen ◽  
Zhi Gang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Formal Specification ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Linear Temporal Logic ◽  
Specification Language ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Real Time System ◽  
Software Specification ◽  
Formal Specification Language

Object-Z, an extension to formal specification language Z, is good for describing large scale Object-Oriented software specification. While Object-Z has found application in a number of areas, its utility is limited by its inability to specify continuous variables and real-time constraints. Linear temporal logic can describe real-time system, but it can not deal with time variables well and also can not describe formal specification modularly. This paper extends linear temporal logic with clocks (LTLC) and presents an approach to adding linear temporal logic with clocks to Object-Z. Extended Object-Z with LTLC, a modular formal specification language, is a minimum extension of the syntax and semantics of Object-Z. The main advantage of this extension lies in that it is convenient to describe and verify the complex real-time software specification.

scholarly journals The temporal logic of coalgebras via Galois algebras

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 875-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
BART JACOBS
Keyword(s):  
State Space ◽  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Linear Temporal Logic ◽  
The State ◽  
Temporal Logics ◽  
Computation Tree Logic ◽  
Computation Tree ◽  
Polynomial Functors

This paper introduces a temporal logic for coalgebras. Nexttime and lasttime operators are defined for a coalgebra, acting on predicates on the state space. They give rise to what is called a Galois algebra. Galois algebras form models of temporal logics like Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and Computation Tree Logic (CTL). The mapping from coalgebras to Galois algebras turns out to be functorial, yielding indexed categorical structures. This construction gives many examples, for coalgebras of polynomial functors on sets. More generally, it will be shown how ‘fuzzy’ predicates on metric spaces, and predicates on presheaves, yield indexed Galois algebras, in basically the same coalgebraic manner.

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