scholarly journals On the Expressive Power of Some Extensions of Linear Temporal Logic

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 663-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Gnatenko ◽  
V. A. Zakharov
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 506-524
Author(s):  
Anton Gnatenko ◽  
Vladimir Zakharov

One of the most simple models of computation which is suitable for representation of reactive systems behaviour is a finite state transducer which operates over an input alphabet of control signals and an output alphabet of basic actions. The behaviour of such a reactive system displays itself in the correspondence between flows of control signals and compositions of basic actions performed by the system. We believe that the behaviour of this kind requires more suitable and expressive means for formal specifications than the conventionalLT L. In this paper, we define some new (as far as we know) extensionLP-LT Lof Linear Temporal Logic specifically intended for describing the properties of transducers computations. In this extension the temporal operators are parameterized by sets of words (languages) which represent distinguished flows of control signals that impact on a reactive system. Basic predicates in our variant of the temporal logic are also languages in the alphabet of basic actions of a transducer; they represent the expected response of the transducer to the specified environmental influences. In our earlier papers, we considered a model checking problem forLP-LT LandLP-CT Land showed that this problem has effective solutions. The aim of this paper is to estimate the expressive power ofLP-LT Lby comparing it with some well known logics widely used in the computer science for specification of reactive systems behaviour. We discovered that a restricted variant LP-1-LT Lof our logic is more expressive thanLTLand another restricted variantLP-n-LT Lhas the same expressive power as monadic second order logic S1S.


Automatica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 109723
Author(s):  
Sahar Mohajerani ◽  
Robi Malik ◽  
Andrew Wintenberg ◽  
Stéphane Lafortune ◽  
Necmiye Ozay

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

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 927-930
Author(s):  
Zhi Cheng Wen ◽  
Zhi Gang Chen

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.


2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 875-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
BART JACOBS

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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