Partial Model Checking and Partial Model Synthesis in LTL Using a Tableau-Based Approach

Authors Serenella Cerrito , Valentin Goranko , Sophie Paillocher



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Serenella Cerrito
  • Université Paris Saclay, Univ EVRY, France
Valentin Goranko
  • Stockholm University, Sweden
  • and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (visiting professorship)
Sophie Paillocher
  • Université Paris Saclay Univ EVRY, France

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We thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and helpful comments.

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Serenella Cerrito, Valentin Goranko, and Sophie Paillocher. Partial Model Checking and Partial Model Synthesis in LTL Using a Tableau-Based Approach. In 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 260, pp. 23:1-23:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2023.23

Abstract

In the process of designing a computer system S and checking whether an abstract model ℳ of S verifies a given specification property η, one might have only a partial knowledge of the model, either because ℳ has not yet been completely defined (constructed) by the designer, or because it is not completely observable by the verifier. This leads to new verification problems, subsuming satisfiability and model checking as special cases. We state and discuss these problems in the case of LTL specifications, and develop a uniform tableau-based approach for their solutions.

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  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
  • Theory of computation → Modal and temporal logics
  • Theory of computation → Verification by model checking
Keywords
  • Linear temporal logic LTL
  • partial transition systems
  • partial model checking
  • partial model synthesis
  • tableaux

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