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Interval vs. Point Temporal Logic Model Checking: an Expressiveness Comparison

Authors Laura Bozzelli, Alberto Molinari, Angelo Montanari, Adriano Peron, Pietro Sala

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  • Interval Temporal Logics
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  • Model Checking

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Abstract

Model checking is a powerful method widely explored in formal verification to check the (state-transition) model of a system against desired properties of its behaviour. Classically, properties are expressed by formulas of a temporal logic, such as LTL, CTL, and CTL*. These logics are "point-wise" interpreted, as they describe how the system evolves state-by-state. On the contrary, Halpern and Shoham's interval temporal logic (HS) is "interval-wise" interpreted, thus allowing one to naturally express properties of computation stretches, spanning a sequence of states, or properties involving temporal aggregations, which are inherently "interval-based".

In this paper, we study the expressiveness of HS in model checking, in comparison with that of the standard logics LTL, CTL, and CTL*. To this end, we consider HS endowed with three semantic variants: the state-based semantics, introduced by Montanari et al., which allows branching in the past and in the future, the linear-past semantics, allowing branching only in the future, and the linear semantics, disallowing branching. These variants are compared, as for their expressiveness, among themselves and to standard temporal logics, getting a complete picture. In particular, HS with linear (resp., linear-past) semantics is proved to be equivalent to LTL (resp., finitary CTL*).

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Laura Bozzelli, Alberto Molinari, Angelo Montanari, Adriano Peron, and Pietro Sala. Interval vs. Point Temporal Logic Model Checking: an Expressiveness Comparison. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 26:1-26:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.26

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Laura Bozzelli
Alberto Molinari
Angelo Montanari
Adriano Peron
Pietro Sala

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