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2009 24th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science
On the Computational Complexity of Verifying One-Counter Processes
Los Angeles, California
August 11-August 14
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3746-7
One-counter processes are pushdown systems over a singleton stack alphabet (plus a stack-bottom symbol). We study the complexity of two closely related verification problems over one-counter processes: model checking with the temporal logic EF, where formulas are given as directed acyclic graphs, and weak bisimilarity checking against finite systems. We show that both problems are $\P^\NP$-complete. This is achieved by establishing a close correspondence with the membership problem for a natural fragment of Presburger Arithmetic, which we show to be$\P^\NP$-complete. This fragment is also a suitable representation for the global versions of the problems. We also show that there already exists a fixed EF formula(resp. a fixed finite system) such that model checking (resp. weak bisimulation) over one-counter processes is hard for $\P^{\NP[\log]}$. However, the complexity drops to $\P$ if the one-counter process is fixed.
Index Terms:
Computational Complexity, Model Checking, Bisimulation
Citation:
Stefan Göller, Richard Mayr, Anthony Widjaja To, "On the Computational Complexity of Verifying One-Counter Processes," lics, pp.235-244, 2009 24th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science, 2009
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