Thirteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'06) Is There a Future for Deductive Temporal Verification? Budapest, Hungary June 15-June 17 ISBN: 0-7695-2617-9
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TIME.2006.19
In this paper, we consider a tractable sub-class of propositional linear time temporal logic, and provide a complete clausal resolution calculus for it. The fragment is important as it can be used to represent simple B?uchi automata. We also show that, just as the emptiness check for a B?uchi automaton is tractable, the complexity of deciding unsatisfiability, via resolution, of our logic is polynomial (rather than exponential). Consequently, a B?uchi automaton can be represented within our logic, and its emptiness can be tractably decided via deductive methods. This may have a significant impact upon approaches to verification, since techniques such as model checking inherently depend on the ability to check emptiness of an appropriate B?uchi automaton. Thus, we also discuss how such a logic might form the basis for practical deductive temporal verification.
Index Terms:
fragments of PTL; deductive verification; complexity; clausal temporal resolution.
Citation:
Clare Dixon, Michael Fisher, Boris Konev, "Is There a Future for Deductive Temporal Verification?," time, pp.11-18, Thirteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'06), 2006 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||