eprintid: 1373
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 40
dir: disk0/00/00/13/73
datestamp: 2012-09-24 13:28:00
lastmod: 2013-03-07 12:56:25
status_changed: 2012-09-24 13:28:00
type: conference_item
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Pettorossi, Alberto
creators_name: Proietti, Maurizio
creators_name: Senni, Valerio
creators_id: 
creators_id: 
creators_id: valerio.senni@imtlucca.it
title: Transformational Verification of Linear Temporal Logic
ispublished: submitted
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
abstract: We present a new method for verifying Linear Temporal
Logic (LTL) properties of finite state reactive systems based on logic programming and program transformation. We encode a finite state system and an LTL property which we want to verify as a logic program on infinite lists. Then we apply a verification method consisting of two steps. In the first step we transform the logic program that encodes the given system and the given property into a new program belonging to the class of the so-called linear monadic !-programs (which are stratified, linear recursive programs defining nullary predicates or unary predicates on infinite lists). This transformation is performed by applying rules that preserve correctness. In the second step we verify the property of interest by using suitable proof rules for linear monadic !-programs. These proof rules can be encoded as a logic program which always terminates, if evaluated by using tabled resolution. Although our method uses standard
program transformation techniques, the computational complexity of the derived verification algorithm is essentially the same as the one of the Lichtenstein-Pnueli algorithm [9], which uses sophisticated ad-hoc techniques.
date: 2009
date_type: submitted
pagerange: 1-17
event_title: CILC09, 24-esimo Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale
event_location: Università di Ferrara, Italy
event_dates: 24-26 Giugno 2009
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
related_url_url: http://www.ing.unife.it/eventi/cilc09/programma.shtml
related_url_type: org
citation:   Pettorossi, Alberto and Proietti, Maurizio and Senni, Valerio  Transformational Verification of Linear Temporal Logic.  In: CILC09, 24-esimo Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale, 24-26 Giugno 2009, Università di Ferrara, Italy pp. 1-17.      (Submitted)   (2009)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1373/1/CILC-09_Senni.pdf