Variants of LTL query checking

  • Authors:
  • Hana Chockler;Arie Gurfinkel;Ofer Strichman

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel;Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh;Information Systems Engineering, IE, Technion, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • HVC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Hardware and software: verification and testing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Given a model M and a temporal logic formula ϕ[?], where ? is a placeholder, the query checking problem, as defined for the case of CTL by Chan in 2000, is to find the strongest propositional formula f such that M |= ϕ[? ← f]. The motivation for solving this problem is, among other things, to get insight on the model. We consider various objectives to the LTL query-checking problem, and study the question of whether there is a better solution than simply enumerating all possible formulas (modulo logical equivalence). It turns out that in most cases the answer is no, but there is one particular objective for which the answer - in practice - is definitely yes. The solution is based on a reduction to a Pseudo-Boolean Solving problem.