A Decidability Result for the Model Checking of Infinite-State Systems

  • Authors:
  • Daniele Zucchelli;Enrica Nicolini

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20135;LORIA & INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, Villers-les-Nancy, France 54602

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a decidability result for the model checking of a certain class of properties that can be conveniently expressed as ground formulae of a first-order temporal fragment. The decidability result is obtained by importing into the context of model-checking problems some techniques developed for the combination of decision procedures for the satisfiability of constraints. The general decidability result is then specialized for checking properties of particular interest, such as liveness and safety, and, for the latter case, a more optimized algorithm has been proposed.