On decidability of LTL model checking for process rewrite systems

  • Authors:
  • Laura Bozzelli;Mojmír Křetínský;Vojtěch Řehák;Jan Strejček

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Apllicazioni, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy;Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • FSTTCS'06 Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We establish a decidability boundary of the model checking problem for infinite-state systems defined by Process Rewrite Systems (PRS) or weakly extended Process Rewrite Systems (wPRS), and properties described by basic fragments of action-based Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). It is known that the problem for general LTL properties is decidable for Petri nets and for pushdown processes, while it is undecidable for PA processes. As our main result, we show that the problem is decidable for wPRS if we consider properties defined by formulae with only modalities strict eventually and strict always. Moreover, we show that the problem remains undecidable for PA processes even with respect to the LTL fragment with the only modality until or the fragment with modalities next and infinitely often.