A dose of timed logic, in guarded measure

  • Authors:
  • Kamal Lodaya;Paritosh K. Pandya

  • Affiliations:
  • The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India;Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai, India

  • Venue:
  • FORMATS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider interval measurement logic IML, a sublogic of Zhou and Hansen’s interval logic, with measurement functions which provide real-valued measurement of some aspect of system behaviour in a given time interval. We interpret IML over a variety of time domains (continuous, sampled, integer) and show that it can provide a unified treatment of many diverse temporal logics including duration calculus (DC), interval duration logic (IDL) and metric temporal logic (MTL). We introduce a fragment GIML with restricted measurement modalities which subsumes most of the decidable timed logics considered in the literature. Next, we introduce a guarded first-order logic with measurements MGF. As a generalisation of Kamp’s theorem, we show that over arbitrary time domains, the measurement logic GIML is expressively complete for it. We also show that MGF has the 3-variable property. In addition, we have a preliminary result showing the decidability of a subset of GIML when interpreted over timed words.