Three logics for branching bisimulation

  • Authors:
  • Rocco De Nicola;Frits Vaandrager

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitàdi Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy;CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Three temporal logics are introduced that induce on labeled transition systems the same identifications as branching bisimulation, a behavioral equivalence that aims at ignoring invisible transitions while preserving the branching structure of systems. The first logic is an extension of Hennessy-Milner Logic with an “until” operator. The second one is another extension of Hennessy-Milner Logic, which exploits the power of backward modalities. The third logic is CTL* without the next-time operator. A relevant side-effect of the last characterization is that it sets a bridge between the state- and action-based approaches to the semantics of concurrent systems.