Constructing automata from temporal logic formulas: a tutorial

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Wolper

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. de Liége, Liége, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Lectures on formal methods and performance analysis
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents a tutorial introduction to the construction of finite-automata on infinite words from linear-time temporal logic formulas. After defining the source and target formalisms, it describes a first construction whose correctness is quite direct to establish, but whose behavior is always equal to the worst-case upper bound. It then turns to the techniques that can be used to improve this algorithm in order to obtain the quite effective algorithms that are now in use.