Temporal Logic with Predicate "-Abstraction

  • Authors:
  • Alexei Lisitsa;Igor Potapov

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Liverpool;University of Liverpool

  • Venue:
  • TIME '05 Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A predicate linear temporal logic LTL_驴= without quantifiers but with predicate 驴-abstraction mechanism and equality is considered. The models of LTL_驴= can be naturally seen as the systems of pebbles (flexible constants) moving over the elements of some (possibly infinite) domain. This allows to use LTL_驴= for the specification of dynamicsystems using some resources, such as processes using memory locations, mobile agents occupying some sites, etc. On the other hand we show that LTL_驴= is not recursively axiomatizable and, therefore, fully automated verification of LTL_驴= specifications via validity checking is not, in general, possible. The result is based on computational universality of the above abstract computational model of pebble systems, which is of independent interest due to the range of possible interpretations of such systems.