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Promptness and Bounded Fairness in Concurrent and Parameterized Systems

Logic in Computer Science 2019-11-18 v2 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We investigate the satisfaction of specifications in Prompt Linear Temporal Logic (Prompt-LTL) by concurrent systems. Prompt-LTL is an extension of LTL that allows to specify parametric bounds on the satisfaction of eventualities, thus adding a quantitative aspect to the specification language. We establish a connection between bounded fairness, bounded stutter equivalence, and the satisfaction of Prompt-LTL\X formulas. Based on this connection, we prove the first cutoff results for different classes of systems with a parametric number of components and quantitative specifications, thereby identifying previously unknown decidable fragments of the parameterized model checking problem.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1911.03122,
  title  = {Promptness and Bounded Fairness in Concurrent and Parameterized Systems},
  author = {Swen Jacobs and Mouhammad Sakr and Martin Zimmermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03122},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in VMCAI 2020

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