TY - GEN
T1 - From liveness to promptness
AU - Kupferman, Orna
AU - Piterman, Nir
AU - Vardi, Moshe Y.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Liveness temporal properties state that something "good" eventually happens, e.g., every request is eventually granted. In Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), there is no a priori bound on the "wait time" for an eventuality to be fulfilled. That is, Fθ asserts that θ holds eventually, but there is no bound on the time when θ will hold. This is troubling, as designers tend to interpret an eventuality Fθ as an abstraction of a bounded eventuality F≤kθ, for an unknown k, and satisfaction of a liveness property is often not acceptable unless we can bound its wait time. We introduce here PROMPT-LTL, an extension of LTL with the prompt-eventually operator Fp. A system S satisfies a PROMPT-LTL formula φ if there is some bound k on the wait time for all prompt-eventually subformulas of φ in all computations of S. We study various problems related to PROMPT-LTL, including realizability, model checking, and assume-guarantee model checking, and show that they can be solved by techniques that are quite close to the standard techniques for LTL.
AB - Liveness temporal properties state that something "good" eventually happens, e.g., every request is eventually granted. In Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), there is no a priori bound on the "wait time" for an eventuality to be fulfilled. That is, Fθ asserts that θ holds eventually, but there is no bound on the time when θ will hold. This is troubling, as designers tend to interpret an eventuality Fθ as an abstraction of a bounded eventuality F≤kθ, for an unknown k, and satisfaction of a liveness property is often not acceptable unless we can bound its wait time. We introduce here PROMPT-LTL, an extension of LTL with the prompt-eventually operator Fp. A system S satisfies a PROMPT-LTL formula φ if there is some bound k on the wait time for all prompt-eventually subformulas of φ in all computations of S. We study various problems related to PROMPT-LTL, including realizability, model checking, and assume-guarantee model checking, and show that they can be solved by techniques that are quite close to the standard techniques for LTL.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-73368-3_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-73368-3_44
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AN - SCOPUS:38149134374
SN - 3540733671
SN - 9783540733676
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 406
EP - 419
BT - Computer Aided Verification - 19th International Conference, CAV 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 19th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2007
Y2 - 3 July 2007 through 7 July 2007
ER -