Pushdown specifications

Orna Kupferman; Nir Piterman; Moshe Y. Vardi

doi:10.1007/3-540-36078-6_18

Pushdown specifications

Orna Kupferman, Nir Piterman, Moshe Y. Vardi

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

Traditionally, model checking is applied to finite-state systems and regular specifications. While researchers have successfully extended the applicability of model checking to infinite-state systems, almost all existing work still consider regular specification formalisms. There are, however, many interesting non-regular properties one would like to model check. In this paper we study model checking of pushdown specifications. Our specification formalism is nondeterministic pushdown parity tree automata (PD-NPT).We show that the model-checking problem for regular systems and PD-NPT specifications can be solved in time exponential in the system and the specification. Our model-checking algorithm involves a new solution to the nonemptiness problem of nondeterministic pushdown tree automata, where we improve the best known upper bound from a triple-exponential to a single exponential. We also consider the model-checking problem for context-free systems and PD-NPT specifications and show that it is undecidable.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 9th International Conference, LPAR 2002, Proceedings
Editors	Matthias Baaz, Andrei Voronkov
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	262-277
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	3540000100, 9783540000105
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36078-6_18
State	Published - 2002
Event	9th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR 2002 - Tbilisi, Georgia Duration: 14 Oct 2002 → 18 Oct 2002

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	2514
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	9th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR 2002
Country/Territory	Georgia
City	Tbilisi
Period	14/10/02 → 18/10/02

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Kupferman, O., Piterman, N., & Vardi, M. Y. (2002). Pushdown specifications. In M. Baaz, & A. Voronkov (Eds.), Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 9th International Conference, LPAR 2002, Proceedings (pp. 262-277). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 2514). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36078-6_18

Kupferman, Orna ; Piterman, Nir ; Vardi, Moshe Y. / Pushdown specifications. Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 9th International Conference, LPAR 2002, Proceedings. editor / Matthias Baaz ; Andrei Voronkov. Springer Verlag, 2002. pp. 262-277 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Kupferman, O, Piterman, N & Vardi, MY 2002, Pushdown specifications. in M Baaz & A Voronkov (eds), Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 9th International Conference, LPAR 2002, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 2514, Springer Verlag, pp. 262-277, 9th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR 2002, Tbilisi, Georgia, 14/10/02. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36078-6_18

Pushdown specifications. / Kupferman, Orna; Piterman, Nir; Vardi, Moshe Y.
Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 9th International Conference, LPAR 2002, Proceedings. ed. / Matthias Baaz; Andrei Voronkov. Springer Verlag, 2002. p. 262-277 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 2514).

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