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A coalgebraic approach to linear-time logics

A coalgebraic approach to linear-time logics
A coalgebraic approach to linear-time logics
We extend recent work on defining linear-time behaviour for state-based systems with branching, and propose modal and fixpoint logics for specifying linear-time temporal properties of states in such systems. We model systems with branching as coalgebras whose type arises as the composition of a branching monad and a polynomial endofunctor on the category of sets, and employ a set of truth values induced canonically by the branching monad. This yields logics for reasoning about quantitative aspects of linear-time behaviour. Examples include reasoning about the probability of a linear-time behaviour being exhibited by a system with probabilistic branching, or about the minimal cost of a linear-time behaviour being exhibited by a system with weighted branching. In the case of non-deterministic branching, our logic supports reasoning about the possibility of exhibiting a given linear-time behaviour, and therefore resembles an existential version of the logic LTL
978-3-642-54830-7
0302-9743
426-440
Springer
Cirstea, Corina
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Muscholl, A
Cirstea, Corina
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Muscholl, A

Cirstea, Corina (2014) A coalgebraic approach to linear-time logics. Muscholl, A (ed.) In Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: FoSSaCS 2014. vol. 8412, Springer. pp. 426-440 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-54830-7_28).

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We extend recent work on defining linear-time behaviour for state-based systems with branching, and propose modal and fixpoint logics for specifying linear-time temporal properties of states in such systems. We model systems with branching as coalgebras whose type arises as the composition of a branching monad and a polynomial endofunctor on the category of sets, and employ a set of truth values induced canonically by the branching monad. This yields logics for reasoning about quantitative aspects of linear-time behaviour. Examples include reasoning about the probability of a linear-time behaviour being exhibited by a system with probabilistic branching, or about the minimal cost of a linear-time behaviour being exhibited by a system with weighted branching. In the case of non-deterministic branching, our logic supports reasoning about the possibility of exhibiting a given linear-time behaviour, and therefore resembles an existential version of the logic LTL

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e-pub ahead of print date: 21 March 2014
Published date: 2014
Venue - Dates: 17th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, Grenoble, France, 2014-04-05 - 2014-04-14
Organisations: Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 373410
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/373410
ISBN: 978-3-642-54830-7
ISSN: 0302-9743
PURE UUID: fc2d55a8-2e38-406a-a6a6-af6543d6ba64
ORCID for Corina Cirstea: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-5678

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Author: Corina Cirstea ORCID iD
Editor: A Muscholl

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