Rob van Glabbeek ; Bas Luttik ; Nikola Trcka - Computation Tree Logic with Deadlock Detection

lmcs:758 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, December 22, 2009, Volume 5, Issue 4 - https://doi.org/10.2168/LMCS-5(4:5)2009
Computation Tree Logic with Deadlock DetectionArticle

Authors: Rob van Glabbeek ; Bas Luttik ; Nikola Trcka

    We study the equivalence relation on states of labelled transition systems of satisfying the same formulas in Computation Tree Logic without the next state modality (CTL-X). This relation is obtained by De Nicola & Vaandrager by translating labelled transition systems to Kripke structures, while lifting the totality restriction on the latter. They characterised it as divergence sensitive branching bisimulation equivalence. We find that this equivalence fails to be a congruence for interleaving parallel composition. The reason is that the proposed application of CTL-X to non-total Kripke structures lacks the expressiveness to cope with deadlock properties that are important in the context of parallel composition. We propose an extension of CTL-X, or an alternative treatment of non-totality, that fills this hiatus. The equivalence induced by our extension is characterised as branching bisimulation equivalence with explicit divergence, which is, moreover, shown to be the coarsest congruence contained in divergence sensitive branching bisimulation equivalence.


    Volume: Volume 5, Issue 4
    Published on: December 22, 2009
    Imported on: October 6, 2008
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,F.4.1,D.2.4

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