Paul Wild ; Lutz Schröder - Characteristic Logics for Behavioural Hemimetrics via Fuzzy Lax Extensions

lmcs:7351 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, June 15, 2022, Volume 18, Issue 2 - https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-18(2:19)2022
Characteristic Logics for Behavioural Hemimetrics via Fuzzy Lax ExtensionsArticle

Authors: Paul Wild ; Lutz Schröder

    In systems involving quantitative data, such as probabilistic, fuzzy, or metric systems, behavioural distances provide a more fine-grained comparison of states than two-valued notions of behavioural equivalence or behaviour inclusion. Like in the two-valued case, the wide variation found in system types creates a need for generic methods that apply to many system types at once. Approaches of this kind are emerging within the paradigm of universal coalgebra, based either on lifting pseudometrics along set functors or on lifting general real-valued (fuzzy) relations along functors by means of fuzzy lax extensions. An immediate benefit of the latter is that they allow bounding behavioural distance by means of fuzzy (bi-)simulations that need not themselves be hemi- or pseudometrics; this is analogous to classical simulations and bisimulations, which need not be preorders or equivalence relations, respectively. The known generic pseudometric liftings, specifically the generic Kantorovich and Wasserstein liftings, both can be extended to yield fuzzy lax extensions, using the fact that both are effectively given by a choice of quantitative modalities. Our central result then shows that in fact all fuzzy lax extensions are Kantorovich extensions for a suitable set of quantitative modalities, the so-called Moss modalities. For nonexpansive fuzzy lax extensions, this allows for the extraction of quantitative modal logics that characterize behavioural distance, i.e. satisfy a quantitative version of the Hennessy-Milner theorem; equivalently, we obtain expressiveness of a quantitative version of Moss' coalgebraic logic. All our results explicitly hold also for asymmetric distances (hemimetrics), i.e. notions of quantitative simulation.


    Volume: Volume 18, Issue 2
    Published on: June 15, 2022
    Accepted on: May 10, 2022
    Submitted on: April 12, 2021
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,68Q85, 03B45, 03B52,F.4.1,I.2.4

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