Benjamin Bisping ; David N. Jansen ; Uwe Nestmann - Deciding All Behavioral Equivalences at Once: A Game for Linear-Time--Branching-Time Spectroscopy

lmcs:8541 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, August 9, 2022, Volume 18, Issue 3 - https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-18(3:19)2022
Deciding All Behavioral Equivalences at Once: A Game for Linear-Time--Branching-Time SpectroscopyArticle

Authors: Benjamin Bisping ORCID; David N. Jansen ORCID; Uwe Nestmann

We introduce a generalization of the bisimulation game that finds distinguishing Hennessy-Milner logic formulas from every finitary, subformula-closed language in van Glabbeek's linear-time--branching-time spectrum between two finite-state processes. We identify the relevant dimensions that measure expressive power to yield formulas belonging to the coarsest distinguishing behavioral preorders and equivalences; the compared processes are equivalent in each coarser behavioral equivalence from the spectrum. We prove that the induced algorithm can determine the best fit of (in)equivalences for a pair of processes.


Volume: Volume 18, Issue 3
Published on: August 9, 2022
Accepted on: June 10, 2022
Submitted on: October 1, 2021
Keywords: Computer Science - Computer Science and Game Theory, Computer Science - Formal Languages and Automata Theory, Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science, F.2.2, F.4.1

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