LTL to Deterministic Emerson-Lei Automata

Autor: David Müller, Salomon Sickert
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 256, Iss Proc. GandALF 2017, Pp 180-194 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-2180
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.256.13
Popis: We introduce a new translation from linear temporal logic (LTL) to deterministic Emerson-Lei automata, which are omega-automata with a Muller acceptance condition symbolically expressed as a Boolean formula. The richer acceptance condition structure allows the shift of complexity from the state space to the acceptance condition. Conceptually the construction is an enhanced product construction that exploits knowledge of its components to reduce the number of states. We identify two fragments of LTL, for which one can easily construct deterministic automata and show how knowledge of these components can reduce the number of states. We extend this idea to a general LTL framework, where we can use arbitrary LTL to deterministic automata translators for parts of formulas outside the mentioned fragments. Further, we show succinctness of the translation compared to existing construction. The construction is implemented in the tool Delag, which we evaluate on several benchmarks of LTL formulas and probabilistic model checking case studies.
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