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On Decidability of LTL Model Checking for Process Rewrite Systems

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BOZZELLI Laura KŘETÍNSKÝ Mojmír ŘEHÁK Vojtěch STREJČEK Jan

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference FSTTCS 2006: 26th International Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 26th International Conference, Kolkata, India, December 13-15, 2006, Proceedings
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Faculty of Informatics

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Field Informatics
Keywords infinite-state systems; linear time logic; decidability; model checking
Description We establish a decidability boundary of the model checking problem for infinite-state systems defined by Process Rewrite Systems (PRS), possibly extended with a weak finite-state control unit, and properties described by basic fragments of action-based Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). It is known that the problem for general LTL properties is decidable for Petri nets and for pushdown processes, while it is undecidable for PA processes. As our main result, we show that the problem is decidable for wPRS if we consider properties defined by formulae with only modalities "strict eventually" and "strict always". Moreover, we show that the problem remains undecidable for PA processes even with respect to the LTL fragment with the only modality "until" or the fragment with modalities "next" and "infinitely often".
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