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Model Checking Birth and Death

Joost-Pieter Katoen
University of Twente, Holland

Abstract
In this talk we propose Allocational Temporal Logic (AllTL) as a formalism to express properties concerning the dynamic allocation (birth) and de-allocation (death) of entities, such as the objects in an object-based system. The logic is interpreted on History-Dependent B"uchi Automata, extended with a symbolic representation for certain cases of unbounded allocation. We also present a simple imperative language with primitive statements for (de)allocation, and provide it with a finite-state operational semantics, to demonstrate the kind of behaviour that can be modelled. The main result that we will present is a tableau-based model-checking algorithm for AllTL, along the lines of Lichtenstein and Pnueli's algorithm for LTL.


ASTEC seminar
June 6, 2002

Place: Information technology, Uppsala University
Room: 1113
Time: 13.15-14.00 (+ discussions)

Room 1113 is in building 1, floor 1, room 13 (in the southern part of the building).

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