2007 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
LTL Model Checking
verfasst von : Manuel Clavel, Francisco Durán, Steven Eker, Patrick Lincoln, Narciso Martí-Oliet, José Meseguer, Carolyn Talcott
Erschienen in: All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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As pointed out in Section 1.4, given a Maude system module, we can distinguish two levels of specification:
a
system specification
level, provided by the rewrite theory specified by that system module which defines the behavior of the system, and
a
property specification
level, given by some property (or properties)
φ
that we want to state and prove about our module.
This chapter discusses how a specific property specification logic,
linear temporal logic
(LTL), and a decision procedure for it,
model checking
, can be used to prove properties when the set of states reachable from an initial state in a system module is finite. It also explains how this is supported in Maude by its
MODEL-CHECKER
module, and other related modules, including the
SAT-SOLVER
module that can be used to check both satisfiability of an LTL formula and LTL tautologies. These modules are found in the file
model-checker.maude
.
Temporal logic allows specification of properties such as safety properties (ensuring that something bad never happens) and liveness properties (ensuring that something good eventually happens). These properties are related to the
infinite behavior
of a system. There are different temporal logics [54]; we focus on linear temporal logic [194, 54], because of its intuitive appeal, widespread use, and well-developed proof methods and decision procedures.