Logics in Computer Science - A Study on Extensions of Temporal and Strategic Logics

In this monograph we introduce and examine four new temporal logic formalisms that can be used as specification languages for the automated verification of the reliability of hardware and software designs with respect to a desired behavior. The work is organized in two parts. In the first part two logics for computations, the graded computation tree logic and the computation tree logic with minimal model quantifiers are discussed. These have proved to be useful in describing correct executions of monolithic closed systems. The second part focuses on logics for strategies, strategy logic and memoryful alternating-time temporal logic, which have been successfully applied to formalize several properties of interactive plays in multi-entities systems modeled as multi-agent games.

List of contents

Graded Computation Tree Logic.- Minimal Model Quantifiers.- Reasoning About Strategies.- Relentful Strategic Reasoning.- Appendix A Mathematical Notation.

Summary

In this monograph we introduce and examine four new temporal logic formalisms that can be used as specification languages for the automated verification of the reliability of hardware and software designs with respect to a desired behavior. The work is organized in two parts. In the first part two logics for computations, the graded computation tree logic and the computation tree logic with minimal model quantifiers are discussed. These have proved to be useful in describing correct executions of monolithic closed systems. The second part focuses on logics for strategies, strategy logic and memoryful alternating-time temporal logic, which have been successfully applied to formalize several properties of interactive plays in multi-entities systems modeled as multi-agent games.

Product details

• Authors: Fabio Mogavero
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9789462390560
• ISBN: 978-94-62-39056-0
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 9 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 266 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 149 p.
• Series: Atlantis Studies in Computing; Atlantis Studies in Computing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; B, Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Mathematics and Statistics, Algorithms & data structures, Mathematical theory of computation, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Mathematical logic, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Computer architecture & logic design, Computer logic