Campus Units

Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Publication Date

7-12-2019

Journal or Book Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

11562

First Page

3

Last Page

22

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-25543-5_1

Abstract

Mission-time LTL (MLTL) is a bounded variant of MTL over naturals designed to generically specify requirements for mission-based system operation common to aircraft, spacecraft, vehicles, and robots. Despite the utility of MLTL as a specification logic, major gaps remain in analyzing MLTL, e.g., for specification debugging or model checking, centering on the absence of any complete MLTL satisfiability checker. We prove that the MLTL satisfiability checking problem is NEXPTIME-complete and that satisfiability checking MLTL0 , the variant of MLTL where all intervals start at 0, is PSPACE-complete. We introduce translations for MLTL-to-LTL, MLTL-to-LTLf , MLTL-to-SMV, and MLTL-to-SMT, creating four options for MLTL satisfiability checking. Our extensive experimental evaluation shows that the MLTL-to-SMT transition with the Z3 SMT solver offers the most scalable performance.

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This article is published as Li, Jianwen, Moshe Y. Vardi, and Kristin Y. Rozier. "Satisfiability Checking for Mission-Time LTL." Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11562 (2019): 3-22. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25543-5_1. Posted with permission.

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