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    A modal logic for pi-calculus and model checking algorithm

    Chen, Taolue and Han, Tingting and Lu, J. (2005) A modal logic for pi-calculus and model checking algorithm. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 123 (1), pp. 19-33. ISSN 1571-0661.

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    Abstract

    The π-calculus is one of the most important mobile process calculi and has been well studied in the literatures. Temporal logic is thought as a good compromise between description convenience and abstraction and can support useful computational applications, such as model-checking. In this paper, we use symbolic transition graph inherited from π-calculus to model concurrent systems. A wide class of processes, that is, the finite-control processes can be represented as finite symbolic transition graph. A new version π-μ-Logic is introduced as an appropriate temporal logic for the π-calculus. Since we make a distinction between proposition and predicate, the possible interactions between recursion and first-order quantification can be solved. A concise semantics interpretation for our modal logic is given. Based on the above work, we provide a model checking algorithm for the logic, which follows the well-known Winskel's tag set method to deal with fixpoint operator. As for the problem of name instantiating, our algorithm follows the 'on-the-fly' style, and systematically employs schematic names. The correctness of the algorithm is shown.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2021 19:33
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:50
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/42959

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