Title :
Frequency Linear-time Temporal Logic
Author :
Bollig, Benedikt ; Decker, Normann ; Leucker, Martin
Author_Institution :
INRIA Cachan, ENS Cachan, Cachan, France
Abstract :
We propose fLTL, an extension to linear-time temporal logic (LTL) that allows for expressing relative frequencies by a generalization of temporal operators. This facilitates the specification of requirements such as the deadlines in a realtime system must be met in at least 95% of all cases. For our novel logic, we establish an undecidability result regarding the satisfiability problem but identify a decidable fragment which strictly increases the expressiveness of LTL by allowing, e.g., to express non-context-free properties.
Keywords :
computability; formal specification; real-time systems; temporal logic; decidable fragment; fLTL; frequency linear-time temporal logic; noncontext-free properties; real-time system; requirements specification; satisfiability problem; temporal operators; undecidability; Availability; Encoding; Radiation detectors; Semantics; Software engineering; Standards; Syntactics; LTL; availability; counters; frequency; specification; symbolic tableau; temporal logic;
Conference_Titel :
Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE), 2012 Sixth International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2353-6
DOI :
10.1109/TASE.2012.43