CTL* Verification and Synthesis using Existential Horn Clauses

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Main Authors: Carelli, Mishel, Grumberg, Orna
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author Carelli, Mishel
Grumberg, Orna
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Grumberg, Orna
contents This work proposes a novel approach for automatic verification and synthesis of infinite-state reactive programs with respect to ${CTL}^*$ specifications, based on translation to Existential Horn Clauses (EHCs). $CTL^*$ is a powerful temporal logic, which subsumes the temporal logics LTL and CTL, both widely used in specification, verification, and synthesis of complex systems. EHCs with its solver E-HSF, is an extension of Constrained Horn Clauses, which includes existential quantification as well as the power of handling well-foundedness. We develop the translation system \textit{Trans}, which given a verification problem consisting of a program $P$ and a specification $ϕ$, builds a set of EHCs which is satisfiable iff $P$ satisfies $ϕ$. We also develop a synthesis algorithm that given a program with holes in conditions and assignments, fills the holes so that the synthesized program satisfies the given $CTL^*$ specification. We prove that our verification and synthesis algorithms are both sound and relative complete. Finally, we present case studies to demonstrate the applicability of our algorithms for $CTL^*$ verification and synthesis.
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Carelli, Mishel
Grumberg, Orna
Logic in Computer Science
This work proposes a novel approach for automatic verification and synthesis of infinite-state reactive programs with respect to ${CTL}^*$ specifications, based on translation to Existential Horn Clauses (EHCs). $CTL^*$ is a powerful temporal logic, which subsumes the temporal logics LTL and CTL, both widely used in specification, verification, and synthesis of complex systems. EHCs with its solver E-HSF, is an extension of Constrained Horn Clauses, which includes existential quantification as well as the power of handling well-foundedness. We develop the translation system \textit{Trans}, which given a verification problem consisting of a program $P$ and a specification $ϕ$, builds a set of EHCs which is satisfiable iff $P$ satisfies $ϕ$. We also develop a synthesis algorithm that given a program with holes in conditions and assignments, fills the holes so that the synthesized program satisfies the given $CTL^*$ specification. We prove that our verification and synthesis algorithms are both sound and relative complete. Finally, we present case studies to demonstrate the applicability of our algorithms for $CTL^*$ verification and synthesis.
title CTL* Verification and Synthesis using Existential Horn Clauses
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11502