Deciding Hyperproperties Combined with Functional Specifications

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Contributors

  • Raven Beutner - , CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Author)
  • David Carral - , University of Montpellier (Author)
  • Bernd Finkbeiner - , CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Author)
  • Jana Hofmann - , CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Author)
  • Markus Krötzsch - , Chair of Knowledge-based Systems (cfaed) (Author)

Abstract

We study satisfability for HyperLTL with a ?*?* quantifer prefx, known to be highly undecidable in general. HyperLTL can express system properties that relate multiple traces (so-called hyperproperties), which are often combined with trace properties that specify functional behavior on single traces. Following this conceptual split, we frst defne several safety and liveness fragments of ?*?* HyperLTL, and characterize the complexity of their (often much easier) satisfability problem. We then add LTL trace properties as functional specifcations. Though (highly) undecidable in many cases, this way of combining "simple"HyperLTL and arbitrary LTL also leads to interesting new decidable fragments. This systematic study of ?*?* fragments is complemented by a new (incomplete) algorithm for *-HyperLTL satisfability.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2022)
EditorsChristel Baier, Dana Fisman
PublisherACM Press
Pages56:1–56:13
ISBN (electronic)9781450393515
ISBN (print)978-1-4503-9351-5
Publication statusPublished - 2 Aug 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85132141560

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Keywords

  • HyperLTL, Hyperproperties, Satisfability