Weight Monitoring with Linear Temporal Logic: Complexity and Decidability

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Abstract

Many important performance and reliability measures can be formalized as the accumulated values of weight functions. In this paper, we introduce an extension of linear time logic including past (LTL) with new operators that impose constraints on the accumulated weight along path fragments. The fragments are characterized by regular conditions formalized by deterministic finite automata (monitor DFA). This new logic covers properties expressible by several recently proposed formalisms. We study the model-checking problem for weighted transition systems, Markov chains and Markov decision processes with rational weights. While the general problem is undecidable, we provide algorithms and sharp complexity bounds for several sublogics that arise by restricting the monitoring DFA.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCSL-LICS '14: Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)v
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York
Pages1-10
ISBN (print)978-1-4503-2886-9
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

TitleJoint Meeting of the Twenty-Third EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
Abbreviated titleCSL-LICS '14
Conference number
Duration14 - 18 July 2014
Degree of recognitionInternational event
Location
CityWien
CountryAustria

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5321-9343/work/142236737
Scopus 84905985299

Keywords

Keywords

  • weight monitoring, complexity, linear temporal logic, decidability