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Generating oracles from your favorite temporal logic specifications

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 21, Issue 6

Pages 106 - 117

https://doi.org/10.1145/250707.239116

Published: 01 October 1996 Publication History

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This paper describes a generic tableau algorithm, which is the basis for a general customizable method for producing oracles from temporal logic specifications. A generic argument gives semantic rules with which to build the semantic tableau for a specification. Parameterizing the tableau algorithm by semantic rules permits it to easily accommodate a variety of temporal operators and provides a clean mechanism for fine-tuning the algorithm to produce efficient oracles.The paper develops conditions to ensure that a set of rules results in a correct tableau procedure. It gives sample rules for a variety of linear-time temporal operators and shows how rules are tailored to reduce the size of an oracle.

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