Summary: Model­Checking of Causality Properties
(Appeared in the Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, pp. 90­100, 1995)
Rajeev Alur Doron Peled Wojciech Penczek
AT&T Bell Laboratories Eindhoven University of Technology
600 Mountain Ave. Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 , USA The Netherlands
alur, doron @ research.att.com wojtek @ win.tue.nl
Abstract
A temporal logic for causality (Tlc) is introduced.
The logic is interpreted over causal structures corre­
sponding to partial order executions of programs. For
causal structures describing the behavior of a finite
fixed set of processes, a Tlc­formula can, equivalently,
be interpreted over their linearizations. The main re­
sult of the paper is a tableau construction that gives
a singly­exponential translation from a Tlc formula
' to a Streett automaton that accepts the set of lin­
earizations satisfying '. This allows both checking the
validity of Tlc formulas and model­checking of pro­
gram properties. As the logic Tlc does not distinguish

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