SAT-based explicit LTL reasoning and its application to satisfiability checking

Jianwen Li; Shufang Zhu; Geguang Pu; Lijun Zhang; Moshe Y. Vardi

doi:10.1007/s10703-018-00326-5

SAT-based explicit LTL reasoning and its application to satisfiability checking

Jianwen Li, Shufang Zhu, Geguang Pu^*, Lijun Zhang, Moshe Y. Vardi

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Software Engineering Institute

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Abstract

We present here a new explicit reasoning framework for linear temporal logic (LTL), which is built on top of propositional satisfiability (SAT) solving. The crux of our approach is a construction of temporal transition system that is based on SAT-solving rather than tableau to construct states and transitions. As a proof-of-concept of this framework, we describe a new LTL satisfiability algorithm. We tested the effectiveness of this approach by demonstrating that it significantly outperforms all existing LTL-satisfiability-checking algorithms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	164-190
Number of pages	27
Journal	Formal Methods in System Design
Volume	54
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-018-00326-5
State	Published - 1 Nov 2019

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Linear temporal logic
SAT-based LTL checking
Satisfiability checking

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