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Logic and Computation Seminar

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 4:30pm

Deepak D'Souza

Indian Institute of Science

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

In this talk we consider a natural extension of Linear-time Temporal Logic (LTL) with constraints interpreted over a concrete domain like the integers Z, with the relations < and =. While the model-checking problem for the logic reduces easily to that of LTL, the satisfiability problem is non-trivial even for common domains like (Z,<,=). We use a new automata-theoretic technique to show PSPACE decidability of the satisfiability problem of the logic for the constraint systems (Z,<,=) and (N,<,=). This is joint work with Stephane Demri, LSV ENS-Cachan.