Title
A Modal Logic for pi-Calculus and Model Checking Algorithm
Abstract
The π-calculus is one of the most important mobile process calculi and has been well studied in the literatures. Temporal logic is thought as a good compromise between description convenience and abstraction and can support useful computational applications, such as model-checking. In this paper, we use symbolic transition graph inherited from π-calculus to model concurrent systems. A wide class of processes, that is, the finite-control processes can be represented as finite symbolic transition graph. A new version π-μ-Logic is introduced as an appropriate temporal logic for the π-calculus. Since we make a distinction between proposition and predicate, the possible interactions between recursion and first-order quantification can be solved. A concise semantics interpretation for our modal logic is given. Based on the above work, we provide a model checking algorithm for the logic, which follows the well-known Winskel's tag set method to deal with fixpoint operator. As for the problem of name instantiating, our algorithm follows the 'on-the-fly' style, and systematically employs schematic names. The correctness of the algorithm is shown.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.entcs.2004.04.043
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
π-calculus,Symbolic Transition Graph,π-μ-logic,Model Checking Algorithm
Journal
123
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1571-0661
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taolue Chen159953.41
Tingting Han2987.34
Jian Lu315517.81