Title
Simplification of CTL Formulae for Efficient Model Checking of Petri Nets.
Abstract
We study techniques to overcome the state space explosion problem in CTL model checking of Petri nets. Classical state space pruning approaches like partial order reductions and structural reductions become less efficient with the growing size of the CTL formula. The reason is that the more places and transitions are used as atomic propositions in a given formula, the more of the behaviour (interleaving) becomes relevant for the validity of the formula. We suggest several methods to reduce the size of CTL formulae, while preserving their validity. By these methods, we significantly increase the benefits of structural and partial order reductions, as the combination of our techniques can achive up to 60% average reduction in formulae sizes. The algorithms are implemented in the open-source verification tool TAPAAL and we document the efficiency of our approach on a large benchmark of Petri net models and queries from the Model Checking Contest 2017.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
Petri Nets
Model checking,Petri net,Computer science,Atomic sentence,Theoretical computer science,State space,CTL*,Ctl model checking,Interleaving,Distributed computing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
14
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frederik Bønneland100.34
Jakob Dyhr200.34
Peter Gjøl Jensen3329.38
Mads Johannsen400.34
Jirí Srba525228.68