One-Pass and Tree-Shaped Tableau Systems for TPTL and TPTLb+Past

Luca Geatti
(University of Udine, Italy)
Nicola Gigante
(University of Udine, Italy)
Angelo Montanari
(University of Udine, Italy)
Mark Reynolds
(University of Western Australia)

In this paper, we propose a novel one-pass and tree-shaped tableau method for Timed Propositional Temporal Logic and for a bounded variant of its extension with past operators. Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL) is a real-time temporal logic, with an EXPSPACE-complete satisfiability problem, which has been successfully applied to the verification of real-time systems. In contrast to LTL, adding past operators to TPTL makes the satisfiability problem for the resulting logic (TPTL+P) non-elementary. In this paper, we devise a one-pass and tree-shaped tableau for both TPTL and bounded TPTL+P (TPTLb+P), a syntactic restriction introduced to encode timeline-based planning problems, which recovers the EXPSPACE-complete complexity. The tableau systems for TPTL and TPTLb+P are presented in a unified way, being very similar to each other, providing a common skeleton that is then specialised to each logic. In doing that, we characterise the semantics of TPTLb+P in terms of a purely syntactic fragment of TPTL+P, giving a translation that embeds the former into the latter. Soundness and completeness of the system are proved fully. In particular, we give a greatly simplified model-theoretic completeness proof, which sidesteps the complex combinatorial argument used by known proofs for the one-pass and tree-shaped tableau systems for LTL and LTL+P.

In Andrea Orlandini and Martin Zimmermann: Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification (GandALF 2018), Saarbrücken, Germany, 26-28th September 2018, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 277, pp. 176–190.
Published: 7th September 2018.

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