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From LTL to unambiguous Büchi automata via disambiguation of alternating automata
Ist Teil von
Formal methods in system design, 2021, Vol.58 (1-2), p.42-82
Ort / Verlag
New York: Springer US
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
SpringerLink
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Due to the high complexity of translating linear temporal logic (LTL) to deterministic automata, several forms of “restricted” nondeterminism have been considered with the aim of maintaining some of the benefits of deterministic automata, while at the same time allowing more efficient translations from LTL. One of them is the notion of
unambiguity
. This paper proposes a new algorithm for the generation of unambiguous Büchi automata (UBA) from LTL formulas. Unlike other approaches it is based on a known translation from
very weak alternating automata
(VWAA) to NBA. A notion of unambiguity for alternating automata is introduced and it is shown that the VWAA-to-NBA translation preserves unambiguity. Checking unambiguity of VWAA is determined to be PSPACE-complete, both for the explicit and symbolic encodings of alternating automata. The core of the LTL-to-UBA translation is an iterative disambiguation procedure for VWAA. Several heuristics are introduced for different stages of the procedure. We report on an implementation of our approach in the tool Duggi and compare it to an existing LTL-to-UBA implementation in the SPOT tool set. Our experiments cover model checking of Markov chains, which is an important application of UBA.