Beyersdorff, O, Meier, A, Mundhenk, M et al. (3 more authors) (2011) Model Checking CTL is Amost Always Inherently Sequential. Logical Methods in Computer Science, 7 (2). ISSN 1860-5974
Abstract
The model checking problem for CTL is known to be P-complete (Clarke, Emerson, and Sistla (1986), see Schnoebelen (2002)). We consider fragments of CTL obtained by restricting the use of temporal modalities or the use of negations---restrictions already studied for LTL by Sistla and Clarke (1985) and Markey (2004). For all these fragments, except for the trivial case without any temporal operator, we systematically prove model checking to be either inherently sequential (P-complete) or very efficiently parallelizable (LOGCFL-complete). For most fragments, however, model checking for CTL is already P-complete. Hence our results indicate that, in cases where the combined complexity is of relevance, approaching CTL model checking by parallelism cannot be expected to result in any significant speedup. We also completely determine the complexity of the model checking problem for all fragments of the extensions ECTL, CTL+, and ECTL+.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2011 Beyersdorff et al; licensee IfCoLoq. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Model checking, temporal logic, complexity |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Institute for Computational and Systems Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2012 12:25 |
Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2017 22:57 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | International Federation of Computational Logic |
Identification Number: | 10.2168/LMCS-7(2:12)2011 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:74437 |