Abstract
We study in a first part of this paper safety and liveness properties for any given program semantics. We give a topological definition of these properties using a safety preorder. Then, we consider the case of branching time semantics where a program is modeled by a set of infinite computation trees modulo bisimulation. We propose and study a safety preorder for this semantics based on simulation and dealing with silent actions. We focus on regular safety properties and characterize them by both tree-automata and formulas of a branching time logic. We show that verifying safety properties on trees reduces to simulation testing.
This work was partially supported by ESPRIT Basic Research Action “SPEC”
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Bouajjani, A., Fernandez, J.C., Graf, S., Rodriguez, C., Sifakis, J. (1991). Safety for branching time semantics. In: Albert, J.L., Monien, B., Artalejo, M.R. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 510. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54233-7_126
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