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A Monitoring Tool for Linear-Time \(\mu \)HML

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We present the implementation of a prototype tool that runtime checks specifications written in a maximally-expressive safety fragment of the linear-time modal \(\mu \)-calculus called \(\textsc {max}\textsc {HML}\). Our technical development is founded on previous results that give a compositional synthesis procedure for generating monitors from \(\textsc {max}\textsc {HML}\) formulae. This paper instantiates this synthesis to a first-order setting, where systems produce executions containing events that carry data. We augment the logic with predicates over data, and extend the synthesis procedure to generate executable monitors for Erlang, a general-purpose programming language. These monitors are instrumented via inlining to induce minimal runtime overhead. Our monitoring algorithm also maintains information, which it uses to explain how verdicts are reached.

Supported by the doctoral student grant (No: 207055) and the MoVeMnt project (No: 217987) of the Icelandic Research Fund, the BehAPI project funded by the EU H2020 RISE of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie action (No: 778233), the ENDEAVOUR Scholarship Scheme (Group B, national funds), and the MIUR project PRIN 2017FTXR7S IT MATTERS.

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Aceto, L., Achilleos, A., Attard, D.P., Exibard, L., Francalanza, A., Ingólfsdóttir, A. (2022). A Monitoring Tool for Linear-Time \(\mu \)HML. In: ter Beek, M.H., Sirjani, M. (eds) Coordination Models and Languages. COORDINATION 2022. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 13271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08143-9_12

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