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Efficient Runtime Verification of First-Order Temporal Properties

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Runtime verification allows monitoring the execution of a system against a temporal property, raising an alarm if the property is violated. In this paper we present a theory and system for runtime verification of a first-order past time linear temporal logic. The first-order nature of the logic allows a monitor to reason about events with data elements. While runtime verification of propositional temporal logic requires only a fixed amount of memory, the first-order variant has to deal with a number of data values potentially growing unbounded in the length of the execution trace. This requires special compactness considerations in order to allow checking very long executions. In previous work we presented an efficient use of BDDs for such first-order runtime verification, implemented in the tool DejaVu. We first summarize this previous work. Subsequently, we look at the new problem of dynamically identifying when data observed in the past are no longer needed, allowing to reclaim the data elements used to represent them. We also study the problem of adding relations over data values. Finally, we present parts of the implementation, including a new concept of user defined property macros.

The research performed by the first author was carried out at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The research performed by the second author was partially funded by Israeli Science Foundation grant 2239/15: “Runtime Measuring and Checking of Cyber Physical Systems”.

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Notes

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    For dealing with finite domains see [18].

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    \(\upgamma \, [ x \mapsto a ]\) is the overriding of \(\upgamma \) with the binding \([ x \mapsto a ]\).

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    An additional 530 lines of property independent boilerplate code is generated.

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    Klaus Havelund

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Havelund, K., Peled, D. (2018). Efficient Runtime Verification of First-Order Temporal Properties. In: Gallardo, M., Merino, P. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10869. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94111-0_2

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