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A Data Symmetry Reduction Technique for Temporal-epistemic Logic

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Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2009)

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We present a data symmetry reduction approach for model checking temporal-epistemic logic. The technique abstracts the epistemic indistinguishably relation for the knowledge operators, and is shown to preserve temporal-epistemic formulae. We show a method for statically detecting data symmetry in an ISPL program, the input to the temporal-epistemic model checker MCMAS. The experiments we report show an exponential saving in verification time and space while verifying security properties of the NSPK protocol.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

    Mika Cohen & Alessio Lomuscio

  2. Access Linnaeus Center, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

    Mads Dam

  3. Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

    Hongyang Qu

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  1. International Institute of Software Technology (UNI-IIST), United Nations University, Macao, China

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  2. Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark

    Anders P. Ravn

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Cohen, M., Dam, M., Lomuscio, A., Qu, H. (2009). A Data Symmetry Reduction Technique for Temporal-epistemic Logic. In: Liu, Z., Ravn, A.P. (eds) Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. ATVA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5799. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04761-9_6

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