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A Compositional Hierarchical Monitoring Automaton Construction for LTL

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In this paper we give a compositional (or inductive) construction of monitoring automata for LTL formulas. Our construction is similar in spirit to the compositional construction of Kesten and Pnueli [5]. We introduce the notion of hierarchical Büchi automata and phrase our constructions in the framework of these automata. We give detailed constructions for all the principal LTL operators including past operators, along with proofs of correctness of the constructions.

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D’Souza, D., Matteplackel, R.M. (2012). A Compositional Hierarchical Monitoring Automaton Construction for LTL. In: Roychoudhury, A., D’Souza, M. (eds) Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2012. ICTAC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32943-2_2

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