Reasoning About Infinite Computations
@article{Vardi1994ReasoningAI,
title={Reasoning About Infinite Computations},
author={Moshe Y. Vardi and Pierre Wolper},
journal={Inf. Comput.},
year={1994},
volume={115},
pages={1-37}
}We investigate extensions of temporal logic by connectives defined by finite automata on infinite words. We consider three different logics, corresponding to three different types of acceptance conditions (finite, looping, and repeating) for the automata. It turns out, however that these logics all have the same expressive power and that their decision problems are all PSPACE-complete. We also investigate connectives defined by alternating automata and show that they do not increase the…
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