Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

A Decidable Temporal Logic of Parallelism

Mark Reynolds

Abstract

In this paper we shall introduce a simple temporal logic suitable for reasoning about the temporal aspects of parallel universes, parallel processes, distributed systems, or multiple agents. We will use a variant of the mosaic method to prove decidability of this logic. We also show that the logic does not have the finite model property. This shows that the mosaic method is sometimes a stronger way of establishing decidability.

Article information

Source
Notre Dame J. Formal Logic, Volume 38, Number 3 (1997), 419-436.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 12 December 2002

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1039700748

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1039700748

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1624966

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0904.03010

Citation

Reynolds, Mark. A Decidable Temporal Logic of Parallelism. Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 38 (1997), no. 3, 419--436. doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1039700748. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1039700748

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