Approximate LTL model checking
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Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) model checking has been applied to many fields. However, the state explosion problem and the exponentially computational complexity restrict the further applications of LTL model checking. A lot of approaches have been presented to address these problems. And they work well. However, the essential issue has not been resolved due to the limitation of inherent complexity of the problem. As a result, the running time of LTL model checking algorithms will be inacceptable if a LTL formula is too long. To this end, this study tries to seek an acceptable approximate solution for LTL model checking by introducing the Machine Learning (ML) technique, and a method for predicting results of LTL model checking via the Boosted Tree (BT) algorithm is proposed in this paper. First, for a number of Kripke structures and LTL formulas, a data set A containing model checking results is obtained, using the existing LTL model checking algorithm. Second, the LTL model checking problem can be induced to a binary classification problem of machine learning. In other words, some records in A form a training set for the BT algorithm. On the basis of it, a ML model M is obtained to predict the results of LTL model checking. As a result, an approximate LTL model checking technique occurs. The experiments show that the new method has the average accuracy of 95.6 average efficiency is 2.67 million times higher than that of the representative model checking method, if the length of each of LTL formulas equals to 500.These results indicate that the new method can quickly and accurately determine results of LTL model checkingfor a given Kripke structure and a given long LTL formula since the new method avoid the famous state explosion problem.
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