Verification and Synthesis in Description Logic Based Dynamic Systems

Proc. of the 7th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2013). Volume 7994 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2013. Best paper award.

In this paper, we devise a general framework for formalizing Description Logic Based Dynamic Systems that is parametric w.r.t. the description logic knowledge base and the progression mechanism of interest. Using this framework we study verification and adversarial synthesis for specifications expressed in a variant of first-order mu-calculus, with a controlled form of quantification across successive states. We provide key decidability results for both verification and synthesis, under a "bounded-state" assumption. We then study two instantiations of this general framework, where the description logic knowledge base is expressed in DL-Lite and ALCQI , respectively.

@inproceedings{RR-2013,
   title = "Verification and Synthesis in Description Logic Based Dynamic
Systems",
   year = "2013",
   author = "Diego Calvanese and De Giacomo, Giuseppe and Marco Montali
and Fabio Patrizi",
  booktitle = "Proc. of the 7th Int. Conf. on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
(RR 2013)",
   pages = "50--64",
   volume = "7994",
   publisher = "Springer",
   series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
   doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-39666-3_5",
   note = "Best paper award",
}