Safraless synthesis for epistemic temporal specifications

Abstract

In this paper we address the synthesis problem for specifications given in linear temporal single-agent epistemic logic, KLTL (or KL 1), over single-agent systems having imperfect information of the environment state. [17] have shown that this problem is 2Exptime complete. However, their procedure relies on complex automata constructions that are notoriously resistant to efficient implementations as they use Safra-like determinization. We propose a "Safraless" synthesis procedure for a large fragment of KLTL. The construction transforms first the synthesis problem into the problem of checking emptiness for universal co-Büchi tree automata using an information-set construction. Then we build a safety game that can be solved using an antichain-based symbolic technique exploiting the structure of the underlying automata. The technique is implemented and applied to a couple of case studies. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.