TemporalLogiken

TemporalLogiken is a formal framework for specifying and verifying time-dependent behavior in computing systems. It combines temporal logic with state-based models to reason about sequences of events over time.

TemporalLogiken refers to a family of formalisms in the field of formal methods that provide domain-specific terminology for temporal specification languages used in software and hardware verification.

Core concepts include temporal operators such as G (globally), F (finally), X (neXt), and U (until) to express properties about time, with semantics defined over transition systems or Kripke structures. It supports discrete-time and real-time extensions. Model checking and deductive verification are common methods.

TemporalLogiken encompasses traditional temporal logics like LTL and CTL and their real-time extensions such as TCTL and MTL, offering a unified syntax and tooling for specification and verification.

Applications include hardware design, software engineering, embedded systems, aerospace, and automotive safety-critical domains. It helps prove properties such as absence of deadlock, safety invariants, and liveness.

An example property in TemporalLogiken is: every request is eventually followed by a grant, written as G (request -> F grant) in LTL-like notation.

See also: temporal logic, model checking, formal methods.