20 research outputs found
Characteristic Logics for Behavioural Metrics via Fuzzy Lax Extensions
Behavioural distances provide a fine-grained measure of equivalence in systems involving quantitative data, such as probabilistic, fuzzy, or metric systems. Like in the classical setting of crisp bisimulation-type equivalences, the wide variation found in system types creates a need for generic methods that apply to many system types at once. Approaches of this kind are emerging within the paradigm of universal coalgebra, based either on lifting pseudometrics along set functors or on lifting general real-valued (fuzzy) relations along functors by means of fuzzy lax extensions. An immediate benefit of the latter is that they allow bounding behavioural distance by means of fuzzy bisimulations that need not themselves be (pseudo-)metrics, in analogy to classical bisimulations (which need not be equivalence relations). The known instances of generic pseudometric liftings, specifically the generic Kantorovich and Wasserstein liftings, both can be extended to yield fuzzy lax extensions, using the fact that both are effectively given by a choice of quantitative modalities. Our central result then shows that in fact all fuzzy lax extensions are Kantorovich extensions for a suitable set of quantitative modalities, the so-called Moss modalities. For non-expansive fuzzy lax extensions, this allows for the extraction of quantitative modal logics that characterize behavioural distance, i.e. satisfy a quantitative version of the Hennessy-Milner theorem; equivalently, we obtain expressiveness of a quantitative version of Moss\u27 coalgebraic logic
Coalgebraic Fuzzy geometric logic
The paper aims to develop a framework for coalgebraic fuzzy geometric logic
by adding modalities to the language of fuzzy geometric logic. Using the
methods of coalgebra, the modal operators are introduced in the language of
fuzzy geometric logic. To define the modal operators, we introduce a notion of
fuzzy-open predicate lifting. Based on coalgebras for an endofunctor on the
category of fuzzy topological spaces and fuzzy continuous
maps, we build models for the coalgebraic fuzzy geometric logic. Bisimulations
for the defined models are discussed in this work
Bisimilarity and refinement for hybrid(ised) logics
The complexity of modern software systems entails the need for reconfiguration mechanisms governing the dynamic evolution of their execution configurations in response to both external stimulus or internal performance measures. Formally, such systems may be represented by transition systems whose nodes correspond to the different configurations they may assume. Therefore, each node is endowed with, for example, an algebra, or a first-order structure, to precisely characterise the semantics of the services provided in the corresponding configuration.
Hybrid logics, which add to the modal description of transition structures the ability to refer to specific states, offer a generic framework to approach the specification and design of this sort of systems. Therefore, the quest for suitable notions of equivalence and refinement between models of hybrid logic specifications becomes fundamental to any design discipline adopting this perspective. This paper contributes to this effort from a distinctive point of view: instead of focussing on a specific hybrid logic, the paper introduces notions of bisimilarity and refinement for hybridised logics, i.e. standard specification logics (e.g. propositional, equational, fuzzy, etc) to which modal and hybrid features were added in a systematic way.FC
Characteristic Logics for Behavioural Hemimetrics via Fuzzy Lax Extensions
In systems involving quantitative data, such as probabilistic, fuzzy, or
metric systems, behavioural distances provide a more fine-grained comparison of
states than two-valued notions of behavioural equivalence or behaviour
inclusion. Like in the two-valued case, the wide variation found in system
types creates a need for generic methods that apply to many system types at
once. Approaches of this kind are emerging within the paradigm of universal
coalgebra, based either on lifting pseudometrics along set functors or on
lifting general real-valued (fuzzy) relations along functors by means of fuzzy
lax extensions. An immediate benefit of the latter is that they allow bounding
behavioural distance by means of fuzzy (bi-)simulations that need not
themselves be hemi- or pseudometrics; this is analogous to classical
simulations and bisimulations, which need not be preorders or equivalence
relations, respectively. The known generic pseudometric liftings, specifically
the generic Kantorovich and Wasserstein liftings, both can be extended to yield
fuzzy lax extensions, using the fact that both are effectively given by a
choice of quantitative modalities. Our central result then shows that in fact
all fuzzy lax extensions are Kantorovich extensions for a suitable set of
quantitative modalities, the so-called Moss modalities. For nonexpansive fuzzy
lax extensions, this allows for the extraction of quantitative modal logics
that characterize behavioural distance, i.e. satisfy a quantitative version of
the Hennessy-Milner theorem; equivalently, we obtain expressiveness of a
quantitative version of Moss' coalgebraic logic. All our results explicitly
hold also for asymmetric distances (hemimetrics), i.e. notions of quantitative
simulation
Refinement in hybridised institutions
Hybrid logics, which add to the modal description of transition structures the ability to refer to specific
states, offer a generic framework to approach the specification and design of reconfigurable systems, i.e., systems
with reconfiguration mechanisms governing the dynamic evolution of their execution configurations in response
to both external stimuli or internal performance measures. A formal representation of such systems is through
transition structures whose states correspond to the different configurations they may adopt. Therefore, each
node is endowed with, for example, an algebra, or a first-order structure, to precisely characterise the semantics
of the services provided in the corresponding configuration. This paper characterises equivalence and refinement
for these sorts of models in a way which is independent of (or parametric on) whatever logic (propositional,
equational, fuzzy, etc) is found appropriate to describe the local configurations. A Hennessy–Milner like theorem
is proved for hybridised logics.This work is funded by ERDF-European Regional Development Fund, through the COMPETE Programme, and by National Funds through FCT within project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-028923 and by project NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000060, co-financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The work had also partial financial assistance by the project PEst-OE/MAT/UI4106/2014 at CIDMA, FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037281 at INESC TEC and the Marie Curie project FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES (GetFun)