Monitoring Extended Hypernode Logic

Marek Chalupa, Thomas A. Henzinger, Ana Oliveira da Costa

Abstract: Hypernode logic can reason about the prefix relation on stutter-reduced finite traces through the stutter-reduced prefix predicate. We increase the expressiveness of hypernode logic in two ways. First, we split the stutter-reduced prefix predicate into an explicit stutter-reduction operator and the classical prefix predicate on words. This change gives hypernode logic the ability to combine synchronous and asynchronous reasoning by explicitly stating which parts of traces can stutter. Second, we allow the use of regular expressions in formulas to reason about the structure of traces. This change enables hypernode logic to describe a mixture of trace properties and hyperproperties.