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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dix · Department of Informatics, TUC <strong>Multiagent</strong> <strong>Systems</strong>, WS 06/07 519/731<br />

8. Action/Time as Modalities 1. Time: LTL, CTL<br />

Temporal logic was originally developed in order to<br />

represent tense in natural language.<br />

Within Computer Science, it has achieved a significant<br />

role in the formal specification and verification of<br />

concurrent and distributed systems.<br />

Much of this popularity has been achieved because a<br />

number of useful concepts can be formally, and concisely,<br />

specified using temporal logics, e.g.<br />

safety properties<br />

liveness properties<br />

fairness properties

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