Generic Model Checking forModal Fixpoint Logics inCOOL-MC
Paper in proceeding, 2024

We report on COOL-MC, a model checking tool for fixpoint logics that is parametric in the branching type of models (non-deterministic, game-based, probabilistic etc.) and in the next-step modalities used in formulae. The tool implements generic model checking algorithms developed in coalgebraic logic that are easily adapted to concrete instance logics. Apart from the standard modal μ -calculus, COOL-MC currently supports alternating-time, graded, probabilistic and monotone variants of the μ -calculus, but is also effortlessly extensible with new instance logics. The model checking process is realized by polynomial reductions to parity game solving, or, alternatively, by a local model checking algorithm that directly computes the extensions of formulae in a lazy fashion, thereby potentially avoiding the construction of the full parity game. We evaluate COOL-MC on informative benchmark sets.

Author

Daniel Hausmann

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Formal methods

Merlin Humml

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Simon Prucker

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Lutz Schröder

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Aaron Strahlberger

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 14499 LNCS 171-185

25th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2024 was co-located with 51st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, POPL 2024
London, United Kingdom,

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Computer Sciences

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-50524-9_8

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11/25/2025