CTL* - History

History

LTL has been proposed for the verification of computer programs first by Amir Pnueli in 1977. Four years later in 1981 E. M. Clarke and E. A. Emerson invented CTL and CTL model checking. CTL* was defined by E. A. Emerson and Joseph Y. Halpern in 1986.

Interestingly, CTL and LTL have been developed independently before CTL*. Both sublogics have become very important in the model checking community, while CTL* is not yet of practical importance. This is surprising because the computational complexity of model checking in CTL* is not worse than that of LTL: they both lie in PSPACE.

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