Temporal Logic for Social Networks

Abstract

This paper introduces a logic with a class of social network models that is based on standard Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), leveraging the power of existing model checkers for the analysis of social networks. We provide a short literature overview, and then define our logic and its axiomatization, present some simple motivational examples of both models and formulas, and show its soundness and completeness via a translation into propositional formulas. Lastly, we briefly discuss model checking and time complexity analysis.