RT Conference Proceedings T1 Logical characterisations and compositionality of input-output conformance simulation A1 Aceto, Luca A1 Fábregas Alfaro, Ignacio A1 Gregorio Rodríguez, Carlos A1 Ingólfsdóttir, Anna A2 Steffen, Bernhard A2 Baier, Christel A2 van den Brand, Mark A2 Eder, Johann A2 Hinchey, Mike A2 Margaria, Tiziana AB Input-output conformance simulation (iocos) has been pro- posed by Gregorio-Rodr ́ıguez, Llana and Mart ́ınez-Torres as a simulation- based behavioural preorder underlying model-based testing. This relation is inspired by Tretman’s classic ioco relation, but has better worst-case complexity than ioco and supports stepwise refinement. The goal of this paper is to develop the theory of iocos by studying logical characteri- sations of this relation and its compositionality. More specifically, this article presents characterisations of iocos in terms of modal logics and compares them with an existing logical characterisation for ioco pro- posed by Beohar and Mousavi. A precongruence rule format for iocos and a rule format ensuring that operations take quiescence properly into account are also given. Both rule formats are based on the GSOS format by Bloom, Istrail and Meyer. SN 978-3-319-51963-0 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98297 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98297 LA eng NO Aceto, L., Fábregas, I., Gregorio-Rodríguez, C., Ingólfsdóttir, A. (2017). Logical Characterisations and Compositionality of Input-Output Conformance Simulation. In: Steffen, B., Baier, C., van den Brand, M., Eder, J., Hinchey, M., Margaria, T. (eds) SOFSEM 2017: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10139. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51963-0_4 NO Icelandic Research Fund NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) DS Docta Complutense RD 22 ene 2026