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In this article we study linear temporal logics with team semantics (TeamLTL) that are novel logics for defining hyperproperties. We define Kamp-type translations of these logics into fragments of first-order team logic and second-order…

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Agentic systems have transformed how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be leveraged to create autonomous systems with goal-directed behaviors, consisting of multi-step planning and the ability to interact with different environments. These…

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Strategy Logic (SL, for short) has been introduced by Mogavero, Murano, and Vardi as a useful formalism for reasoning explicitly about strategies, as first-order objects, in multi-agent concurrent games. This logic turns out to be very…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Fabio Mogavero , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Moshe Y. Vardi

Stochastic multi-agent systems are a central modeling framework for autonomous controllers, communication protocols, and cyber-physical infrastructures. In many such systems, however, transition probabilities are only estimated from data…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Raphaël Berthon , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Munyque Mittelmann , Aniello Murano

Multi-agent coordination dilemmas expose a fundamental tension between individual optimization and collective welfare, yet characterizing such coordination requires metrics sensitive to temporal structure and collective dynamics. As a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nikolaos Al. Papadopoulos , Konstantinos Psannis

Information about the powers and abilities of acting entities is used to coordinate their actions in societies, either physical or digital. Yet, the commonsensical meaning of an acting entity being deemed able to do something is still…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nicolas Troquard

We develop a modeling technique based on interpreted systems in order to verify temporal-epistemic properties over access control policies. This approach enables us to detect information flow vulnerabilities in dynamic policies by verifying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Masoud Koleini , Eike Ritter , Mark Ryan

This paper presents a secure-by-construction planning and control framework for multi-agent systems subject to linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. The framework protects sensitive information from a passive intruder with partial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Georgios Mitsos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Siyuan Liu

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is used in system verification to write formal specifications for reactive systems. However, some relevant properties, e.g. non-inference in information flow security, cannot be expressed in LTL. A class of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Juha Kontinen , Max Sandström , Jonni Virtema

Alternating timed automata (ATA) are an extension of timed automata, that are closed under complementation and hence amenable to logic-to-automata translations. Several timed logics, including Metric Temporal Logic (MTL), can be converted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Patricia Bouyer , B Srivathsan , Vaishnavi Vishwanath

Real-time cybersecurity and privacy applications require reliable verification methods and system design tools to ensure their correctness. Many of these reactive real-time applications embedded in various infrastructures, such as airports,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-08 David Cortes , Jean Leneutre , Vadim Malvone , James Ortiz

This paper considers the problem of controller synthesis of signal temporal logic (STL) specifications for large-scale multi-agent systems, where the agents are dynamically coupled and subject to collaborative tasks. A compositional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Siyuan Liu , Adnane Saoud , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Max-Plus Linear (MPL) systems are an algebraic formalism with practical applications in transportation networks, manufacturing and biological systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatically analyzing the properties of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Muhammad Syifa'ul Mufid , Andrea Micheli , Alessandro Abate , Alessandro Cimatti

Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation formalisms mainly characterised by constructors to build complex concepts and roles from atomic ones. Expressive role constructors are important in many applications, but can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Horrocks , Ulrike Sattler , Stephan Tobies

Timed Automata (TA) is de facto a standard modelling formalism to represent systems when the interest is the analysis of their behaviour as time progresses. This modelling formalism is mostly used for checking whether the behaviours of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Claudio Menghi , Marcello Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

We define PSTCTL, a probabilistic variant of Strategic Timed CTL (STCTL), interpreted over stochastic multi-agent systems with continuous time and asynchronous execution semantics. STCTL extends TCTL with strategic operators in the style of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Wojciech Jamroga , Marta Kwiatkowska , Wojciech Penczek , Laure Petrucci , Teofil Sidoruk

The traditional ML development methodology does not enable a large number of contributors, each with distinct objectives, to work collectively on the creation and extension of a shared intelligent system. Enabling such a collaborative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Andrea Gesmundo

In this paper, we present a complete mental temporal logic, called BPICTL, which generalizes CTL by introducing mental modalities. A sound and complete inference system of BPICTL is given. We prove the finite model property of BPICTL.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zining Cao

This paper presents a fully automated procedure for controller synthesis for multi-agent systems under coupling constraints. Each agent is modeled with dynamics consisting of two terms: the first one models the coupling constraints and the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Alexandros Nikou , Dimitris Boskos , Jana Tumova , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Module checking has been introduced in late 1990s to verify open systems, i.e., systems whose behavior depends on the continuous interaction with the environment. Classically, module checking has been investigated with respect to…

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