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It is widely accepted that every system should be robust in that ``small'' violations of environment assumptions should lead to ``small'' violations of system guarantees, but it is less clear how to make this intuition mathematically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Satya Prakash Nayak , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy , Martin Zimmermann

In logic-based knowledge representation, query answering has essentially replaced mere satisfiability checking as the inferencing problem of primary interest. For knowledge bases in the basic description logic ALC, the computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Sebastian Rudolph

We present team semantics for two of the most important linear and branching time specification languages, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and Computation Tree Logic (CTL). With team semantics, LTL is able to express hyperproperties, which have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema , Martin Zimmermann

We introduce two variants of computation tree logic CTL based on team semantics: an asynchronous one and a synchronous one. For both variants we investigate the computational complexity of the satisfiability as well as the model checking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema

Temporal logic is a very powerful formalism deeply investigated and used in formal system design and verification. Its application usually reduces to solving specific decision problems such as model checking and satisfiability. In these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Gaëlle Fontaine , Fabio Mogavero , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Loredana Sorrentino

We revisit a fundamental result in real-time verification, namely that the binary reachability relation between configurations of a given timed automaton is definable in linear arithmetic over the integers and reals. In this paper we give a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Karin Quaas , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is the de-facto standard temporal logic for system specification, whose foundational properties have been studied for over five decades. Safety and cosafety properties define notable fragments of LTL, where a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Alessandro Artale , Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Andrea Mazzullo , Angelo Montanari

We consider the satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic over finite unranked trees. We work with signatures consisting of some unary predicates and the binary navigational predicates child, right sibling,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Witold Charatonik , Emanuel Kieroński , Filip Mazowiecki

We consider the satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of the first-order logic extended with modulo counting quantifiers and interpreted over finite words or trees. We prove a small-model property of this logic, which gives a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Witold Charatonik

We consider an extension of linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with both local and remote data constraints interpreted over a concrete domain. This extension is a natural extension of constraint LTL and the Temporal Logic of Repeating Values,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Ashwin Bhaskar

Hybrid logic with binders is an expressive specification language. Its satisfiability problem is undecidable in general. If frames are restricted to N or general linear orders, then satisfiability is known to be decidable, but of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Stefan Göller , Arne Meier , Martin Mundhenk , Thomas Schneider , Michael Thomas , Felix Weiss

We introduce a generic extension of the popular branching-time logic CTL which refines the temporal until and release operators with formal languages. For instance, a language may determine the moments along a path that an until property…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Roland Axelsson , Matthew Hague , Stephan Kreutzer , Martin Lange , Markus Latte

LTL synthesis -- the construction of a function to satisfy a logical specification formulated in Linear Temporal Logic -- is a 2EXPTIME-complete problem with relevant applications in controller synthesis and a myriad of artificial…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jorge A. Baier , Alberto Camacho , Christian Muise , Sheila A. McIlraith

We show that satisfiability for CTL* with equality-, order-, and modulo-constraints over Z is decidable. Previously, decidability was only known for certain fragments of CTL*, e.g., the existential and positive fragments and EF.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Claudia Carapelle , Alexander Kartzow , Markus Lohrey

We study the program complexity of datalog on both finite and infinite linear orders. Our main result states that on all linear orders with at least two elements, the nonemptiness problem for datalog is EXPTIME-complete. While containment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Martin Grohe , Goetz Schwandtner

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a prominent specification formalism for real-time systems. In this paper, we show that the satisfiability problem for MTL over finite timed words is decidable, with non-primitive recursive complexity. We also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joel Ouaknine , James Worrell

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) and Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL) are prominent real-time extensions of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). In general, the satisfiability checking problem for these extensions is undecidable when both the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Khushraj Madnani , Manuel Mazo , Paritosh K. Pandya

The finite satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic interpreted over trees was recently shown to be ExpSpace-complete. We consider two extensions of this logic. We show that adding either additional binary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Witold Charatonik , Emanuel Kieroński

We establish decidability for the infinitely many axiomatic extensions of the commutative Full Lambek logic with weakening FLew (i.e. IMALLW) that have a cut-free hypersequent proof calculus (specifically: every analytic structural rule…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-21 A. R. Balasubramanian , Timo Lang , Revantha Ramanayake

Possibilistic computation tree Logic (PoCTL) is one kind of branching temporal logic combined with uncertain information in possibility theory, which was introduced in order to cope with the systematic verification on systems with uncertain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yongming Li