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The expressive power of interval temporal logics (ITLs) makes them one of the most natural choices in a number of application domains, ranging from the specification and verification of complex reactive systems to automated planning.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Laura Bozzelli , Alberto Molinari , Angelo Montanari , Adriano Peron , Pietro Sala

Standpoint linear temporal logic SLTL is a recent formalism able to model possibly conflicting commitments made by distinct agents, taking into account aspects of temporal reasoning. In this paper, we analyse the computational properties of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Stéphane Demri , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga

Model checking and automated theorem proving are two pillars of formal methods. This paper investigates model checking from an automated theorem proving perspective, aiming at combining the expressiveness of automated theorem proving and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Ying Jiang , Jian Liu , Gilles Dowek , Kailiang Ji

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

We present a novel asynchronous hyper linear time temporal logic named LPrL (Linear Time Predicate Logic) and establish its basic theory. LPrL is a natural first order extension of LTL (Linear time temporal logic), in which the predicates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Parasara Sridhar Duggirala , P. S. Thiagarajan

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a specification language for finite sequences (called traces) widely used in program verification, motion planning in robotics, process mining, and many other areas. We consider the problem of learning LTL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Daniel Neider

We consider here Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas interpreted over \emph{finite} traces. We denote this logic by LTLf. The existing approach for LTLf satisfiability checking is based on a reduction to standard LTL satisfiability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Jianwen Li , Lijun Zhang , Geguang Pu , Moshe Y. Vardi , Jifeng He

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a widely recognized formal specification language to express rigorous temporal requirements on mixed analog signals produced by cyber-physical systems (CPS). A relevant problem in CPS design is how to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Beatrice Melani , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

Timed automata (TAs) are a common formalism for modeling timed systems. Bounded model checking (BMC) is a verification method that searches for runs violating a property using a SAT or SMT solver. MITL is a real-time extension of the linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Roland Kindermann , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

The aim of this study is to understand the inherent expressive power of CTL operators. We investigate the complexity of model checking for all CTL fragments with one CTL operator and arbitrary Boolean operators. This gives us a fingerprint…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Martin Mundhenk

The model-checking problem for hybrid systems is a well known challenge in the scientific community. Most of the existing approaches and tools are limited to safety properties only, or operates by transforming the hybrid system to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Davide Bresolin

The satisfiability problem of the branching time logic CTL is studied in terms of computational complexity. Tight upper and lower bounds are provided for each temporal operator fragment. In parallel, the minimal model size is studied with a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Martin Lück

We investigate the complexity of LTL learning, which consists in deciding given a finite set of positive ultimately periodic words, a finite set of negative ultimately periodic words, and a bound B given in unary, if there is an LTL-formula…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

We classify the complexity of the LTL satisfiability and model checking problems for several standard parameterisations. The investigated parameters are temporal depth, number of propositional variables and formula treewidth, resp.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Martin Lück , Arne Meier

We propose a formal proof of the undecidability of the model checking problem for alternating- time temporal logic under imperfect information and perfect recall semantics. This problem was announced to be undecidable according to a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Catalin Dima , Ferucio Laurentiu Tiplea

We develop model checking algorithms for Temporal Stream Logic (TSL) and Hyper Temporal Stream Logic (HyperTSL) modulo theories. TSL extends Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) with memory cells, functions and predicates, making it a convenient and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Jana Hofmann , Janine Lohse

The high availability and scalability of weakly-consistent systems attracts system designers. Yet, writing correct application code for this type of systems is difficult; even how to specify the intended behavior of such systems is still an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Mathias Weber , Annette Bieniusa , Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter

Since the topic emerged several years ago, work on regular model checking has mostly been devoted to the verification of state reachability and safety properties. Though it was known that linear temporal properties could also be checked…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Ahmed Bouajjani , Axel Legay , Pierre Wolper

Quantified CTL (QCTL) extends the temporal logic CTL with quantifications over atomic propositions. This extension is known to be very expressive: QCTL allows us to express complex properties over Kripke structures (it is as expressive as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-08 A. Hossain , F. Laroussinie

The paper studies the expressivity, relative succinctness and complexity of satisfiability for hybrid extensions of the branching-time logics CTL and CTL+ by variables. Previous complexity results show that only fragments with one variable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Ahmet Kara , Martin Lange , Thomas Schwentick , Volker Weber