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In this paper we extend the predicate logic introduced in [Beauquier et al. 2002] in order to deal with Semi-Markov Processes. We prove that with respect to qualitative probabilistic properties, model checking is decidable for this logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ruggero Lanotte , Daniele Beauquier

In this paper, we propose a novel formalism called Probabilistic Obstruction Temporal Logic (POTL), which extends Obstruction Logic (OL) by incorporating probabilistic elements. POTL provides a robust framework for reasoning about the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jean Leneutre , Vadim Malvone , James Ortiz

Timed automata and register automata are well-known models of computation over timed and data words respectively. The former has clocks that allow to test the lapse of time between two events, whilst the latter includes registers that can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Diego Figueira , Piotr Hofman , Sławomir Lasota

Developing autonomous decision-making requires safety assurance. Agent programming languages like AgentSpeak and Gwendolen provide tools for programming autonomous decision-making. However, despite numerous efforts to apply model checking…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yi Yang , Tom Holvoet

Rational verification is the problem of determining which temporal logic properties will hold in a multi-agent system, under the assumption that agents in the system act rationally, by choosing strategies that collectively form a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Julian Gutierrez , Lewis Hammond , Anthony W. Lin , Muhammad Najib , Michael Wooldridge

We investigate how various forms of bisimulation can be characterised using the technology of logical relations. The approach taken is that each form of bisimulation corresponds to an algebraic structure derived from a transition system,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Claudio Hermida , Uday Reddy , Edmund Robinson , Alessio Santamaria

We compare the two approaches to the empirical logic of automata. The first, called partition logic (logic of microstatements), refers to experiments on individual automata. The second one, the logic of simulation (logic of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Svozil , R. R. Zapatrin

We present a computational model for Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs). The predecessor of PEGs top-down parsing languages (TDPLs) were discovered by A. Birman and J. Ullman in the 1960-s, B. Ford showed in 2004 that both formalisms…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Alexander Rubtsov , Nikita Chudinov

Probabilistic programs encode stochastic models as ordinary-looking programs with primitives for sampling numbers from predefined distributions and conditioning. Their applications include, among many others, machine learning and modeling…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dominik Geißler , Tobias Winkler

We prove that endowing a real-time probabilistic or quantum computer with the ability of postselection increases its computational power. For this purpose, we provide a new model of finite automata with postselection, and compare it with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-04 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say

Probabilistic logical models are a core component of neurosymbolic AI and are important in their own right for tasks that require high explainability. Unlike neural networks, logical theories that underlie the model are often handcrafted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jonathan Feldstein , Dominic Phillips , Efthymia Tsamoura

Weak bisimilarity is a distribution-based equivalence notion for Markov automata. It has gained some popularity as the coarsest reasonable behavioural equivalence on Markov automata. This paper studies a strictly coarser notion: Late weak…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Christian Eisentraut , Jens Chr. Godskesen , Holger Hermanns , Lei Song , Lijun Zhang

Controller synthesis for hybrid systems that satisfy temporal specifications expressing various system properties is a challenging problem that has drawn the attention of many researchers. However, making the assumption that such temporal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Dorsa Sadigh , Ashish Kapoor

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic variants of the strategy logics ATL and ATL* under imperfect information. Specifically, we present novel decidability and complexity results when the model transitions are stochastic and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Francesco Belardinelli , Wojciech Jamroga , Munyque Mittelmann , Aniello Murano

In spite of the rapidly increasing number of applications of machine learning in various domains, a principled and systematic approach to the incorporation of domain knowledge in the engineering process is still lacking and ad hoc solutions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Mark-Oliver Stehr , Minyoung Kim , Carolyn L. Talcott , Merrill Knapp , Akos Vertes

Synthesizing a reactive system from specifications given in linear temporal logic (LTL) is a classical problem, finding its applications in safety-critical systems design. We present our tool SemML, which won this year's LTL realizability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jan Kretinsky , Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Prokop , Ashkan Zarkhah

Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Davis Liang , Yan Shu

The satisfiability problem for branching-time temporal logics like CTL*, CTL and CTL+ has important applications in program specification and verification. Their computational complexities are known: CTL* and CTL+ are complete for doubly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Oliver Friedmann , Martin Lange , Markus Latte

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in applications requiring factual accuracy, yet their outputs often contain hallucinated responses. While fact-checking can mitigate these errors, existing methods typically retrieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Haoran Wang , Maryam Khalid , Qiong Wu , Jian Gao , Cheng Cao

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