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We present a verification methodology for analysing the decision-making component in agent-based hybrid systems. Traditionally hybrid automata have been used to both implement and verify such systems, but hybrid automata based modelling,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Louise A. Dennis , Michael Fisher , Nicholas K. Lincoln , Alexei Lisitsa , Sandor M. Veres

Automated Vehicles (AVs) are rapidly maturing in the transportation domain. However, the complexity of the AV design problem is such that no single technique is sufficient to provide adequate validation of key properties such as safety,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Maike Schwammberger , Christopher Harper , Gleifer Vaz Alves , Greg Chance , Tony Pipe , Kerstin Eder

Verification of numerical accuracy properties in modern software remains an important and challenging task. This paper describes an original framework combining different solutions for numerical accuracy. First, we extend an existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Maxime Jacquemin , Fonenantsoa Maurica , Nikolai Kosmatov , Julien Signoles , Franck Védrine

The software development for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), e.g., autonomous vehicles, requires both functional and non-functional quality assurance to guarantee that the CPS operates safely and effectively. EAST-ADL is a domain specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Eun-Young Kang , Dongrui Mu , Li Huang , Qianqing Lan

Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) require diverse and safety-critical traffic scenarios for effective training and testing, but the existing data generation methods struggle to provide flexibility and scalability. We propose LASER, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Hao Gao , Jingyue Wang , Wenyang Fang , Jingwei Xu , Yunpeng Huang , Taolue Chen , Xiaoxing Ma

We introduce a new two-sided type system for verifying the correctness and incorrectness of functional programs with atoms and pattern matching. A key idea in the work is that types should range over sets of normal forms, rather than sets…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Celia Mengyue Li , Sophie Pull , Steven Ramsay

Research into safety in autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles has, so far, largely been focused on testing and validation through simulation. Due to the fact that failure of these autonomous systems is potentially life-endangering, formal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Francisco Eiras , Morteza Lahijanian , Marta Kwiatkowska

We present a novel and well automatable approach to formal verification of C programs with underspecified semantics, i.e., a language semantics that leaves open the order of certain evaluations. First, we reduce this problem to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Eduard Kamburjan , Nathan Wasser

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have substantially enhanced automated code generation across a wide range of programming languages. Nonetheless, verifying the correctness and executability of LLM-generated code remains a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xinkui Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Zhengyi Zhou , Yueshen Xu

We present Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Code Synthesis (ARCS), a system that improves LLM-based code generation without fine-tuning. ARCS operates through a budgeted synthesize-execute-repair loop over a frozen model: it retrieves relevant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Manish Bhattarai , Miguel Cordova , Minh Vu , Javier Santos , Ismael Boureima , Dan O'Malley

We propose a novel type system for verifying that programs correctly implement constant-resource behavior. Our type system extends recent work on automatic amortized resource analysis (AARA), a set of techniques that automatically derive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Van Chan Ngo , Mario Dehesa-Azuara , Matthew Fredrikson , Jan Hoffmann

Security verification of communication protocols in industrial and safety-critical systems is challenging because implementations are often proprietary, accessible only as black boxes, and too complex for manual modeling. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Stefan Marksteiner , Mikael Sjödin , Marjan Sirjani

We consider the problem of specifying and proving the security of non-trivial, concurrent programs that intentionally leak information. We present a method that decomposes the problem into (a) proving that the program only leaks information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Toby Murray , Mukesh Tiwari , Gidon Ernst , David A. Naumann

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked interest in their application to Static Application Security Testing (SAST), primarily due to their superior contextual reasoning capabilities compared to traditional symbolic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zi Liang , Qipeng Xie , Jun He , Bohuan Xue , Weizheng Wang , Yuandao Cai , Fei Luo , Boxian Zhang , Haibo Hu , Kaishun Wu

We present two novel symbolic algorithms for model checking the Alternating-time Temporal Logic ATL*, over both the infinite-trace and the finite-trace semantics. In particular, for infinite traces we design a novel symbolic reduction to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sofia Garcia de Blas Garcia-Alcalde , Francesco Belardinelli

State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs have progressed from struggling on proof-based Olympiad problems to solving most of the IMO 2025 problems, with leading systems reportedly handling 5 of 6 problems. Given this progress, we assess how well these…

LLM-based code interpreter agents are increasingly deployed in critical workflows, yet their robustness against risks introduced by their code execution capabilities remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks are limited to static datasets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Lei Ba , Qinbin Li , Songze Li

We introduce LLM-ARC, a neuro-symbolic framework designed to enhance the logical reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), by combining them with an Automated Reasoning Critic (ARC). LLM-ARC employs an Actor-Critic method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Aditya Kalyanpur , Kailash Karthik Saravanakumar , Victor Barres , Jennifer Chu-Carroll , David Melville , David Ferrucci

Large language models still struggle with contest-level programming, while many agentic remedies rely on massive inference-time sampling or expensive multi-stage post-training. We study when execution feedback reliably helps an LLM CP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Peisong Wang , Bowen Liu , Zehua Li , Yuyao Wang , Zhiwei Ma , Yuhan Li , Jia Li

Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) use complex decision-making (DM) models with multimodal sensory inputs, making rigorous validation and verification (V&V) essential for safety and reliability. These models pose challenges in diagnosing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Halit Eris , Stefan Wagner