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There has been substantial progress in the inference of formal behavioural specifications from sample trajectories, for example, using Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). However, these techniques cannot handle specifications that correctly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Rajarshi Roy , Yash Pote , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

Runtime monitoring is one of the central tasks in the area of operational decision support for business process management. In particular, it helps process executors to check on-the-fly whether a running process instance satisfies business…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Riccardo De Masellis , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Marco Montali

We present TLLC which extends the Two-Level Linear dependent type theory (TLL) with session-based concurrency. Equipped with Martin-L\"{o}f style dependency, the session types of TLLC allow protocols to specify properties of communicated…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Qiancheng Fu , Hongwei Xi , Ankush Das

This paper studies Linear Temporal Logic over Finite Traces (LTLf) where proposition letters are replaced with first-order formulas interpreted over arbitrary theories, in the spirit of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. The resulting logic,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante

Logically constrained rewrite systems (LCTRSs) are a versatile and efficient rewriting formalism that can be used to model programs from various programming paradigms, as well as simplification systems in compilers and SMT solvers. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Sarah Winkler , Georg Moser

Our aim is to investigate ontology-based data access over temporal data with validity time and ontologies capable of temporal conceptual modelling. To this end, we design a temporal description logic, TQL, that extends the standard ontology…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Alessandro Artale , Roman Kontchakov , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

A key challenge in abstraction-based verification and control under complex specifications such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is that abstract models retain significantly less information than their original systems. This issue is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Clovis Eberhart

The problem of checking a logged event trace against a temporal logic specification arises in many practical cases. Unfortunately, known algorithms for an expressive logic like MTL (Metric Temporal Logic) do not scale with respect to two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Marcello M. Bersani , Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic , Pierluigi San Pietro

Uncertainty in Logic Programming has been investigated during the last decades, dealing with various extensions of the classical LP paradigm and different applications. Existing proposals rely on different approaches, such as clause…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-07-22 Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo , Carlos A. Romero-Díaz

We develop a method to control discrete-time systems with constant but initially unknown parameters from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. We introduce the notions of (non-deterministic) parametric and adaptive transition systems…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

In this paper, we consider networks of static sensors with integrated sensing and communication capabilities. The goal of the sensors is to propagate their collected information to every other agent in the network and possibly a human…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Hans Riess , Yiannis Kantaros , George Pappas , Robert Ghrist

In this paper we present an algorithm for performing runtime verification of a bounded temporal logic over timed runs. The algorithm consists of three elements. First, the bounded temporal formula to be verified is translated into a monadic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-06-01 Henrik Reif Andersen , Kaare J. Kristoffersen

Metric Temporal Logic $\mathsf{MTL}[\until_I,\since_I]$ is one of the most studied real time logics. It exhibits considerable diversity in expressiveness and decidability properties based on the permitted set of modalities and the nature of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Khushraj Madnani , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Paritosh Pandya

Constraint Programming (CP) has proved an effective paradigm to model and solve difficult combinatorial satisfaction and optimisation problems from disparate domains. Many such problems arising from the commercial world are permeated by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Neil Yorke-Smith , Carmen Gervet

The model checking problem for CTL is known to be P-complete (Clarke, Emerson, and Sistla (1986), see Schnoebelen (2002)). We consider fragments of CTL obtained by restricting the use of temporal modalities or the use of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Olaf Beyersdorff , Arne Meier , Martin Mundhenk , Thomas Schneider , Michael Thomas , Heribert Vollmer

Temporal logic inference is the process of extracting formal descriptions of system behaviors from data in the form of temporal logic formulas. The existing temporal logic inference methods mostly neglect uncertainties in the data, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Nasim Baharisangari , Jean-Raphaël Gaglione , Daniel Neider , Ufuk Topcu , Zhe Xu

In temporal logics, a central question is about the choice of modalities and their relative expressive power, in comparison to the complexity of decision problems such as satisfiability. In this tutorial, we will illustrate the study of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Kamal Lodaya , Paritosh K. Pandya

Constraint logic grammars provide a powerful formalism for expressing complex logical descriptions of natural language phenomena in exact terms. Describing some of these phenomena may, however, require some form of graded distinctions which…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Stefan Riezler

HyperLTL, the extension of Linear Temporal Logic by trace quantifiers, is a uniform framework for expressing information flow policies by relating multiple traces of a security-critical system. HyperLTL has been successfully applied to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Corto Mascle , Martin Zimmermann

Threat detection systems rely on rule-based logic to identify adversarial behaviors, yet the conformance of these rules to high-level threat models is rarely verified formally. We present a formal verification framework that models both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Dumitru-Bogdan Prelipcean , Cătălin Dima