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Satisfiability checking for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a fundamental step in checking for possible errors in LTL assertions. Extant LTL satisfiability checkers use a variety of different search procedures. With the sole exception of LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Jianwen Li , Geguang Pu , Lijun Zhang , Moshe Y. Vardi , Jifeng He

Model checking allows one to automatically verify a specification of the expected properties of a system against a formal model of its behaviour (generally, a Kripke structure). Point-based temporal logics, such as LTL, CTL, and CTL*, that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Alberto Molinari , Angelo Montanari , Adriano Peron

Runtime verification is the process of verifying critical behavioral properties in big complex systems, where formal verification is not possible due to state space explosion. There have been several attempts to design efficient algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 M. Ali Dorosty , Fathiyeh Faghih , Ehsan Khamespanah

Spatial aspects of computation are becoming increasingly relevant in Computer Science, especially in the field of collective adaptive systems and when dealing with systems distributed in physical space. Traditional formal verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Vincenzo Ciancia , Diego Latella , Michele Loreti , Mieke Massink

We present a logical framework for the verification of relational properties in imperative programs. Our work is motivated by relational properties which come from security applications and often require reasoning about formulas with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Gilles Barthe , Renate Eilers , Pamina Georgiou , Bernhard Gleiss , Laura Kovacs , Matteo Maffei

We study the verification problem of stochastic systems under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. We propose a novel approach that enables the verification of the probabilistic satisfaction of STL specifications for nonlinear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Liqian Ma , Zishun Liu , Hongzhe Yu , Yongxin Chen

Verifying hyperproperties at runtime is a challenging problem as hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple computation traces with each other. It is necessary to store previously seen traces,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Christopher Hahn , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

Autonomous systems often have complex and possibly unknown dynamics due to, e.g., black-box components. This leads to unpredictable behaviors and makes control design with performance guarantees a major challenge. This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 John Jackson , Luca Laurenti , Eric Frew , Morteza Lahijanian

In this paper we introduce Behavioral QLTL, which is a ``behavioral'' variant of linear-time temporal logic on infinite traces with second-order quantifiers. Behavioral QLTL is characterized by the fact that the functions that assign the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Giuseppe Perelli

Offline policy evaluation is a fundamental statistical problem in reinforcement learning that involves estimating the value function of some decision-making policy given data collected by a potentially different policy. In order to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Juan C. Perdomo , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Peter Bartlett , Sham Kakade

Traditional conformance checking tasks assume that event data provide a faithful and complete representation of the actual process executions. This assumption has been recently questioned: more and more often events are not traced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ivan Donadello , Paolo Felli , Craig Innes , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Marco Montali

Automatic software verification is a valuable means for software quality assurance. However, automatic verification and in particular software model checking can be time-consuming, which hinders their practical applicability e.g., the use…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Max Barth , Marie-Christine Jakobs

Model-checking techniques have been extended to analyze quantum programs and communication protocols represented as quantum Markov chains, an extension of classical Markov chains. To specify qualitative temporal properties, a subspace-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Ji Guan , Yuan Feng , Andrea Turrini , Mingsheng Ying

Hyperproperties are properties of computational systems that require more than one trace to evaluate, e.g., many information-flow security and concurrency requirements. Where a trace property defines a set of traces, a hyperproperty defines…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jan Baumeister , Norine Coenen , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner , Cesar Sanchez

This paper addresses the online monitoring of distributed component-based systems with multi-party interactions against user-provided properties expressed in linear-temporal logic and referring to global states. We consider intrinsically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hosein Nazarpour , Yliès Falcone , Mohamad Jaber , Saddek Bensalem , Marius Bozga

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

DatalogMTL is an extension of Datalog with metric temporal operators that has found applications in temporal ontology-based data access and query answering, as well as in stream reasoning. Practical algorithms for DatalogMTL are reliant on…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Dingmin Wang , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga , Bernardo Cuenca Grau

Web-TLR is a Web verification engine that is based on the well-established Rewriting Logic--Maude/LTLR tandem for Web system specification and model-checking. In Web-TLR, Web applications are expressed as rewrite theories that can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-12 María Alpuente , Demis Ballis , Javier Espert , Francisco Frechina , Daniel Romero

Search-based software testing (SBST) of Simulink models helps find scenarios that demonstrate that the system can reach a state that violates one of its requirements. However, many SBST techniques for Simulink models rely on requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Federico Formica , Chris George , Shayda Rahmatyan , Vera Pantelic , Mark Lawford , Angelo Gargantini , Claudio Menghi

In spatially located, large scale systems, time and space dynamics interact and drives the behaviour. Examples of such systems can be found in many smart city applications and Cyber-Physical Systems. In this paper we present the Signal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 L. Nenzi , L. Bortolussi , V. Ciancia , M. Loreti , M. Massink