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Software testing plays a critical role in ensuring that systems behave as intended. However, existing automated testing approaches struggle to match the capabilities of human engineers due to key limitations such as test locality, lack of…

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Process mining extracts valuable insights from event data to help organizations improve their business processes, which is essential for their growth and success. By leveraging process mining techniques, organizations gain a comprehensive…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Nesma M. Zaki , Iman M. A. Helal , Ehab E. Hassanein , Ahmed Awad

While reachability analysis is one of the most promising approaches for formal verification of dynamic systems, a major disadvantage preventing a more widespread application is the requirement to manually tune algorithm parameters such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak

Motivated by the challenge presented by non-Markovian objectives in reinforcement learning (RL), we present a novel framework to track and represent the progress of autonomous agents through complex, multi-stage tasks. Given a specification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Noel Brindise , Cedric Langbort , Melkior Ornik

Hyperproperties express the relationship between multiple executions of a system. This is needed in many AI-related fields, such as knowledge representation and planning, to capture system properties related to knowledge, information flow,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Niklas Metzger

Fully automated verification of large-scale software and hardware systems is arguably the holy grail of formal methods. Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated their potential for enhancing the degree of automation in formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zhongyi Wang , Tengjie Lin , Mingshuai Chen , Haokun Li , Mingqi Yang , Xiao Yi , Shengchao Qin , Yixing Luo , Xiaofeng Li , Bin Gu , Liqiang Lu , Jianwei Yin

Live sequence charts (LSCs) have been proposed as an inter-object scenario-based specification and visual programming language for reactive systems. In this paper, we introduce a logic-based framework to check the consistency of an LSC…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-02-17 Hai-Feng Guo , Wen Zheng , Mahadevan Subramaniam

Online monitoring aims to evaluate or to predict, at runtime, whether or not the behaviors of a system satisfy some desired specification. It plays a key role in safety-critical cyber-physical systems. In this work, we propose a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Xinyi Yu , Weijie Dong , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

Runtime efficiency and termination are crucial properties in the studies of program verification. Instead of dealing with these issues in an ad hoc manner, it would be useful to develop a robust framework in which such properties are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Weijun Chen , Yuxi Fu , Huan Long

Research in robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), has relied on single formulas. However, as task complexity increases, LTL formulas become lengthy, making them difficult to interpret and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

Network configuration verification enables operators to ensure that the network will behave as intended, prior to deployment of their configurations. Although techniques ranging from graph algorithms to SMT solvers have been proposed,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Santhosh Prabhu , Kuan-Yen Chou , Ali Kheradmand , P. Brighten Godfrey , Matthew Caesar

Synthesizing a program that realizes a logical specification is a classical problem in computer science. We examine a particular type of program synthesis, where the objective is to synthesize a strategy that reacts to a potentially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Alberto Camacho , Sheila A. McIlraith

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

A self-healing software system is an advanced computer program or system designed to detect, diagnose, and automatically recover from faults or errors without human intervention. These systems are typically employed in mission-critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zahra Yazdanparast

Runtime verification offers scalable solutions to improve the safety and reliability of systems. However, systems that require verification or monitoring by a third party to ensure compliance with a specification might contain sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mahyar Karimi , K. S. Thejaswini

This paper investigates the online monitoring problem for cyber-physical systems under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. The objective is to design an online monitor that evaluates system correctness at runtime based on partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Tao Han , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

In this paper, we introduce LLMCHECKER, a model-checking-based verification method to verify the probabilistic computation tree logic (PCTL) properties of an LLM text generation process. We empirically show that only a limited number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dennis Gross , Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb

We present Quickstrom, a property-based testing system for acceptance testing of interactive applications. Using Quickstrom, programmers can specify the behaviour of web applications as properties in our testing-oriented dialect of Linear…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Liam O'Connor , Oskar Wickström

Empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art natural-language (NL) to temporal-logic (TL) translation systems reveals near-perfect performance on existing benchmarks. However, current studies measure only the accuracy of the translation of NL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 William H English , Chase Walker , Dominic Simon , Sumit Kumar Jha , Rickard Ewetz

Service-based applications are often developed as compositions of partner services. A service integrator needs precise methods to specify the quality attributes expected by each partner service, as well as effective techniques to verify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic , Pierluigi San Pietro