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This paper considers a finite sample perspective on the problem of identifying an LTI system from a finite set of possible systems using trajectory data. To this end, we use the maximum likelihood estimator to identify the true system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Nicolas Chatzikiriakos , Andrea Iannelli

Even with impressive advances in automated formal methods, certain problems in system verification and synthesis remain challenging. Examples include the verification of quantitative properties of software involving constraints on timing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Sanjit A. Seshia

We study the decidability and complexity of non-cooperative rational synthesis problem (abbreviated as NCRSP) for some classes of probabilistic strategies. We show that NCRSP for stationary strategies and Muller objectives is in 3-EXPTIME,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 So Koide , Yoshiaki Takata , Hiroyuki Seki

Among the biggest challenges in property-based testing (PBT) is the constrained random generation problem: given a predicate on program values, randomly sample from the set of all values satisfying that predicate, and only those values.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Harrison Goldstein , Hila Peleg , Cassia Torczon , Daniel Sainati , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Benjamin C. Pierce

The discovery of functional molecules is an expensive and time-consuming process, exemplified by the rising costs of small molecule therapeutic discovery. One class of techniques of growing interest for early-stage drug discovery is de novo…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-18 Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley

We address the safety verification and synthesis problems for real-time systems. We introduce real-time programs that are made of instructions that can perform assignments to discrete and real-valued variables. They are general enough to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Franck Cassez , Peter Gjøl Jensen , Kim Guldstrand Larsen

We study a generalisation of B\"uchi-Landweber games to the timed setting. The winning condition is specified by a non-deterministic timed automaton, and one of the players can elapse time. We perform a systematic study of synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sławomir Lasota , Mathieu Lehaut , Julie Parreaux , Radosław Piórkowski

Program synthesis is the task of constructing a program conforming to a given specification. We focus on deductive synthesis, and in particular on synthesis problems with specifications given as $\forall\exists$-formulas, expressing the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Márton Hajdu , Petra Hozzová , Laura Kovács , Andrei Voronkov , Eva Maria Wagner , Richard Steven Žilinčík

Reactive synthesis is a technology for the automatic construction of reactive systems from logical specifications. In these lecture notes, we study different algorithms for the reactive synthesis problem of linear-time temporal logic (LTL).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Felix Klein

Deadline misses are more common in real-world systems than one may expect. The weakly-hard task model has become a standard abstraction to describe and analyze how often these misses occur, and has been especially used in control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Marc Seidel , Martina Maggio , Frank Allgöwer

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

Formal methods apply algorithms based on mathematical principles to enhance the reliability of systems. It would only be natural to try to progress from verification, model checking or testing a system against its formal specification into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Gal Katz , Doron Peled

We present new algorithms to synthesize exact universal reversible gate library for various types of gates and costs. We use the powerful algebraic software GAP for implementation and examination of our algorithms and the reversible logic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Rasha Montaser , Ahmed Younes , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty

We present a new method for the automated synthesis of digital controllers with formal safety guarantees for systems with nonlinear dynamics, noisy output measurements, and stochastic disturbances. Our method derives digital controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Fedor Shmarov , Sadegh Soudjani , Nicola Paoletti , Ezio Bartocci , Shan Lin , Scott A. Smolka , Paolo Zuliani

Inspired by a concrete industry problem we consider the input synthesis problem for hybrid systems: given a hybrid system that is subject to input from outside (also called disturbance or noise), find an input sequence that steers the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Takumi Akazaki , Ichiro Hasuo , Kohei Suenaga

Reactive synthesis automatically derives a strategy that satisfies a given specification. However, requiring a strategy to meet the specification in every situation is, in many cases, too hard of a requirement. Particularly in compositional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Bernd Finkbeiner , Noemi Passing

We introduce a tableau decision method for deciding realizability of specifications expressed in a safety fragment of LTL that includes bounded future temporal operators. Tableau decision procedures for temporal and modal logics have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Montserrat Hermo , Paqui Lucio , César Sánchez

In the past few years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have exploded in usefulness and popularity for code generation tasks. However, LLMs still struggle with accuracy and are unsuitable for high-risk applications without additional oversight…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 William Murphy , Nikolaus Holzer , Feitong Qiao , Leyi Cui , Raven Rothkopf , Nathan Koenig , Mark Santolucito

A promising approach to defend against side channel attacks is to build programs that are leakage resilient, in a formal sense. One such formal notion of leakage resilience is the n-threshold-probing model proposed in the seminal work by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Arthur Blot , Masaki Yamamoto , Tachio Terauchi

We compute the integral of a function or the expectation of a random variable with minimal cost and use, for our new algorithm and for upper bounds of the complexity, i.i.d. samples. Under certain assumptions it is possible to select a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Robert J. Kunsch , Erich Novak , Daniel Rudolf