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In reactive controller synthesis, a number of implementations (controllers) are possible for a given specification because of the incomplete nature of specification. To choose the most desirable one from the various options, we need to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Amol Wakankar , Paritosh K. Pandya , Rajmohan Matteplackel

We propose a new method to design adaptation algorithms that guarantee a certain prescribed level of performance and are applicable to systems with nonconvex parameterization. The main idea behind the method is, given the desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Y. Tyukin , D. V. Prokhorov , Cees van Leeuwen

One of the problems of formal verification is that it is not functionally complete due the incompleteness of specifications. An implementation meeting an incomplete specification may still have a lot of bugs. In testing, this issue is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Eugene Goldberg

To warrant programmer productivity, type checker results should be correct and available quickly. Correctness can be provided when a type checker implementation corresponds to a declarative type system specification. Statix is a type system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Aron Zwaan

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data encoding that allows structured data to be used in a standardized and straightforward manner across systems. Schemas for JSON-formatted data can be constructed using the JSON Schema standard,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jack Stanek , Daniel Killough

Synthesizing programs from examples requires searching over a vast, combinatorial space of possible programs. In this search process, a key challenge is representing the behavior of a partially written program before it can be executed, to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Maxwell Nye , Yewen Pu , Matthew Bowers , Jacob Andreas , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

Early-stage specifications of safety-critical systems are typically expressed in natural language, making it difficult to derive formal properties suitable for verification and needed to guarantee safety. While recent Large Language Model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alberto Tagliaferro , Bruno Guindani , Livia Lestingi , Matteo Rossi

Automated testing plays a crucial role in ensuring software security. It heavily relies on formal specifications to validate the correctness of the system behavior. However, the main approach to defining these formal specifications is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Hui Li , Zhen Dong , Siao Wang , Hui Zhang , Liwei Shen , Xin Peng , Dongdong She

Sign Language (SL) linguistic is dependent on the expensive task of annotating. Some automation is already available for low-level information (eg. body part tracking) and the lexical level has shown significant progresses. The syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Rémi Dubot , Christophe Collet

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

Complex mechatronic systems are typically composed of interconnected modules, often developed by independent teams. This development process challenges the verification of system specifications before all modules are integrated. To address…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Lars A. L. Janssen , Rob H. B. Fey , Bart Besselink , Nathan van de Wouw

Creating datasets manually by human annotators is a laborious task that can lead to biased and inhomogeneous labels. We propose a flexible, semi-automatic framework for labeling data for relation extraction. Furthermore, we provide a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jeremias Bohn , Jannik Fischbach , Martin Schmitt , Hinrich Schütze , Andreas Vogelsang

Software requirements specification is undoubtedly critical for the whole software life-cycle. Nowadays, writing software requirements specifications primarily depends on human work. Although massive studies have been proposed to fasten the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ziyan Zhao , Li Zhang , Xiaoyun Gao , Xiaoli Lian , Heyang Lv , Lin Shi

Boolean functional synthesis is the process of constructing a Boolean function from a Boolean specification that relates input and output variables. Despite significant recent developments in synthesis algorithms, Boolean functional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Supratik Chakraborty , Dror Fried , Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi

Reactive synthesis is concerned with finding a correct-by-construction controller from formal specifications, typically expressed in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). The specifications describe assumptions about an environment and guarantees to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Davide G. Cavezza , Dalal Alrajeh , Andras Gyorgy

This paper presents an extension to the probabilistic programming language ProbRobScene, allowing users to automatically synthesize uniform experiment designs directly from environment specifications. We demonstrate its effectiveness on a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Craig Innes , Yordan Hristov , Georgios Kamaras , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Designing a static analysis is generally a substantial undertaking, requiring significant expertise in both program analysis and the domain of the program analysis, and significant development resources. As a result, most program analyses…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Colin S. Gordon

In this paper we evaluate the capabilities of LLM Agents in generating code for real-world problems. Specifically, we explore code synthesis for microservice-based applications, a widely used architectural pattern for building applications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Daniel M. Yellin

Timed regular expressions serve as a formalism for specifying real-time behaviors of Cyber-Physical Systems. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of timed regular expressions, focusing on generating a timed regular expression consistent…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ziran Wang , Jie An , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang , Zhenya Zhang

Modern software relies on libraries and uses them via application programming interfaces (APIs). Correct API usage as well as many software engineering tasks are enabled when APIs have formal specifications. In this work, we analyze the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-17 John L. Singleton , Gary T. Leavens , Hridesh Rajan , David R. Cok