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We consider the problem of learning temporal logic formulas from examples of system behavior. Learning temporal properties has crystallized as an effective mean to explain complex temporal behaviors. Several efficient algorithms have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

We study the problem of policy optimization (PO) with linear temporal logic (LTL) constraints. The language of LTL allows flexible description of tasks that may be unnatural to encode as a scalar cost function. We consider LTL-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Cameron Voloshin , Hoang M. Le , Swarat Chaudhuri , Yisong Yue

Metric Temporal Logic, $\mtlfull$ is amongst 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 time interval…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Khushraj Madnani , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Paritosh K. Pandya

We consider an agent acting to fulfil tasks in a nondeterministic environment. When a strategy that fulfills the task regardless of how the environment acts does not exist, the agent should at least avoid adopting strategies that prevent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Gianmarco Parretti , Shufang Zhu

This paper investigates the problem of designing control policies that satisfy high-level specifications described by signal temporal logic (STL) in unknown, stochastic environments. While many existing works concentrate on optimizing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Siqi Wang , Shaoyuan Li , Li Yin , Xiang Yin

Synthesizing a reactive system from specifications given in linear temporal logic (LTL) is a classical problem, finding its applications in safety-critical systems design. These systems are typically represented using either Mealy machines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jan Křetínský , Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Prokop

Finite linear temporal logic ($\mathsf{LTL}_f$) is a powerful formal representation for modeling temporal sequences. We address the problem of learning a compact $\mathsf{LTL}_f$ formula from labeled traces of system behavior. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Homer Walke , Daniel Ritter , Carl Trimbach , Michael Littman

Temporal logics for the specification of information-flow properties are able to express relations between multiple executions of a system. The two most important such logics are HyperLTL and HyperCTL*, which generalise LTL and CTL* by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Marie Fortin , Louwe B. Kuijer , Patrick Totzke , Martin Zimmermann

This work proposes a novel approach for automatic verification and synthesis of infinite-state reactive programs with respect to ${CTL}^*$ specifications, based on translation to Existential Horn Clauses (EHCs). $CTL^*$ is a powerful…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mishel Carelli , Orna Grumberg

Temporal logic based synthesis approaches are often used to find trajectories that are correct-by-construction for tasks in systems with complex behavior. Some examples of such tasks include synchronization for multi-agent hybrid systems,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Sumanth Dathathri , Richard M. Murray

The synthesis problem asks to automatically generate, if it exists, an algorithm from a specification of correct input-output pairs. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of computable functions of infinite words, for a classical Turing…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Emmanuel Filiot , Sarah Winter

We study temporally extended goals expressed in Pure-Past LTL (PPLTL). PPLTL is particularly interesting for expressing goals since it allows to express sophisticated tasks as in the Formal Methods literature, while the worst-case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Marco Favorito , Francesco Fuggitti

The finite satisfiability problem for guarded fixpoint logic is decidable and complete for 2ExpTime (resp. ExpTime for formulas of bounded width).

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Vince Bárány , Mikołaj Bojańczyk

We introduce a new approach for the synthesis of Mealy machines from specifications in linear-time temporal logic (LTL), where the number of cycles in the state graph of the implementation is limited by a given bound. Bounding the number of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Bernd Finkbeiner , Felix Klein

Virtually all verification techniques using formal methods rely on the availability of a formal specification, which describes the design requirements precisely. However, formulating specifications remains a manual task that is notoriously…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

Interval Temporal Logic (ITL) is an established temporal formalism for reasoning about time periods. For over 25 years, it has been applied in a number of ways and several ITL variants, axiom systems and tools have been investigated. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ben Moszkowski

Runtime monitoring is one of the central tasks to provide operational decision support to running business processes, and check on-the-fly whether they comply with constraints and rules. We study runtime monitoring of properties expressed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Riccardo De Masellis , Marco Grasso , Fabrizio Maggi , Marco Montali

We study the expressivity and complexity of model checking linear temporal logic with team semantics (TeamLTL). TeamLTL, despite being a purely modal logic, is capable of defining hyperproperties, i.e., properties which relate multiple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jonni Virtema , Jana Hofmann , Bernd Finkbeiner , Juha Kontinen , Fan Yang

We investigate the decidability of the ${0,\infty}$ fragment of Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL). We show that the satisfiability checking of TPTL$^{0,\infty}$ is PSPACE-complete. Moreover, even its 1-variable fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Khushraj Nanik Madnani , Rupak Majumdar , Paritosh K. Pandya

We extend previous work on symbolic self-triggered control for non-deterministic continuous-time nonlinear systems without stability assumptions to a larger class of specifications. Our goal is to synthesise a controller for two objectives:…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Clovis Eberhart , Jérémy Dubut