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This paper describes a technique for inferring temporal-logic properties for sets of finite data streams. Such data streams arise in many domains, including server logs, program testing, and financial and marketing data; temporal-logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Samuel Huang , Rance Cleaveland

Various and ubiquitous information systems are being used in monitoring, exchanging, and collecting information. These systems are generating massive amount of event sequence logs that may help us understand underlying phenomenon. By…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-13 Yihuang Kang , Vladimir Zadorozhny

We address the problem of model checking context-free specifications for probabilistic pushdown automata, which has relevant applications in the verification of recursive probabilistic programs. Operator Precedence Languages (OPLs) are an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Francesco Pontiggia , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

Probabilistic model checking is a widely used formal verification technique to automatically verify qualitative and quantitative properties for probabilistic models. However, capturing such systems, writing corresponding properties, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Kangfeng Ye , Fang Yan , Simos Gerasimou

We extended our simulation tool Ntccrt for probabilistic ntcc (pntcc) models. In addition, we developed a verification tool for pntcc models. Using this tool we can prove properties such as the system will go to a successful state with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Mauricio Toro

Propositional and modal inclusion logic are formalisms that belong to the family of logics based on team semantics. This article investigates the model checking and validity problems of these logics. We identify complexity bounds for both…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Lauri Hella , Antti Kuusisto , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema

The generation of comprehensible explanations is an essential feature of modern artificial intelligence systems. In this work, we consider probabilistic logic programming, an extension of logic programming which can be useful to model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Germán Vidal

We report on COOL-MC, a model checking tool for fixpoint logics that is parametric in the branching type of models (nondeterministic, game-based, probabilistic etc.) and in the next-step modalities used in formulae. The tool implements…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Daniel Hausmann , Merlin Humml , Simon Prucker , Lutz Schröder , Aaron Strahlberger

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of answering knowledge-intensive complex questions with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, they tend to generate factually incorrect reasoning steps when the required knowledge is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Shulin Cao , Jiajie Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Xin Lv , Zijun Yao , Qi Tian , Juanzi Li , Lei Hou

The problem of checking a logged event trace against a temporal logic specification arises in many practical cases. Unfortunately, known algorithms for an expressive logic like MTL (Metric Temporal Logic) do not scale with respect to two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Marcello M. Bersani , Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic , Pierluigi San Pietro

We consider the problem of generating randomized control sequences for complex networked systems typically actuated by human agents. Our approach leverages a concept known as control improvisation, which is based on a combination of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ilge Akkaya , Daniel J. Fremont , Rafael Valle , Alexandre Donzé , Edward A. Lee , Sanjit A. Seshia

Hyperproperties enable simultaneous reasoning about multiple execution traces of a system and are useful to reason about non-interference, opacity, robustness, fairness, observational determinism, etc. We introduce hyper parametric timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Masaki Waga , Étienne André

Model checking verifies that a model of a system satisfies a given property, and otherwise produces a counter-example explaining the violation. The verified properties are formally expressed in temporal logics. Some temporal logics, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Simon Busard , Charles Pecheur

We propose a validity preserving translation from a subset of epistemic Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL) to epistemic Computation Tree Logic (CTL). The considered subset of epistemic ATL is known to have the finite model property and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Dimitar P. Guelev

Parametric model checking (PMC) computes algebraic formulae that express key non-functional properties of a system (reliability, performance, etc.) as rational functions of the system and environment parameters. In software engineering, PMC…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xinwei Fang , Radu Calinescu , Simos Gerasimou , Faisal Alhwikem

We present POPACheck, the first model checking tool for probabilistic Pushdown Automata (pPDA) supporting temporal logic specifications. POPACheck provides a user-friendly probabilistic modeling language with recursion that automatically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Francesco Pontiggia , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

This paper proposes to use probabilistic model checking to synthesize optimal robot policies in multi-tasking autonomous systems that are subject to human-robot interaction. Given the convincing empirical evidence that human behavior can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sebastian Junges , Nils Jansen , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Ufuk Topcu

Parametric Markov chains occur quite naturally in various applications: they can be used for a conservative analysis of probabilistic systems (no matter how the parameter is chosen, the system works to specification); they can be used to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Paul Gainer , Ernst Moritz Hahn , Sven Schewe

Markov population models (MPMs) are a widely used modelling formalism in the area of computational biology and related areas. The semantics of a MPM is an infinite-state continuous-time Markov chain. In this paper, we use the established…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-06-10 David Spieler , Ernst Moritz Hahn , Lijun Zhang

Comprehensive evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) is an open research problem. Existing evaluations rely on deterministic point estimates generated via greedy decoding. However, we find that deterministic evaluations fail to capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann , Leo Schwinn