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Hyperproperties are properties over sets of traces (or runs) of a system, as opposed to properties of just one trace. They were introduced in 2010 and have been much studied since, in particular via an extension of the temporal logic LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nicolas Waldburger , Chana Weil-Kennedy , Pierre Ganty , César Sánchez

Information-flow policies prescribe which information is available to a given user or subsystem. We study the problem of specifying such properties in reactive systems, which may require dynamic changes in information-flow restrictions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Ezio Bartocci , Thomas Ferrère , Thomas A. Henzinger , Dejan Nickovic , Ana Oliveira da Costa

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and commonly occur when specifying information-flow and security policies. Logics like HyperLTL utilize explicit quantification over execution traces to express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

We study the reactive synthesis problem for hyperproperties given as formulas of the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties, i.e., sets of traces, to sets of sets of traces. Typical examples are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Philip Lukert , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

This paper presents LEXR, a framework for explaining the decision making of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) using a formal description language called Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). LTL is the de facto standard for the specification of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Bishwamittra Ghosh , Daniel Neider

Max-Plus Linear (MPL) systems are an algebraic formalism with practical applications in transportation networks, manufacturing and biological systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatically analyzing the properties of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Muhammad Syifa'ul Mufid , Andrea Micheli , Alessandro Abate , Alessandro Cimatti

Signal temporal logic (STL) was introduced for monitoring temporal properties of continuous-time signals for continuous and hybrid systems. Differential dynamic logic (dL) was introduced to reason about the end states of a hybrid program.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Hammad Ahmad , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

HyperLTL is a temporal logic that can express hyperproperties, i.e., properties that relate multiple execution traces of a system. Such properties are becoming increasingly important and naturally occur, e.g., in information-flow control,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Temporal logics (TLs) have been widely used to formalize interpretable tasks for cyber-physical systems. Time Window Temporal Logic (TWTL) has been recently proposed as a specification language for dynamical systems. In particular, it can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Ahmad Ahmad , Cristian-Ioan Vasile , Roberto Tron , Calin Belta

Computation Tree Logic (CTL) and its extensions CTL* and CTL+ are widely used in automated verification as a basis for common model checking tools. But while they can express many properties of interest like reachability, even simple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Jens Oliver Gutsfeld , Markus Müller-Olm , Christian Dielitz

In this work, we focus on decomposing large multi-agent path planning problems with global temporal logic goals (common to all agents) into smaller sub-problems that can be solved and executed independently. Crucially, the sub-problems'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kevin Leahy , Austin Jones , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

HyperLTL, the extension of Linear Temporal Logic by trace quantifiers, is a uniform framework for expressing information flow policies by relating multiple traces of a security-critical system. HyperLTL has been successfully applied to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Corto Mascle , Martin Zimmermann

We investigate the task and motion planning problem for dynamical systems under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Existing works on STL control synthesis mainly focus on generating plans that satisfy properties over a single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Jianing Zhao , Bowen Ye , Xinyi Yu , Rupak Majumdar , Xiang Yin

System requirements related to concepts like information flow, knowledge, and robustness cannot be judged in terms of individual system executions, but rather require an analysis of the relationship between multiple executions. Such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Bernd Finkbeiner

Information security properties of reactive systems like non-interference often require relating different executions of the system to each other and following them simultaneously. Such hyperproperties can also be useful in other contexts,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jens Oliver Gutsfeld , Markus Müller-Olm , Christoph Ohrem

Hyperproperties generalize trace properties by expressing relations between multiple computations. Hyperpropertes include policies from information-flow security, like observational determinism or non-interference, and many other system…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Bernd Finkbeiner

We study satisfiability for HyperLTL with a $\forall^*\exists^*$ quantifier prefix, known to be highly undecidable in general. HyperLTL can express system properties that relate multiple traces (so-called hyperproperties), which are often…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Raven Beutner , David Carral , Bernd Finkbeiner , Jana Hofmann , Markus Krötzsch

We introduce two variants of computation tree logic CTL based on team semantics: an asynchronous one and a synchronous one. For both variants we investigate the computational complexity of the satisfiability as well as the model checking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema

Runtime verification is an effective automated method for specification-based offline testing and analysis as well as online monitoring of complex systems. The specification language is often a variant of regular expressions or a popular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ramy Medhat , Yogi Joshi , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastian Fischmeister

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a specification language for finite sequences (called traces) widely used in program verification, motion planning in robotics, process mining, and many other areas. We consider the problem of learning LTL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Daniel Neider