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We present a general framework for modelling and verifying epistemic properties over parameterized multi-agent systems that communicate by truthful public announcements. In our framework, the number of agents or the amount of certain…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Daniel Stan , Anthony Widjaja Lin

Algorithmic fairness has become a central concern in modern machine learning and AI applications. However, two pressing challenges remain: (1) The fairness guarantees of existing methods often rely on specific data distributional…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-14 Xiaotian Hou , Linjun Zhang

We present a unified deductive verification framework for first-order temporal properties based on well-founded rankings, where verification conditions are discharged using SMT solvers. To that end, we introduce a novel reduction from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Raz Lotan , Neta Elad , Oded Padon , Sharon Shoham

In this paper we consider the problem of proving properties of infinite behaviour of formalisms suitable to describe (infinite state) systems with recursion and parallelism. As a formal setting, we consider the framework of Process…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Laura Bozzelli , Massimo Benerecetti , Adriano Peron

With the increased use of machine learning systems for decision making, questions about the fairness properties of such systems start to take center stage. Most existing work on algorithmic fairness assume complete observation of features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Nikil Roashan Selvam , Guy Van den Broeck , YooJung Choi

We study the safety verification problem for parameterized systems under the release-acquire (RA) semantics. It has been shown that the problem is intractable for systems with unlimited access to atomic compare-and-swap (CAS) instructions.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Adwait Godbole , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Roland Meyer

We consider parameterized concurrent systems consisting of a finite but unknown number of components, obtained by replicating a given set of finite state automata. Components communicate by executing atomic interactions whose participants…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Marius Bozga , Javier Esparza , Radu Iosif , Joseph Sifakis , Christoph Welzel

We consider the parameterized verification problem for distributed algorithms where the goal is to develop techniques to prove the correctness of a given algorithm regardless of the number of participating processes. Motivated by an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nathalie Bertrand , Nicolas Markey , Ocan Sankur , Nicolas Waldburger

We study the synthesis problem for distributed architectures with a parametric number of finite-state components. Parameterized specifications arise naturally in a synthesis setting, but thus far it was unclear how to detect realizability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Swen Jacobs , Roderick Bloem

We study the complexity of the model-checking problem for parameterized discrete-timed systems with arbitrarily many anonymous and identical processes, with and without a distinguished "controller", and communicating via synchronous…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Benjamin Aminof , Sasha Rubin , Francesco Spegni , Florian Zuleger

Commutativity has proven to be a powerful tool in reasoning about concurrent programs. Recent work has shown that a commutativity-based reduction of a program may admit simpler proofs than the program itself. The framework of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Azadeh Farzan , Dominik Klumpp , Andreas Podelski

Inspired by distributed applications that use consensus or other agreement protocols for global coordination, we define a new computational model for parameterized systems that is based on a general global synchronization primitive and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Nouraldin Jaber , Swen Jacobs , Christopher Wagner , Milind Kulkarni , Roopsha Samanta

We present the SER modeling language for automatically verifying serializability of concurrent programs, i.e., whether every concurrent execution of the program is equivalent to some serial execution. SER programs are suitably restricted to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Guy Amir , Mark Barbone , Nicolas Amat , Jules Jacobs

In this paper we study possibilities of using hierarchical reasoning, symbol elimination and model generation for the verification of parametric systems, where the parameters can be constants or functions. Our goal is to automatically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans

We consider the problem of automatically verifying programs which manipulate arbitrary data structures. Our specification language is expressive, contains a notion of \emph{separation}, and thus enables a precise specification of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Duc-Hiep Chu , Joxan Jaffar

Probabilistic concurrent systems are foundational models for modern mobile computing. In this paper, a unifying approach to probabilistic testing equivalences is proposed. With the help of a new distribution-based semantics for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Weijun Chen , Yuxi Fu , Huan Long , Hao Wu

In this work we extend the Emerson and Kahlon's cutoff theorems for process skeletons with conjunctive guards to Parameterized Networks of Timed Automata, i.e. systems obtained by an \emph{apriori} unknown number of Timed Automata…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Luca Spalazzi , Francesco Spegni

In this paper we investigate to which extent a very simple and natural "reachability as deducibility" approach, originated in the research in formal methods in security, is applicable to the automated verification of large classes of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Alexei Lisitsa

We propose a new abstract formalism for probabilistic timed systems, Parametric Interval Probabilistic Timed Automata, based on an extension of Parametric Timed Automata and Interval Markov Chains. In this context, we consider the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Étienne André , Benoît Delahaye , Paulin Fournier

Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun