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We study the repair problem for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple computation traces. This class of properties includes information flow policies like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner

Probabilistic timed automata are classical timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions over edges. We introduce clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata, a variant of probabilistic timed automata in which transition…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Jeremy Sproston

This paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of discrete-time stochastic systems. Our goal is to find a lower bound on the probability that a complex temporal property is satisfied by finite traces of the system.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Pushpak Jagtap , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

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

Verification of temporal logic properties plays a crucial role in proving the desired behaviors of hybrid systems. In this paper, we propose an interval method for verifying the properties described by a bounded linear temporal logic. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Daisuke Ishii , Naoki Yonezaki , Alexandre Goldsztejn

Hyperproperties are properties of systems that relate multiple computation traces, including security and concurrency properties. This paper introduces a bounded model checking (BMC) algorithm for hyperproperties expressed in HyperLTL,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Tzu-Han Hsu , Cesar Sanchez , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Autonomous agents often operate in uncertain environments where their decisions are made based on beliefs over states of targets. We are interested in controller synthesis for complex tasks defined over belief spaces. Designing such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Chanyeol Yoo , Calin Belta

This paper argues that a combined treatment of probabilities, time and actions is essential for an appropriate logical account of the notion of probability; and, based on this intuition, describes an expressive probabilistic temporal logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo

This paper introduces operators, semantics, characterizations, and solution-independent conditions to guarantee temporal logic specifications for hybrid dynamical systems. Hybrid dynamical systems are given in terms of differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Hyejin Han , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

Given a formula in a temporal logic such as LTL or MTL, a fundamental problem is the complexity of evaluating the formula on a given finite word. For LTL, the complexity of this task was recently shown to be in NC. In this paper, we present…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Daniel Bundala , Joël Ouaknine

Design and control of autonomous systems that operate in uncertain or adversarial environments can be facilitated by formal modelling and analysis. Probabilistic model checking is a technique to automatically verify, for a given temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker

Many complex scenarios require the coordination of agents possessing unique points of view and distinct semantic commitments. In response, standpoint logic (SL) was introduced in the context of knowledge integration, allowing one to reason…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Nicola Gigante , Lucia {Gomez Alvarez} , Tim S. Lyon

We consider the problem of verifying stochastic models of biochemical networks against behavioral properties expressed in temporal logic terms. Exact probabilistic verification approaches such as, for example, CSL/PCTL model checking, are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Paolo Ballarini , Michele Forlin , Tommaso Mazza , Davide Prandi

In this article we study linear temporal logics with team semantics (TeamLTL) that are novel logics for defining hyperproperties. We define Kamp-type translations of these logics into fragments of first-order team logic and second-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Juha Kontinen , Max Sandström

Many types of attacks on confidentiality stem from the nondeterministic nature of the environment that computer programs operate in (e.g., schedulers and asynchronous communication channels). In this paper, we focus on verification of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Tzu-Han Hsu , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner , César Sánchez

In this paper, we propose Probabilistic discrete-time Projection Temporal Logic (PrPTL), which extends Projection Temporal Logic (PTL) with probability. To this end, some useful formulas are derived and some logic laws are given. Further,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Xiaoxiao Yang

Whereas the semantics of probabilistic languages has been extensively studied, specification languages for their properties have received less attention -- with the notable exception of recent and on-going efforts by Joost-Pieter Katoen and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Einar Broch Johnsen , Eduard Kamburjan , Raúl Pardo , Erik Voogd , Andrzej Wąsowski

Model-checking techniques have been extended to analyze quantum programs and communication protocols represented as quantum Markov chains, an extension of classical Markov chains. To specify qualitative temporal properties, a subspace-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Ji Guan , Yuan Feng , Andrea Turrini , Mingsheng Ying

Inevitability properties in branching temporal logics are of the syntax forall eventually \phi, where \phi is an arbitrary (timed) CTL formula. In the sense that "good things will happen", they are parallel to the "liveness" properties in…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Farn Wang , Geng-Dian Hwang , Fang Yu

Temporal logics stands for a widely adopted family of formalisms for the verification of computational devices, enriching propositional logics by operators predicating on the step-wise behaviour of a system. Its quantified extensions allow…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Fabio Gadducci , Davide Trotta