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We study a variant of the classical membership problem in automata theory, which consists of deciding whether a given input word is accepted by a given automaton. We do so under a different perspective, that is, we consider a dynamic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alejandro Grez , Filip Mazowiecki , Michał Pilipczuk , Gabriele Puppis , Cristian Riveros

Model-based testing (MBT) promises a scalable solution to testing large systems, if a model is available. Creating these models for large systems, however, has proven to be difficult. Composing larger models from smaller ones could solve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Gijs van Cuyck , Lars van Arragon , Jan Tretmans

In concurrent and distributed systems, software components are expected to communicate according to predetermined protocols and APIs - and if a component does not observe them, the system's reliability is compromised. Furthermore, isolating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Christian Batrolo Burlò , Adrian Francalanza , Alceste Scalas

Timed systems, such as timed automata, are usually analyzed using their operational semantics on timed words. The classical region abstraction for timed automata reduces them to (untimed) finite state automata with the same time-abstract…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 S. Akshay , Paul Gastin , Shankara Narayanan Krishna

We present TACO, a toolsuite for the development and automatic verification of fault-tolerant and threshold-based distributed algorithms. Our toolsuite implements three approaches for model checking threshold automata in different decidable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Paul Eichler , Tom Baumeister , Mouhammad Sakr , Mahboubeh Kalateh Dowlati , Marcus Völp , Swen Jacobs

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a first-order temporal logic, LTLFO, and a corresponding monitor construction based on a new type of automaton, called spawning automaton. Specifically, we show that monitoring a specification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Andreas Bauer , Jan-Christoph Küster , Gil Vegliach

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) aims to identify surface changes across bi-temporal satellite images. Most previous methods rely solely on mask supervision, which effectively guides spatial localization but provides limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Han Guo , Chenyang Liu , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Chen , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Deontic logics are formalisms for reasoning over norms, obligations, permissions and prohibitions. Input/Output (I/O) Logics are a particular family of so-called norm-based deontic logics that formalize conditional norms outside of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Alexander Steen

Synchronous systems provide a basic model of embedded systems and industrial systems are modeled as Simulink diagrams and/or Lustre programs. Although the test generation problem is critical in the development of safe systems, it often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Daisuke Ishii , Takashi Tomita , Kenji Onishi , Toshiaki Aoki

In many embedded real-time systems, applications often interact with I/O devices via read/write operations, which may incur considerable suspension delays. Unfortunately, prior analysis methods for validating timing correctness in embedded…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Guangmo Tong , Cong Liu

C-O Diagrams have been introduced as a means to have a more visual representation of electronic contracts, where it is possible to represent the obligations, permissions and prohibitions of the different signatories, as well as what are the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-09-14 Enrique Martínez , M. Emilia Cambronero , Gregorio Díaz , Gerardo Schneider

We introduce a tableau decision method for deciding realizability of specifications expressed in a safety fragment of LTL that includes bounded future temporal operators. Tableau decision procedures for temporal and modal logics have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Montserrat Hermo , Paqui Lucio , César Sánchez

We present a small, formal language for specifying the behavior of simple console I/O programs. The design is driven by the concrete application case of testing interactive Haskell programs written by students. Specifications are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Oliver Westphal , Janis Voigtländer

Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) aims to mitigate distributional shifts between training and test domains during inference time. However, existing TTA methods fall short in the realistic scenario where models face both continually changing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yingkai Yang , Chaoqi Chen , Hui Huang

We present a new approach to conformance testing of black-box reactive systems. We consider system specifications written as linear temporal logic formulas to generate tests as sequences of input/output pairs: inputs are extracted from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Massimo Narizzano , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella , Simone Vuotto

Monitoring is an important part of the verification toolbox, in particular in situations where exhaustive verification using, e.g., model-checking is infeasible. The goal of online monitoring is to determine the satisfaction or violation of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Thomas M. Grosen , Sean Kauffman , Kim G. Larsen , Martin Zimmermann

This article introduces a fully automated verification technique that permits to analyze real-time systems described using a continuous notion of time and a mixture of operational (i.e., automata-based) and descriptive (i.e., logic-based)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

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

In previous work, summarized in this paper, we proposed an operation of parallel composition for rewriting-logic theories, allowing compositional specification of systems and reusability of components. The present paper focuses on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Óscar Martín , Alberto Verdejo , Narciso Martí-Oliet

Task parallelism research has traditionally focused on optimizing computation-intensive applications. Due to the proliferation of commodity parallel processors, there has been recent interest in supporting interactive applications. Such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Kyle Singer , Kunal Agrawal , I-Ting Angelina Lee