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Timed Automata (TA) are a very popular modeling formalism for systems with time-sensitive properties. A common task is to verify if a network of TA satisfies a given property, usually expressed in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), or in a subset…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Robert L. Smith , Marcello M. Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

Satisfiability checking for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a fundamental step in checking for possible errors in LTL assertions. Extant LTL satisfiability checkers use a variety of different search procedures. With the sole exception of LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Jianwen Li , Geguang Pu , Lijun Zhang , Moshe Y. Vardi , Jifeng He

This paper studies Linear Temporal Logic over Finite Traces (LTLf) where proposition letters are replaced with first-order formulas interpreted over arbitrary theories, in the spirit of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. The resulting logic,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante

We present team semantics for two of the most important linear and branching time specification languages, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and Computation Tree Logic (CTL). With team semantics, LTL is able to express hyperproperties, which have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema , Martin Zimmermann

This paper introduces a novel technique to decide the satisfiability of formulae written in the language of Linear Temporal Logic with Both future and past operators and atomic formulae belonging to constraint system D (CLTLB(D) for short).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Marcello M. Bersani , Achille Frigeri , Angelo Morzenti , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

While most approaches in formal methods address system correctness, ensuring robustness has remained a challenge. In this paper we present and study the logic rLTL which provides a means to formally reason about both correctness and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Tzanis Anevlavis , Matthew Philippe , Daniel Neider , Paulo Tabuada

Quantified CTL (QCTL) is a well-studied temporal logic that extends CTL with quantification over atomic propositions. It has recently come to the fore as a powerful intermediary framework to study logics for strategic reasoning. We extend…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Raphaël Berthon , Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano

Parametric timed automata extend timed automata (Alur and Dill, 1991) in that they allow the specification of parametric bounds on the clock values. Since their introduction in 1993 by Alur, Henzinger, and Vardi, it is known that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Karin Quaas

Metric temporal logic (MTL) and timed propositional temporal logic (TPTL) are quantitative extensions of linear temporal logic, which are prominent and widely used in the verification of real-timed systems. It was recently shown that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Shiguang Feng , Markus Lohrey , Karin Quaas

We present a bounded model checking algorithm for signal temporal logic (STL) that exploits mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). A key technical element is our novel MILP encoding of the STL semantics; it follows the idea of stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Sota Sato , Jie An , Zhenya Zhang , Ichiro Hasuo

We study two unary fragments of the well-known metric interval temporal logic MITL[U_I,S_I] that was originally proposed by Alur and Henzinger, and we pin down their expressiveness as well as satisfaction complexities. We show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Paritosh K. Pandya , Simoni S. Shah

We present a novel asynchronous hyper linear time temporal logic named LPrL (Linear Time Predicate Logic) and establish its basic theory. LPrL is a natural first order extension of LTL (Linear time temporal logic), in which the predicates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Parasara Sridhar Duggirala , P. S. Thiagarajan

We present MsATL: the first tool for deciding the satisfiability of Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL) with imperfect information. MsATL combines SAT Modulo Monotonic Theories solvers with existing ATL model checkers: MCMAS and STV. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Artur Niewiadomski , Magdalena Kacprzak , Damian Kurpiewski , Michał Knapik , Wojciech Penczek , Wojciech Jamroga

Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL*) is a central logic for multiagent systems. Its extension to the imperfect information setting (ATL*i ) is well known to have an undecidable model-checking problem when agents have perfect recall.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Raphaël Berthon , Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano

Mechanized verification of liveness properties for infinite programs with effects and nondeterminism is challenging. Existing temporal reasoning frameworks operate at the level of models such as traces and automata. Reasoning happens at a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Eleftherios Ioannidis , Yannick Zakowski , Steve Zdancewic , Sebastian Angel

This paper revisits the classical notion of sampling in the setting of real-time temporal logics for the modeling and analysis of systems. The relationship between the satisfiability of Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) formulas over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Rossi

In runtime verification, manually formalizing a specification for monitoring system executions is a tedious and error-prone process. To address this issue, we consider the problem of automatically synthesizing formal specifications from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanael Fijalkow , Daniel Neider , Guillermo A. Perez

Metric temporal logic (MTL) provides a formal framework for defining time-dependent mission requirements on autonomous vehicles. However, optimizing control decisions subject to these constraints is often computationally expensive. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Andrew F. Thompson , Joshua A. Robbins , Jonah J. Glunt , Sean B. Brennan , Herschel C. Pangborn

This paper presents an incremental replanning algorithm, dubbed LTL-D*, for temporal-logic-based task planning in a dynamically changing environment. Unexpected changes in the environment may lead to failures in satisfying a task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiming Ren , Haris Miller , Karen M. Feigh , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

While reachability analysis is one of the most promising approaches for formal verification of dynamic systems, a major disadvantage preventing a more widespread application is the requirement to manually tune algorithm parameters such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak