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Hyperproperties, which generalize trace properties by relating multiple traces, are widely studied in information-flow security. Recently, a number of logics for hyperproperties have been proposed, and there is a need to understand their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Norine Coenen , Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Jana Hofmann

Formally specifying, let alone verifying, properties of systems involving multiple programming languages is inherently challenging. We introduce Heterogeneous Dynamic Logic (HDL), a framework for combining reasoning principles from distinct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Samuel Teuber , Mattias Ulbrich , André Platzer , Bernhard Beckert

Hyperproperties are properties of computational systems that require more than one trace to evaluate, e.g., many information-flow security and concurrency requirements. Where a trace property defines a set of traces, a hyperproperty defines…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jan Baumeister , Norine Coenen , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner , Cesar Sanchez

Applying dynamic logics to program verifications is a challenge, because their axiomatic rules for regular expressions can be difficult to be adapted to different program models. We present a novel dynamic logic, called DLp, which supports…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yuanrui Zhang

Petri nets are a modeling formalism capable of describing complex distributed systems and there exists a large number of both academic and industrial tools that enable automatic verification of model properties. Typical questions include…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Bruno Maria René Gonzalez , Peter Gjøl Jensen , Stefan Schmid , Jiří Srba , Martin Zimmermann

Hyperproperties extend trace properties to express properties of sets of traces, and they are increasingly popular in specifying various security and performance-related properties in domains such as cyber-physical systems, smart grids, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ernest Bonnah , Luan Viet Nguyen , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

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

Hyperproperties have shown to be a powerful tool for expressing and reasoning about information-flow security policies. In this paper, we investigate the problem of statistical model checking (SMC) for hyperproperties. Unlike exhaustive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Yu Wang , Siddhartha Nalluri , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Miroslav Pajic

Hyperproperties are properties of systems that relate different executions traces, with many applications from security to symmetry, consistency models of concurrency, etc. In recent years, different linear-time logics for specifying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Laura Bozzelli , Adriano Peron , Cesar Sanchez

Hyperproperties are properties of sets of computation traces. In this paper, we study quantitative hyperproperties, which we define as hyperproperties that express a bound on the number of traces that may appear in a certain relation. For…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Hazem Torfah

We introduce a functional inductive framework to verify discrete-time dynamical systems against hyperproperties specified as Hyperlinear temporal logic formulae via a notion of HyperCertificates. Unlike linear temporal logic (LTL) formulae…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishnu Murali , Amin Falah , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

We study the problem of formalizing and checking probabilistic hyperproperties for models that allow nondeterminism in actions. We extend the temporal logic \HyperPCTL, which has been previously introduced for discrete-time Markov chains,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Erika Abraham , Ezio Bartocci , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Oyendrila Dobe

Dynamic logic is a powerful approach to reasoning about programs and their executions, obtained by extending classical logic with modalities that can express program executions as formulas. However, the use of dynamic logic in the setting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Matteo Acclavio , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti

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

We introduce Hyper$^2$LTL, a temporal logic for the specification of hyperproperties that allows for second-order quantification over sets of traces. Unlike first-order temporal logics for hyperproperties, such as HyperLTL, Hyper$^2$LTL can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Niklas Metzger

Hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple system executions to each other. They are not expressible in standard temporal logics, like LTL, CTL, and CTL*, and thus cannot be monitored with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

Since its establishment, propositional dynamic logic (PDL) has been a subject of intensive academic research and frequent use in the industry. We have studied the complexity of some PDL problems and in this paper, we show results for some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mohammad Javad Hosseinpour , Farzad Didehvar

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and occur, e.g., when specifying security and information-flow properties. Checking if a hyperproperty is satisfiable has many important applications, such as…

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

Propositional Dynamic Logic, PDL, is a modal logic designed to formalize the reasoning about programs. By extending accessibility between states to states and state sets, concurrent propositional dynamic logic CPDL, is introduced to include…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Chun-Yu Lin

We examine a bidirectional propositional dynamic logic (PDL) for finite and infinite message sequence charts (MSCs) extending LTL and TLC-. By this kind of multi-modal logic we can express properties both in the entire future and in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benedikt Bollig , Dietrich Kuske , Ingmar Meinecke