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Strategy synthesis typically follows an all-or-nothing paradigm, returning unrealisable whenever a specification cannot be guaranteed in an uncertain environment. In this paper, we introduce optimal LTLf synthesis, where the goal is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yujian Cao , Sven Schewe , Qiyi Tang , Shufang Zhu

Many systems are naturally modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), combining probabilities and strategic actions. Given a model of a system as an MDP and some logical specification of system behavior, the goal of synthesis is to find a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Andrew M. Wells , Morteza Lahijanian , Lydia E. Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi

Correct-by-design synthesis provides a principled framework for establishing formal safety guarantees for stochastic multi-agent systems (MAS). However, conventional approaches based on finite abstractions often incur prohibitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Xinyuan Qiu , Ruohan Wang , Siyuan Liu , Sofie Haesaert

The synthesis of reactive systems aims for the automated construction of strategies for systems that interact with their environment. Whereas the synthesis approach has the potential to change the development of reactive systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Linda Feeken , Martin Fränzle

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

Functional languages as input specifications for High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools allow to specify data dependencies but do not contain a notion of time nor execution order. In this paper, we propose a method to add this notion to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Hendrik Folmer , Robert de Groote , Marco Bekooij

We present a robust synthesis algorithm for uncertain linear time-varying (LTV) systems on finite horizons. The uncertain system is described as an interconnection of a known LTV system and a perturbation. The input-output behavior of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Jyot Buch , Peter Seiler

In this work, we present a new approach to high level synthesis (HLS), where high level functions are first mapped to an architectural template, before hardware synthesis is performed. As FPGA platforms are especially suitable for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Shaoyi Cheng , John Wawrzynek

Reactive synthesis addresses the problem of generating a controller for a temporal specification in an adversarial environment; it was typically studied for LTL. Driven by applications ranging from AI to business process management, LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sarah Winkler

This paper studies the controller synthesis problem for nonlinear control systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications using zonotope techniques. A local-to-global control strategy is proposed for the desired specification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Wei Ren , Raphael M. Jungers , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Automatic synthesis from temporal logic specifications is an attractive alternative to manual system design, due to its ability to generate correct-by-construction implementations from high-level specifications. Due to the high complexity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

This paper proposes a new AND-OR graph search framework for synthesis of Linear Temporal Logic on finite traces (\LTLf), that overcomes some limitations of previous approaches. Within such framework, we devise a procedure inspired by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marco Favorito

Reactive synthesis is an automated procedure to obtain a correct-by-construction reactive system from a given specification. GR(1) is a well-known fragment of linear temporal logic (LTL) where synthesis is possible using a polynomial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Shahar Maoz , Jan Oliver Ringert

High-level synthesis (HLS) transforms an algorithmic description of hardware from a higher abstraction (e.g., C/C++) into a register-transfer level (RTL) design, offering reduced development time and greater flexibility in design space…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xiaofeng Zhou , Linfeng Du , Guangyu Hu , Sharad Sinha , Hongce Zhang , Wei Zhang

Because of the scalability issues associated with the symbolic controller synthesis approach, employing it in a multi-agent system (MAS) framework becomes difficult. In this paper, we present a novel approach for synthesizing distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 David Smith Sundarsingh , Ratnangshu Das , Adnane Saoud , Pushpak Jagtap

Most algorithms for the synthesis of reactive systems focus on the construction of finite-state machines rather than actual programs. This often leads to badly structured, unreadable code. In this paper, we present a bounded synthesis…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Carsten Gerstacker , Felix Klein , Bernd Finkbeiner

In synthesis, assumptions are constraints on the environment that rule out certain environment behaviors. A key observation here is that even if we consider systems with LTLf goals on finite traces, environment assumptions need to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Shufang Zhu , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Geguang Pu , Moshe Vardi

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, Stable Diffusion (SD) has emerged as a state-of-the-art framework for high-fidelity im-age synthesis. However, existing SD models suffer from suboptimal feature aggregation,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zhen-Qi Chen , Yuan-Fu Yang

We introduce LTLf+ and PPLTL+, two logics to express properties of infinite traces, that are based on the linear-time temporal logics LTLf and PPLTL on finite traces. LTLf+/PPLTL+ use levels of Manna and Pnueli's LTL safety-progress…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Benjamin Aminof , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Sasha Rubin , Moshe Y. Vardi

Formal control synthesis approaches over stochastic systems have received significant attention in the past few years, in view of their ability to provide provably correct controllers for complex logical specifications in an automated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Majid Zamani , Ilya Tkachev , Alessandro Abate