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Hyperproperties express the relationship between multiple executions of a system. This is needed in many AI-related fields, such as knowledge representation and planning, to capture system properties related to knowledge, information flow,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Niklas Metzger

A new logic for verification of security policies is proposed. The logic, HyperLTL, extends linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with connectives for explicit and simultaneous quantification over multiple execution paths, thereby enabling…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Masoud Koleini , Michael R. Clarkson , Kristopher K. Micinski

There is a growing interest on formal methods-based robotic planning for temporal logic objectives. In this work, we extend the scope of existing synthesis methods to hyper-temporal logics. We are motivated by the fact that important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Yu Wang , Siddhartha Nalluri , Miroslav Pajic

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

We study and provide efficient algorithms for multi-objective model checking problems for Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Given an MDP, M, and given multiple linear-time (\omega -regular or LTL) properties \varphi\_i, and probabilities…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Kousha Etessami , Marta Kwiatkowska , Moshe Y. Vardi , Mihalis Yannakakis

We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), that are a standard framework for robotics applications to model uncertainties present in the real world, with temporal logic specifications. All temporal logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin Chmelík , Raghav Gupta , Ayush Kanodia

Hyperproperties are properties that relate multiple execution traces. Previous work on monitoring hyperproperties focused on synchronous hyperproperties, usually specified in HyperLTL. When monitoring synchronous hyperproperties, all traces…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Marek Chalupa , Thomas A. Henzinger

A hyperproperty relates executions of a program and is used to formalize security objectives such as confidentiality, non-interference, privacy, and anonymity. Formally, a hyperproperty is a collection of allowable sets of executions. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ali Bajwa , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

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

A specification given as a formula in linear temporal logic (LTL) defines a system by its set of traces. However, certain features such as information flow security constraints are rather modeled as so-called hyperproperties, which are sets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Martin Lück

Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) is a well-known modal logic which has become a standard for expressing temporal properties of finite-state Markov chains in the context of automated model checking. In this paper, we give a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Federico Ramponi , Debasish Chatterjee , Sean Summers , John Lygeros

HyperLTL is an extension of linear-time temporal logic for the specification of hyperproperties, i.e., temporal properties that relate multiple computation traces. HyperLTL can express information flow policies as well as properties like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Norine Coenen , Bernd Finkbeiner , César Sánchez , Leander Tentrup

Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) is frequently used to formally specify control objectives such as probabilistic reachability and safety. In this work, we focus on model checking PCTL specifications statistically on Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Yu Wang , Nima Roohi , Matthew West , Mahesh Viswanathan , Geir E. Dullerud

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

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

We study the reactive synthesis problem for hyperproperties given as formulas of the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties, i.e., sets of traces, to sets of sets of traces. Typical examples are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Philip Lukert , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) and Continuous Stochastic Logic (CSL) are often used to describe specifications of probabilistic properties for discrete time and continuous time, respectively. In PCTL and CSL, the possibility of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Takashi Tomita , Shigeki Hagihara , Naoki Yonezaki

We study frequency linear-time temporal logic (fLTL) which extends the linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with a path operator $G^p$ expressing that on a path, certain formula holds with at least a given frequency p, thus relaxing the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Vojtěch Forejt , Jan Krčál

Multi-agent planning under stochastic dynamics is usually formalised using decentralized (partially observable) Markov decision processes ( MDPs) and reachability or expected reward specifications. In this paper, we propose a different…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Francesco Pontiggia , Filip Macák , Roman Andriushchenko , Michele Chiari , Milan Češka

This paper deals with control of partially observable discrete-time stochastic systems. It introduces and studies Markov Decision Processes with Incomplete Information and with semi-uniform Feller transition probabilities. The important…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Eugene A. Feinberg , Pavlo O. Kasyanov , Michael Z. Zgurovsky