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Benchmarks are important measures to evaluate safety and compliance of AI models at scale. However, they typically do not offer verifiable results and lack confidentiality for model IP and benchmark datasets. We propose Attestable Audits,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Christoph Schnabl , Daniel Hugenroth , Bill Marino , Alastair R. Beresford

Conformance checking quantifies the deviations between a set of traces in a given process log and a set of possible traces defined by a process model. Current approaches mostly focus on added or missing events. Lately, multi-perspective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Florian Stertz , Juergen Mangler , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

The problem of mechanically formalizing and proving metatheoretic properties of programming language calculi, type systems, operational semantics, and related formal systems has received considerable attention recently. However, the dual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-05-29 James Cheney , Alberto Momigliano

The software of robotic assistants needs to be verified, to ensure its safety and functional correctness. Testing in simulation allows a high degree of realism in the verification. However, generating tests that cover both interesting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Dejanira Araiza-Illan , Tony Pipe , Kerstin Eder

In this paper, we focus on the design and verification of timed automata (TA). We introduce a new method for assisting construction and verification of TA models along with a tool implementing the proposed method, i.e., ATAC: Automated…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Beyazit Yalcinkaya , Ebru Aydin Gol

We propose and evaluate antichain algorithms to solve the universality and language inclusion problems for nondeterministic Buechi automata, and the emptiness problem for alternating Buechi automata. To obtain those algorithms, we establish…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Laurent Doyen , Jean-Francois Raskin

Partial observability and controllability are two well-known issues in test-case synthesis for interactive systems. We address the problem of partial control in the synthesis of test cases from timed-automata specifications. Building on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Léo Henry , Thierry Jéron , Nicolas Markey

Component-based software development has posed a serious challenge to system verification since externally-obtained components could be a new source of system failures. This issue can not be completely solved by either model-checking or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Gaoyan Xie , Zhe Dang

We present in this paper a model-based testing approach aiming at generating test cases from a UML/OCL model and a given test property. The property is expressed using a dedicated formalism based on patterns, and automatically translated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Kalou Cabrera Castillos , Frédéric Dadeau , Jacques Julliand

We present a new approach for reasoning about liveness properties of distributed systems, represented as automata. Our approach is based on simulation relations, and requires reasoning only over finite execution fragments. Current…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-01-08 Paul C. Attie

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

In this work, we consider translating tock-CSP into Timed Automata for UPPAAL to facilitate using UPPAAL in reasoning about temporal specifications of tock-CSP models. The process algebra tock-CSP provides textual notations for modelling…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Abdulrazaq Abba , Ana Cavalcanti , Jeremy Jacob

Runtime verification encompasses several lightweight techniques for checking whether a system's current execution satisfies a given specification. We focus on runtime verification for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Previous work describes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Javier Esparza , Vincent Fischer

Timed automata (TA) are a well-established formalism for specifying discrete-state/continuous-time behavior of time-critical reactive systems. Concerning the fundamental analysis problem of comparing a candidate implementation against a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Lars Luthmann , Hendrik Göttmann , Isabelle Bacher , Malte Lochau

Counter systems are a well-known and powerful modeling notation for specifying infinite-state systems. In this paper we target the problem of checking temporal properties of counter systems. We first focus on checking liveness properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-18 K Vasanta Lakshmi , Aravind Acharya , Raghavan Komondoor

An open problem for autonomous driving is how to validate the safety of an autonomous vehicle in simulation. Automated testing procedures can find failures of an autonomous system but these failures may be difficult to interpret due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Anthony Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This paper deals with a common verification methodology and environment for SystemC BCA and RTL models. The aim is to save effort by avoiding the same work done twice by different people and to reuse the same environment for the two design…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Giuseppe Falconeri , Walid Naifer , Nizar Romdhane

Program analysis is on the brink of mainstream in embedded systems development. Formal verification of behavioural requirements, finding runtime errors and automated test case generation are some of the most common applications of automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Peter Schrammel , Daniel Kroening , Martin Brain , Ruben Martins , Tino Teige , Tom Bienmüller

Correctness of results from mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) solvers is critical, particularly in the context of applications such as hardware verification, compiler optimization, or machine-assisted theorem proving. To this end,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kenan Wood , Runtian Zhou , Haoze Wu , Hammurabi Mendes , Jonad Pulaj

This paper is motivated by the increasing security concerns of cyber-physical systems. Here, we develop a discretization-free verification scheme targeting an information-flow security property, called approximate initial-state opacity, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Siyuan Liu , Majid Zamani