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Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kezhi Li , Min Li , Xiangyu Wen , Shibo Zhao , Jieying Wu , Junhua Huang , Qiang Xu

Symbolic control problems aim to synthesize control policies for dynamical systems under complex temporal specifications. For such problems, Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is increasingly used as the formal specification language due to its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Shirantha Welikala , Hai Lin , Panos J. Antsaklis

As modern software systems grow in complexity and operate in dynamic environments, the need for runtime analysis techniques becomes a more critical part of the verification and validation process. Runtime verification monitors the runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cristina Stratan , Claudio Mandrioli , Domenico Bianculli

This paper focuses on the runtime verification of hyperproperties expressed in Hyper-recHML, an expressive yet simple logic for describing properties of sets of traces. To this end, we consider a simple language of monitors that observe…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Luca Aceto , Antonis Achilleos , Elli Anastasiadi , Adrian Francalanza , Daniele Gorla , Jana Wagemaker

We study the problem of monitoring at runtime whether a system fulfills a specification defined by a hyperproperty, such as linearizability or variants of non-interference. For this purpose, we introduce specifications with both passive and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Marek Chalupa , Thomas A. Henzinger , Ana Oliveira da Costa

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and commonly occur when specifying information-flow and security policies. Logics like HyperLTL utilize explicit quantification over execution traces to express…

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

We study monitoring of linear-time arithmetic properties against finite traces generated by an unknown dynamic system. The monitoring state is determined by considering at once the trace prefix seen so far, and all its possible…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Paolo Felli , Marco Montali , Fabio Patrizi , Sarah Winkler

Hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple computation traces with each other and are thus not monitorable by tools that consider computations in isolation. We present the monitoring approach…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

Runtime enforcement is a dynamic analysis technique that instruments a monitor with a system in order to ensure its correctness as specified by some property. This paper explores bidirectional enforcement strategies for properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Luca Aceto , Ian Cassar , Adrian Francalanza , Anna Ingolfsdottir

Adaptivity in multi-function radar systems is rapidly increasing, especially when moving towards fully adaptive, cognitive radar systems. However, the large number of available system configurations makes the rigorous verification and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Pepijn Cox , Mario Coutino , Giuseppe Papari , Ahmad Mouri Sardarabadi , Laura Anitori

Declarative process specifications define the behavior of processes by means of rules based on Linear Temporal Logic on Finite Traces (LTLf). In a mining context, these specifications are inferred from, and checked on, multi-sets of runs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Alessio Cecconi , Luca Barbaro , Claudio Di Ciccio , Arik Senderovich

In a software product line (SPL), a collection of software products is defined by their commonalities in terms of features rather than explicitly specifying all products one-by-one. Several verification techniques were adapted to establish…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Clemens Dubslaff , Sascha Klüppelholz , Christel Baier

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

Large-scale verifiable prompts underpin the success of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), but they contain many uninformative examples and are costly to expand further. Recent studies focus on better exploiting limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xin Xu , Clive Bai , Kai Yang , Tianhao Chen , Yangkun Chen , Weijie Liu , Hao Chen , Yang Wang , Saiyong Yang , Can Yang

Signal Temporal Logic monitoring over numerical simulation traces has emerged as an effective approach to approximate verification of continuous and hybrid systems. In this report we explore an exact verification procedure for STL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Thomas Wright , Ian Stark

In runtime verification, monitoring consists of analyzing the current execution of a system and determining, on the basis of the observed finite trace, whether all its possible continuations satisfy or violate a given specification. This is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Andrea Brunello , Luca Geatti , Angelo Montanari , Nicola Saccomanno

Autonomous vehicles are complex systems that are challenging to test and debug. A requirements-driven approach to the development process can decrease the resources required to design and test these systems, while simultaneously increasing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Cumhur Erkan Tuncali , Georgios Fainekos , Danil Prokhorov , Hisahiro Ito , James Kapinski

Property Specification Language (PSL) is a form of temporal logic that has been mainly used in discrete domains (e.g. formal hardware verification). In this paper, we show that by merging machine learning techniques with PSL monitors, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kevin Smith , Hai Lin , Praveen Tiwari , Marjorie Sayer , Claudionor Coelho

Vanilla Reinforcement Learning (RL) can efficiently solve complex tasks but does not provide any guarantees on system behavior. To bridge this gap, we propose a three-step safe RL procedure for continuous action spaces that provides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Hanna Krasowski , Prithvi Akella , Aaron D. Ames , Matthias Althoff

The emergence of compositional reasoning in large language models through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been a key driver of recent empirical successes. Despite this progress, it remains unclear which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Daniel Barzilai , Yotam Wolf , Ronen Basri