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Generalized Reactivity(1) (GR(1)) synthesis is a reactive synthesis approach in which the specification is split into two parts: a symbolic game graph, describing the safe transitions of a system, a liveness specification in a subset of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Rüdiger Ehlers , Ayrat Khalimov

We introduce skipping refinement, a new notion of correctness for reasoning about optimized reactive systems. Reasoning about reactive systems using refinement involves defining an abstract, high-level specification system and a concrete,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Mitesh Jain , Panagiotis Manolios

This article presents resource-guided synthesis, a technique for synthesizing recursive programs that satisfy both a functional specification and a symbolic resource bound. The technique is type-directed and rests upon a novel type system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Tristan Knoth , Di Wang , Nadia Polikarpova , Jan Hoffmann

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

Being able to provide counterfactual interventions - sequences of actions we would have had to take for a desirable outcome to happen - is essential to explain how to change an unfavourable decision by a black-box machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Giovanni De Toni , Bruno Lepri , Andrea Passerini

When a model makes a consequential decision, e.g., denying someone a loan, it needs to additionally generate actionable, realistic feedback on what the person can do to favorably change the decision. We cast this problem through the lens of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Goutham Ramakrishnan , Yun Chan Lee , Aws Albarghouthi

This paper addresses the synthesis of reactive systems that enforce hard constraints while optimizing for quality-based soft constraints. We build on recent advancements in combining reactive synthesis with example-based guidance to handle…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jean-François Raskin , Yun Chen Tsai

Rewriting logic is naturally concurrent: several subterms of the state term can be rewritten simultaneously. But state terms are global, which makes compositionality difficult to achieve. Compositionality here means being able to decompose…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Óscar Martín , Alberto Verdejo , Narciso Martí-Oliet

Reactive synthesis is a class of methods to construct a provably-correct control system, referred to as a robot, with respect to a temporal logic specification in the presence of a dynamic and uncontrollable environment. This is achieved by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu

The synthesis of infinite-state reactive systems from temporal logic specifications or infinite-state games has attracted significant attention in recent years, leading to the emergence of novel solving techniques. Most approaches are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

We propose a method to synthesize a parameterized infinite-state systems that can be instantiated for different parameter values. The specification is given in a parameterized temporal logic that allows for data variables as well as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Benedikt Maderbacher , Roderick Bloem

Spectra is a new specification language for reactive systems, specifically tailored for the context of reactive synthesis. The meaning of Spectra is defined by a translation to a kernel language. Spectra comes with the Spectra Tools, a set…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Shahar Maoz , Jan Oliver Ringert

We propose Teamwork Synthesis, a version of the distributed synthesis problem with application to teamwork multi-agent systems. We reformulate the distributed synthesis question by dropping the fixed interaction architecture among agents as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Nir Piterman

Program synthesis is the process of automatically translating a specification into computer code. Traditional synthesis settings require a formal, precise specification. Motivated by computer education applications where a student learns to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Evan Hernandez , Ara Vartanian , Xiaojin Zhu

Program synthesis is a class of regression problems where one seeks a solution, in the form of a source-code program, mapping the inputs to their corresponding outputs exactly. Due to its precise and combinatorial nature, program synthesis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Yewen Pu , Zachery Miranda , Armando Solar-Lezama , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Timed regular expressions serve as a formalism for specifying real-time behaviors of Cyber-Physical Systems. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of timed regular expressions, focusing on generating a timed regular expression consistent…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Ziran Wang , Jie An , Naijun Zhan , Miaomiao Zhang , Zhenya Zhang

Reactive synthesis supports designers by automatically constructing correct hardware from declarative specifications. Synthesis algorithms usually compute a strategy, and then construct a circuit that implements it. In this work, we study…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Roderick Bloem , Uwe Egly , Patrick Klampfl , Robert Koenighofer , Florian Lonsing

We report on the design and results of the second reactive synthesis competition (SYNTCOMP 2015). We describe our extended benchmark library, with 6 completely new sets of benchmarks, and additional challenging instances for 4 of the…

The unrealizability of a specification is often due to the assumption that the behavior of the environment is unrestricted. In this paper, we present algorithms for synthesis in bounded environments, where the environment can only generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

In this paper, a library-based synthesis methodology for reversible circuits is proposed where a reversible specification is considered as a permutation comprising a set of cycles. To this end, a pre-synthesis optimization step is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Mehdi Saeedi , Mehdi Sedighi , Morteza Saheb Zamani