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Adding propositional quantification to the modal logics K, T or S4 is known to lead to undecidability but CTL with propositional quantification under the tree semantics (tQCTL) admits a non-elementary Tower-complete satisfiability problem.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Stéphane Demri

Max-Plus Linear (MPL) systems are an algebraic formalism with practical applications in transportation networks, manufacturing and biological systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatically analyzing the properties of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Muhammad Syifa'ul Mufid , Andrea Micheli , Alessandro Abate , Alessandro Cimatti

The expressiveness of Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) has been extensively studied throughout the last two decades. In particular, it has been shown that the \emph{interval-based} semantics of MTL is strictly more expressive than the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohammed Aristide Foughali

Previous work has shown that reasoning with real-time temporal logics is often simpler when restricted to models with bounded variability---where no more than v events may occur every V time units, for given v, V. When reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Carlo A. Furia , Paola Spoletini

Parametric timed automata extend timed automata (Alur and Dill, 1991) in that they allow the specification of parametric bounds on the clock values. Since their introduction in 1993 by Alur, Henzinger, and Vardi, it is known that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Karin Quaas

It is well known that (timed) $\omega$-regular properties such as `p holds at every even position' and `p occurs at least three times within the next 10 time units' cannot be expressed in Metric Interval Temporal Logic ($\mathsf{MITL}$) and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Hsi-Ming Ho

Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) is a popular formalism for specifying properties of reactive systems with timing constraints. Existing approaches to using MITL in verification tasks, however, have notable drawbacks: they either…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hsi-Ming Ho , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Khushraj Madnani , Rupak Majumdar , Paritosh Pandya

We provide a dynamic programming algorithm for the monitoring of a fragment of Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL) specifications. This fragment of TPTL, which is more expressive than Metric Temporal Logic, is characterized by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Adel Dokhanchi , Bardh Hoxha , Cumhur Erkan Tuncali , Georgios Fainekos

Interval Temporal Logic (ITL) is an established temporal formalism for reasoning about time periods. For over 25 years, it has been applied in a number of ways and several ITL variants, axiom systems and tools have been investigated. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ben Moszkowski

Satisfiability checking for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a fundamental step in checking for possible errors in LTL assertions. Extant LTL satisfiability checkers use a variety of different search procedures. With the sole exception of LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Jianwen Li , Geguang Pu , Lijun Zhang , Moshe Y. Vardi , Jifeng He

The problem of checking a logged event trace against a temporal logic specification arises in many practical cases. Unfortunately, known algorithms for an expressive logic like MTL (Metric Temporal Logic) do not scale with respect to two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Marcello M. Bersani , Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic , Pierluigi San Pietro

Given a formula in a temporal logic such as LTL or MTL, a fundamental problem is the complexity of evaluating the formula on a given finite word. For LTL, the complexity of this task was recently shown to be in NC. In this paper, we present…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Daniel Bundala , Joël Ouaknine

Ability to count number of occurrences of events within a specified time interval is very useful in specification of resource bounded real time computation. In this paper, we study an extension of Metric Temporal Logic ($\mathsf{MTL}$) with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Khushraj Madnani , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Paritosh Pandya

Temporal logics for the specification of information-flow properties are able to express relations between multiple executions of a system. The two most important such logics are HyperLTL and HyperCTL*, which generalise LTL and CTL* by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Marie Fortin , Louwe B. Kuijer , Patrick Totzke , Martin Zimmermann

We study the realizability problem for Safety LTL, the syntactic fragment of Linear Temporal Logic capturing safe formulas. We show that the problem is EXP-complete, disproving the existing conjecture of 2EXP-completeness. We achieve this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Noel Arteche , Montserrat Hermo

Constraint LTL, a generalisation of LTL over Presburger constraints, is often used as a formal language to specify the behavior of operational models with constraints. The freeze quantifier can be part of the language, as in some real-time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stéphane Demri , Ranko Lazic , David Nowak

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

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

The paper studies problems of satisfiability, decidability and admissibility of inference rules, conceptions of knowledge and agent's knowledge in non-transitive temporal linear logic LTL(Past,m). We find algorithms solving mentioned…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Vladimir Rybakov

We investigate the satisfaction of specifications in Prompt Linear Temporal Logic (Prompt-LTL) by concurrent systems. Prompt-LTL is an extension of LTL that allows to specify parametric bounds on the satisfaction of eventualities, thus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Swen Jacobs , Mouhammad Sakr , Martin Zimmermann