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Propositional Projection Temporal Logic (PPTL) is a useful formalism for reasoning about period of time in hardware and software systems and can handle both sequential and parallel compositions. In this paper, based on discrete time Markov…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-08 Xiaoxiao Yang

We present a method for the automated verification of temporal properties of infinite state systems. Our verification method is based on the specialization of constraint logic programs (CLP) and works in two phases: (1) in the first phase,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Fabio Fioravanti , Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti , Valerio Senni

The paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of continuous-time switched stochastic systems. Our goal is to find the lower bound on the probability that a complex temporal property is satisfied over a finite time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Mahathi Anand , Pushpak Jagtap , Majid Zamani

We study pure-strategy Nash equilibria in multi-player concurrent deterministic games, for a variety of preference relations. We provide a novel construction, called the suspect game, which transforms a multi-player concurrent game into a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Patricia Bouyer , Romain Brenguier , Nicolas Markey , Michael Ummels

We study a model of temporal voting where there is a fixed time horizon, and at each round the voters report their preferences over the available candidates and a single candidate is selected. Prior work has adapted popular notions of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Edith Elkind , Svetlana Obraztsova , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

This paper deals with model checking problems with respect to LTL properties under fairness assumptions. We first present an efficient algorithm to deal with a fragment of fairness assumptions and then extend the algorithm to handle…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Yong Li , Lei Song , Yuan Feng , Lijun Zhang

We present a variant of ATL with distributed knowledge operators based on a synchronous and perfect recall semantics. The coalition modalities in this logic are based on partial observation of the full history, and incorporate a form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Cătălin Dima , Constantin Enea , Dimitar Guelev

The problem of finding pure strategy Nash equilibria in multiagent concurrent games with finite-horizon temporal goals has received some recent attention. Earlier work solved this problem through the use of Rabin automata. In this work, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Senthil Rajasekaran , Moshe Y. Vardi

Determining an individual's strategic reasoning capability based solely on choice data is a complex task. This complexity arises because sophisticated players might have non-equilibrium beliefs about others, leading to non-equilibrium…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-04 Wei James Chen , Meng-Jhang Fong , Po-Hsuan Lin

This paper addresses the problem of improving response times of robots implemented in the Robotic Operating System (ROS) using formal verification of computational-time feasibility. In order to verify the real time behaviour of a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Mohammed Y. Hazim , Hongyang Qu , Sandor M. Veres

Alternating-time temporal logic (ATL) allows to specify requirements on abilities that different agents should (or should not) possess in a multi-agent system. However, model checking ATL specifications in realistic systems is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wojciech Jamroga , Michał Knapik , Damian Kurpiewski

It is crucial for accurate model checking that the model be a complete and faithful representation of the system. Unfortunately, this is not always possible, mainly because of two reasons: (i) the model is still under development and (ii)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shiraj Arora , M. V. Panduranga Rao

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are integrated into critical real-world applications, their strategic and logical reasoning abilities are increasingly crucial. This paper evaluates LLMs' reasoning abilities in competitive environments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jinhao Duan , Renming Zhang , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Lichao Sun , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal , Tianlong Chen , Kaidi Xu

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

Probabilistic systems are an important theme in AI domain. As the specification language, the logic PCTL is now the default logic for reasoning about probabilistic properties. In this paper, we present a natural and succinct probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Wanwei Liu , Lei Song , Ji Wang , Lijun Zhang

We present an efficient algorithm to compute the explicit open-loop solution to both finite and infinite-horizon dynamic games subject to state and input constraints. Our approach relies on a multiparametric affine variational inequality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Emilio Benenati , Giuseppe Belgioioso

Game theory, as an analytical tool, is frequently utilized to analyze human behavior in social science research. With the high alignment between the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) and humans, a promising research direction is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Caoyun Fan , Jindou Chen , Yaohui Jin , Hao He

The use of temporal logics has long been recognised as a fundamental approach to the formal specification and verification of reactive systems. In this paper, we take on the problem of automatically verifying a temporal property, given by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Tewodros A. Beyene , Corneliu Popeea , Andrey Rybalchenko

Model-checking HyperLTL, a temporal logic expressing properties of sets of traces with applications to information-flow based security and privacy, has a decidable, but TOWER-complete, model-checking problem. While the classical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sarah Winter , Martin Zimmermann

Possibilistic computation tree Logic (PoCTL) is one kind of branching temporal logic combined with uncertain information in possibility theory, which was introduced in order to cope with the systematic verification on systems with uncertain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yongming Li