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Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a formal way of specifying complex objectives for planning problems modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). The planning problem aims to find the optimal policy that maximizes the satisfaction probability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zetong Xuan , Yu Wang

In this paper, we focus on formal synthesis of control policies for finite Markov decision processes with non-negative real-valued costs. We develop an algorithm to automatically generate a policy that guarantees the satisfaction of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Maria Svorenova , Ivana Cerna , Calin Belta

Human drivers naturally balance the risks of different concerns while driving, including traffic rule violations, minor accidents, and fatalities. However, achieving the same behavior in autonomous driving systems remains an open problem.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Shuhao Qi , Zengjie Zhang , Zhiyong Sun , Sofie Haesaert

Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation formalisms mainly characterised by constructors to build complex concepts and roles from atomic ones. Expressive role constructors are important in many applications, but can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Horrocks , Ulrike Sattler , Stephan Tobies

In this paper we consider the specification and verification of infinite-state systems using temporal logic. In particular, we describe parameterised systems using a new variety of first-order temporal logic that is both powerful enough for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Clare Dixon , Michael Fisher , Boris Konev , Alexei Lisitsa

We consider the problem of learning temporal logic formulas from examples of system behavior. Learning temporal properties has crystallized as an effective mean to explain complex temporal behaviors. Several efficient algorithms have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), that are a standard framework for robotics applications to model uncertainties present in the real world, with temporal logic specifications. All temporal logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin Chmelík , Raghav Gupta , Ayush Kanodia

We propose trace logic, an instance of many-sorted first-order logic, to automate the partial correctness verification of programs containing loops. Trace logic generalizes semantics of program locations and captures loop semantics by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Pamina Georgiou , Bernhard Gleiss , Laura Kovács

We combine quantified differential dynamic logic (QdL) for reasoning about the possible behavior of distributed hybrid systems with temporal logic for reasoning about the temporal behavior during their operation. Our logic supports…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Ping Hou

Definite descriptions are expressions of the form "the unique $x$ satisfying property $C$," which allow reference to objects through their distinguishing characteristics. They play a crucial role in ontology and query languages, offering an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Michał Sochański , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga , Michał Zawidzki

We present a hierarchical framework for analysing propositional linear-time temporal logic (PTL) to obtain standard results such as a small model property, decision procedures and axiomatic completeness. Both finite time and infinite time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ben Moszkowski

This paper introduces LTLF, a temporal logic designed to express the frequency properties of event series in a natural but rigorous manner. By introducing novel, measure-sensitive operators, LTLF allows for the evaluation of frequencies and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Melissa Antonelli , Leonardo Ceragioli , Alessandro Giuseppe Buda , Giuseppe Primiero

There has been substantial progress in the inference of formal behavioural specifications from sample trajectories, for example, using Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). However, these techniques cannot handle specifications that correctly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Rajarshi Roy , Yash Pote , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

In this note we consider the problem of introducing variables in temporal logic programs under the formalism of "Temporal Equilibrium Logic" (TEL), an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) for dealing with linear-time modal operators.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Felicidad Aguado , Pedro Cabalar , Martín Diéguez , Gilberto Pérez , Concepción Vidal

We show that Branching-time temporal logics CTL and CTL*, as well as Alternating-time temporal logics ATL and ATL*, are as semantically expressive in the language with a single propositional variable as they are in the full language, i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mikhail Rybakov , Dmitry Shkatov

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) and Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL) are prominent real-time extensions of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). In general, the satisfiability checking problem for these extensions is undecidable when both the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Khushraj Madnani , Manuel Mazo , Paritosh K. Pandya

Description Logics (DLs) are a family of knowledge representation formalisms mainly characterised by constructors to build complex concepts and roles from atomic ones. Expressive role constructors are important in many applications, but can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Horrocks , Ulrike Sattler , Stephan Tobies

We consider a general notion of timed automata with input-determined guards and show that they admit a robust logical framework along the lines of [D 'Souza03], in terms of a monadic second order logic characterisation and an expressively…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Deepak D'Souza , Nicolas Tabareau

To maximize the information gained from a single execution when verifying a concurrent system, one can derive all concurrency-aware equivalent executions and check them against linear specifications. This paper offers an alternative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Martin Leucker

In this paper, we consider the robot motion (or task) planning problem under some given time bounded high level specifications. We use metric interval temporal logic (MITL), a member of the temporal logic family, to represent the task…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras