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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

Large language model (LLM) agents often struggle in environments where rules and required domain knowledge frequently change, such as regulatory compliance and user risk screening. Current approaches, like offline fine-tuning and standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yufei He , Ruoyu Li , Alex Chen , Yue Liu , Yulin Chen , Yuan Sui , Cheng Chen , Yi Zhu , Luca Luo , Frank Yang , Bryan Hooi

Long-term autonomy requires autonomous systems to adapt as their capabilities no longer perform as expected. To achieve this, a system must first be capable of detecting such changes. In this position paper, we describe a system…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Peter Stringer , Rafael C. Cardoso , Xiaowei Huang , Louise A. Dennis

We present a verification methodology for analysing the decision-making component in agent-based hybrid systems. Traditionally hybrid automata have been used to both implement and verify such systems, but hybrid automata based modelling,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Louise A. Dennis , Michael Fisher , Nicholas K. Lincoln , Alexei Lisitsa , Sandor M. Veres

We introduce an autonomous multiagent framework for mechanistic interpretability that automates both explaining and finding internal features in large language models. The system runs two coupled loops: (1) explanation refinement, where an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Arnau Marin-Llobet , Javier Ferrando

Test and evaluation is a necessary process for ensuring that engineered systems perform as intended under a variety of conditions, both expected and unexpected. In this work, we consider the unique challenges of developing a unifying test…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Erin Lanus , Ivan Hernandez , Adam Dachowicz , Laura Freeman , Melanie Grande , Andrew Lang , Jitesh H. Panchal , Anthony Patrick , Scott Welch

Iterative LLM systems(self-refinement, chain-of-thought, autonomous agents) are increasingly deployed, yet their temporal dynamics remain uncharacterized. Prior work evaluates task performance at convergence but ignores the trajectory: how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Nicolas Tacheny

This work discusses how to build more rational language and multimodal agents and what criteria define rationality in intelligent systems. Rationality is the quality of being guided by reason, characterized by decision-making that aligns…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Bowen Jiang , Yangxinyu Xie , Xiaomeng Wang , Yuan Yuan , Zhuoqun Hao , Xinyi Bai , Weijie J. Su , Camillo J. Taylor , Tanwi Mallick

We study the problem of controlling multi-agent systems under a set of signal temporal logic tasks. Signal temporal logic is a formalism that is used to express time and space constraints for dynamical systems. Recent methods to solve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Agents are LLM-driven components that can mutate environments in powerful, arbitrary ways. Extracting guarantees for the execution of agents in production environments can be challenging due to asynchrony and failures. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mahesh Balakrishnan , Ashwin Bharambe , Davide Testuggine , David Geraghty , David Mao , Vidhya Venkat , Ilya Mironov , Rithesh Baradi , Gayathri Aiyer , Victoria Dudin

Model checking of strategic abilities is a notoriously hard problem, even more so in the realistic case of agents with imperfect information, acting in a stochastic environment. Assume-guarantee reasoning can be of great help here,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wojciech Jamroga , Damian Kurpiewski , Łukasz Mikulski

In this paper, we propose a single-agent modal logic framework for reasoning about goal-direct "knowing how" based on ideas from linguistics, philosophy, modal logic and automated planning. We first define a modal language to express "I…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Yanjing Wang

While reachability analysis is one of the most promising approaches for formal verification of dynamic systems, a major disadvantage preventing a more widespread application is the requirement to manually tune algorithm parameters such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak

Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering (TKGQA) is challenging because it requires multi-hop reasoning under complex temporal constraints. Recent LLM-based approaches have improved semantic modeling for this task, but many still rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xufei Lv , Jiahui Yang , Haoyuan Sun , Xialin Su , Zhiliang Tian , Yifu Gao , Linbo Qiao , Houde Liu

In multiagent systems autonomous agents interact with each other to achieve individual and collective goals. Typical interactions concern negotiation and agreement on resource exchanges. Modeling and formalizing these agreements pose…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lorenzo Ceragioli , Pierpaolo Degano , Letterio Galletta , Luca Viganò

Recently, we have proposed a framework for verification of agents' abilities in asynchronous multi-agent systems, together with an algorithm for automated reduction of models. The semantics was built on the modeling tradition of distributed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Wojciech Jamroga , Wojciech Penczek , Teofil Sidoruk

Artificial Intelligence is moving from models that only generate text to Agentic AI, where systems behave as autonomous entities that can perceive, reason, plan, and act. Large Language Models (LLMs) are no longer used only as passive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Arunkumar V , Gangadharan G. R. , Rajkumar Buyya

The temporal aspect is a significant dimension of our reality. We notice the challenge that large language models (LLMs) face when engaging in temporal reasoning. Our preliminary experiments show that methods involving the generation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xingxuan Li , Liying Cheng , Qingyu Tan , Hwee Tou Ng , Shafiq Joty , Lidong Bing

Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities in closed-world settings, they struggle in open-ended and…

This paper introduces operators, semantics, characterizations, and solution-independent conditions to guarantee temporal logic specifications for hybrid dynamical systems. Hybrid dynamical systems are given in terms of differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Hyejin Han , Ricardo G. Sanfelice