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Runtime monitoring is commonly used to detect the violation of desired properties in safety critical cyber-physical systems by observing its executions. Bauer et al. introduced an influential framework for monitoring Linear Temporal Logic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Corto Mascle , Daniel Neider , Maximilian Schwenger , Paulo Tabuada , Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and commonly occur when specifying information-flow and security policies. Logics like HyperLTL utilize explicit quantification over execution traces to express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

HyperLTL, the extension of Linear Temporal Logic by trace quantifiers, is a uniform framework for expressing information flow policies by relating multiple traces of a security-critical system. HyperLTL has been successfully applied to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Corto Mascle , Martin Zimmermann

Hyperproperties are properties of sets of computation traces. In this paper, we study quantitative hyperproperties, which we define as hyperproperties that express a bound on the number of traces that may appear in a certain relation. For…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Hazem Torfah

We study the reactive synthesis problem for hyperproperties given as formulas of the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties, i.e., sets of traces, to sets of sets of traces. Typical examples are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Philip Lukert , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

Bounded model checking (BMC) is an effective technique for hunting bugs by incrementally exploring the state space of a system. To reason about infinite traces through a finite structure and to ultimately obtain completeness, BMC…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tzu-Han Hsu , César Sánchez , Sarai Sheinvald , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

We introduce Hyper$^2$LTL, a temporal logic for the specification of hyperproperties that allows for second-order quantification over sets of traces. Unlike first-order temporal logics for hyperproperties, such as HyperLTL, Hyper$^2$LTL can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Niklas Metzger

We study satisfiability for HyperLTL with a $\forall^*\exists^*$ quantifier prefix, known to be highly undecidable in general. HyperLTL can express system properties that relate multiple traces (so-called hyperproperties), which are often…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Raven Beutner , David Carral , Bernd Finkbeiner , Jana Hofmann , Markus Krötzsch

Hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple computation traces with each other and are thus not monitorable by tools that consider computations in isolation. We present the monitoring approach…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

Hyperproperties relate multiple computation traces to each other. Model checkers for hyperproperties thus return, in case a system model violates the specification, a set of traces as a counterexample. Fixing the erroneous relations between…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Norine Coenen , Raimund Dachselt , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Christopher Hahn , Tom Horak , Niklas Metzger , Julian Siber

Hyperproperties allow one to specify properties of systems that inherently involve not single executions of the system, but several of them at once: observational determinism and non-inference are two examples of such properties used to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Samuel Graepler , Benjamin Monmege , Jean-Marc Talbot

HyperLTL model-checking enables the automated verification of information-flow properties for security-critical systems. However, it only provides a binary answer. Here, we introduce two paradigms to compute counterexamples and explanations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Sarah Winter , Martin Zimmermann

Two new logics for verification of hyperproperties are proposed. Hyperproperties characterize security policies, such as noninterference, as a property of sets of computation paths. Standard temporal logics such as LTL, CTL, and CTL* can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Michael R. Clarkson , Bernd Finkbeiner , Masoud Koleini , Kristopher K. Micinski , Markus N. Rabe , César Sánchez

System requirements related to concepts like information flow, knowledge, and robustness cannot be judged in terms of individual system executions, but rather require an analysis of the relationship between multiple executions. Such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Bernd Finkbeiner

We study the runtime verification of hyperproperties, expressed in the temporal logic HyperLTL, as a means to inspect a system with respect to security polices. Runtime monitors for hyperproperties analyze trace logs that are organized by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner

Hyperproperties are properties over sets of traces (or runs) of a system, as opposed to properties of just one trace. They were introduced in 2010 and have been much studied since, in particular via an extension of the temporal logic LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nicolas Waldburger , Chana Weil-Kennedy , Pierre Ganty , César Sánchez

Runtime verification enables checking temporal logic specifications over individual execution traces and offers a scalable alternative to exhaustive formal verification. In practice, systems must satisfy dozens to hundreds of temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arınç Demir , Dogan Ulus

Hypersafety properties of arity $n$ are program properties that relate $n$ traces of a program (or, more generally, traces of $n$ programs). Classic examples include determinism, idempotence, and associativity. A number of relational…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Emanuele D'Osualdo , Azadeh Farzan , Derek Dreyer

Hyperproperties are properties that refer to multiple computation traces. This includes many information-flow security policies, such as observational determinism, (generalized) noninterference, and noninference, and other system properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Tobias Hans

Hyperproperties are properties of systems that relate multiple computation traces, including security and concurrency properties. This paper introduces a bounded model checking (BMC) algorithm for hyperproperties expressed in HyperLTL,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Tzu-Han Hsu , Cesar Sanchez , Borzoo Bonakdarpour