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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

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

HyperLTL is an extension of linear-time temporal logic for the specification of hyperproperties, i.e., temporal properties that relate multiple computation traces. HyperLTL can express information flow policies as well as properties like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Norine Coenen , Bernd Finkbeiner , César Sánchez , Leander Tentrup

Hyperproperties have shown to be a powerful tool for expressing and reasoning about information-flow security policies. In this paper, we investigate the problem of statistical model checking (SMC) for hyperproperties. Unlike exhaustive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Yu Wang , Siddhartha Nalluri , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Miroslav Pajic

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 a modern specification paradigm that extends trace properties to express properties of sets of traces. Temporal logics for hyperproperties studied in the literature, including HyperLTL, assume a synchronous semantics and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Laura Bozzelli , Adriano Peron , Cesar Sanchez

We present two novel symbolic algorithms for model checking the Alternating-time Temporal Logic ATL*, over both the infinite-trace and the finite-trace semantics. In particular, for infinite traces we design a novel symbolic reduction to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sofia Garcia de Blas Garcia-Alcalde , Francesco Belardinelli

Hyperproperties enable simultaneous reasoning about multiple execution traces of a system and are useful to reason about non-interference, opacity, robustness, fairness, observational determinism, etc. We introduce hyper parametric timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Masaki Waga , Étienne André

Temporal hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces. For (finite-state) hardware, temporal hyperproperties are supported by model checking algorithms, and tools for general temporal logics like HyperLTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Security properties of real-time systems often involve reasoning about hyper-properties, as opposed to properties of single executions or trees of executions. These hyper-properties need to additionally be expressive enough to reason about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nabarun Deka , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

We introduce a functional inductive framework to verify discrete-time dynamical systems against hyperproperties specified as Hyperlinear temporal logic formulae via a notion of HyperCertificates. Unlike linear temporal logic (LTL) formulae…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishnu Murali , Amin Falah , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Probabilistic hyperproperties express probabilistic relations between different executions of systems with uncertain behavior. HyperPCTL allows to formalize such properties, where quantification over probabilistic schedulers resolves…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Lina Gerlach , Oyendrila Dobe , Erika Ábrahám , Ezio Bartocci , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

HyperLTL is a temporal logic that can express hyperproperties, i.e., properties that relate multiple execution traces of a system. Such properties are becoming increasingly important and naturally occur, e.g., in information-flow control,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

We investigate the logical foundations of hyperproperties. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties, which are sets of traces, to sets of sets of traces. The most prominent application of hyperproperties is information flow security:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Bernd Finkbeiner , Martin Zimmermann

Non-deterministic planning aims to find a policy that achieves a given objective in an environment where actions have uncertain effects, and the agent - potentially - only observes parts of the current state. Hyperproperties are properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

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

A specification given as a formula in linear temporal logic (LTL) defines a system by its set of traces. However, certain features such as information flow security constraints are rather modeled as so-called hyperproperties, which are sets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Martin Lück

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

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

Some multi-agent scenarios call for the possibility of evaluating specifications in a richer domain of truth values. Examples include runtime monitoring of a temporal property over a growing prefix of an infinite path, inconsistency…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wojciech Jamroga , Beata Konikowska , Damian Kurpiewski , Wojciech Penczek