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Temporal logic is a very powerful formalism deeply investigated and used in formal system design and verification. Its application usually reduces to solving specific decision problems such as model checking and satisfiability. In these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Gaëlle Fontaine , Fabio Mogavero , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Loredana Sorrentino

It is known [DemriSchnoebelen02] that both satisfiability and model-checking problems for propositional Linear-time Temporal Logic, LTL, with only a single propositional variable in the language are PSPACE-complete, which coincides with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Mikhail Rybakov , Dmitry Shkatov

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) and Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL) extend Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) for real-time constraints, with MTL using time-bounded modalities and TPTL employing freeze quantifiers. Satisfiability for both is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Khushraj Madnani , Agnipratim Nag , Paritosh Pandya

We classify the complexity of the LTL satisfiability and model checking problems for several standard parameterisations. The investigated parameters are temporal depth, number of propositional variables and formula treewidth, resp.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Martin Lück , Arne Meier

The two major systems of formal verification are model checking and algebraic model-based testing. Model checking is based on some form of temporal logic such as linear temporal logic (LTL) or computation tree logic (CTL). One powerful and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Stefan D. Bruda , Sunita Singh , A. F. M. Nokib Uddin , Zhiyu Zhang , Rui Zuo

Runtime verification encompasses several lightweight techniques for checking whether a system's current execution satisfies a given specification. We focus on runtime verification for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Previous work describes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Javier Esparza , Vincent Fischer

In this paper, we study the model-checking and parameter synthesis problems of the logic TCTL over discrete-timed automata where parameters are allowed both in the model (timed automaton) and in the property (temporal formula). Our results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Veronique Bruyere , Jean-Francois Raskin

This paper revisits the classical notion of sampling in the setting of real-time temporal logics for the modeling and analysis of systems. The relationship between the satisfiability of Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) formulas over…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Rossi

Temporal Equilibrium Logic (TEL) is a promising framework that extends the knowledge representation and reasoning capabilities of Answer Set Programming with temporal operators in the style of LTL. To our knowledge it is the first…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Laura Bozzelli , David Pearce

Constant-rate multi-mode systems (MMS) are hybrid systems with finitely many modes and real-valued variables that evolve over continuous time according to mode-specific constant rates. We introduce a variant of linear temporal logic (LTL)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Michael Blondin , Philip Offtermatt , Alex Sansfaçon-Buchanan

Freeze LTL is a temporal logic with registers that is suitable for specifying properties of data words. In this paper we study the model checking problem for Freeze LTL on one-counter automata. This problem is known to be undecidable in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Antonia Lechner , Richard Mayr , Joël Ouaknine , Amaury Pouly , James Worrell

In this paper we initiate the study of the computational complexity of learning linear temporal logic (LTL) formulas from examples. We construct approximation algorithms for fragments of LTL and prove hardness results; in particular we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Guillaume Lagarde

Timed automata (TAs) are a common formalism for modeling timed systems. Bounded model checking (BMC) is a verification method that searches for runs violating a property using a SAT or SMT solver. MITL is a real-time extension of the linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Roland Kindermann , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

We continue the investigation of parameterized extensions of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) that retain the attractive algorithmic properties of LTL: a polynomial space model checking algorithm and a doubly-exponential time algorithm for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Martin Zimmermann

This paper studies Linear Temporal Logic over Finite Traces (LTLf) where proposition letters are replaced with first-order formulas interpreted over arbitrary theories, in the spirit of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. The resulting logic,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante

The expressive power of interval temporal logics (ITLs) makes them one of the most natural choices in a number of application domains, ranging from the specification and verification of complex reactive systems to automated planning.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Laura Bozzelli , Alberto Molinari , Angelo Montanari , Adriano Peron , Pietro Sala

Standpoint linear temporal logic SLTL is a recent formalism able to model possibly conflicting commitments made by distinct agents, taking into account aspects of temporal reasoning. In this paper, we analyse the computational properties of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Stéphane Demri , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga

We present a novel asynchronous hyper linear time temporal logic named LPrL (Linear Time Predicate Logic) and establish its basic theory. LPrL is a natural first order extension of LTL (Linear time temporal logic), in which the predicates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Parasara Sridhar Duggirala , P. S. Thiagarajan

Graded path modalities count the number of paths satisfying a property, and generalize the existential (E) and universal (A) path modalities of CTL*. The resulting logic is called GCTL*. We settle the complexity of satisfiability of GCTL*,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Benjamin Aminof , Aniello Murano , Sasha Rubin

We determine the complexity of second-order HyperLTL satisfiability, finite-state satisfiability, and model-checking: All three are equivalent to truth in third-order arithmetic. We also consider two fragments of second-order HyperLTL that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hadar Frenkel , Gaëtan Regaud , Martin Zimmermann