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We settle the complexity of satisfiability and model-checking for generalized HyperLTL with stuttering and contexts, an expressive logic for the specification of asynchronous hyperproperties. Such properties cannot be specified in HyperLTL,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Gaëtan Regaud , Martin Zimmermann

The satisfiability problem of the branching time logic CTL is studied in terms of computational complexity. Tight upper and lower bounds are provided for each temporal operator fragment. In parallel, the minimal model size is studied with a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Martin Lück

We consider the problem of monitoring a Linear Time Logic (LTL) specification that is defined on infinite paths, over finite traces. For example, we may need to draw a verdict on whether the system satisfies or violates the property "p…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Ezio Bartocci , Roderick Bloem , Dejan Nickovic , Franz Roeck

Model checking for real-timed systems is a rich and diverse topic. Among the different logics considered, Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) is a powerful and commonly used logic, which can succinctly encode many interesting timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 S. Akshay , Prerak Contractor , Paul Gastin , R. Govind , B. Srivathsan

Path checking, the special case of the model checking problem where the model under consideration is a single path, plays an important role in monitoring, testing, and verification. We prove that for linear-time temporal logic (LTL), path…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Lars Kuhtz , Bernd Finkbeiner

Probabilistic systems are an important theme in AI domain. As the specification language, the logic PCTL is now the default logic for reasoning about probabilistic properties. In this paper, we present a natural and succinct probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Wanwei Liu , Lei Song , Ji Wang , Lijun Zhang

The problem of model-checking hybrid systems is a long-time challenge in the scientific community. Most of the existing approaches and tools are either limited on the properties that they can verify, or restricted to simplified classes of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Davide Bresolin

The problem of checking a logged event trace against a temporal logic specification arises in many practical cases. Unfortunately, known algorithms for an expressive logic like MTL (Metric Temporal Logic) do not scale with respect to two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Marcello M. Bersani , Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic , Pierluigi San Pietro

Propositional Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a popular formalism for specifying desirable requirements and security and privacy policies for software, networks, and systems. Yet expressing such requirements and policies in LTL remains…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Priscilla Kyei Danso , Mohammad Saqib Hasan , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Omar Chowdhury

We study the model checking problem of Hyper2LTL over finite structures. Hyper2LTL is a second-order hyperlogic, that extends the well-studied logic HyperLTL by adding quantification over sets of traces, to express complex hyperproperties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Tim Rohde

We study frequency linear-time temporal logic (fLTL) which extends the linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with a path operator $G^p$ expressing that on a path, certain formula holds with at least a given frequency p, thus relaxing the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Vojtěch Forejt , Jan Krčál

For over a decade, researchers in formal methods tried to create formalisms that permit natural specification of systems and allow mathematical reasoning about their correctness. The availability of fully-automated reasoning tools enables…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-17 D. Paun , M. Chechik

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

Computation Tree Logic (CTL) and its extensions CTL* and CTL+ are widely used in automated verification as a basis for common model checking tools. But while they can express many properties of interest like reachability, even simple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Jens Oliver Gutsfeld , Markus Müller-Olm , Christian Dielitz

The verification of liveness conditions is an important aspect of state-based rigorous methods. This article investigates this problem in a fragment $\square$LTL of the logic LTL(EB), the integration of the UNTIL-fragment of Pnueli's linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Flavio Ferrarotti , Peter Rivière , Klaus-Dieter Schewe , Neeraj Kumar Singh , Yamine Aït Ameur

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a widely used specification framework for linear time properties of systems. The standard approach for verifying such properties is by transforming LTL formulae to suitable $\omega$-automata and then applying…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Martin Sulzmann , Peter Thiemann

We propose a parallel algorithm for local, on the fly, model checking of a fragment of CTL that is well-suited for modern, multi-core architectures. This model-checking algorithm takes bene t from a parallel state space construction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Rodrigo Tacla Saad , Silvano Dal Zilio , Bernard Berthomieu

We show that the model-checking problem is decidable for a fragment of the epistemic \mu-calculus. The fragment allows free variables within the scope of epistemic modalities in a restricted form that avoids constructing formulas embodying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Rodica Bozianu , Cătălin Dima , Constantin Enea

Hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple system executions to each other. They are not expressible in standard temporal logics, like LTL, CTL, and CTL*, and thus cannot be monitored with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

Model checking verifies that a model of a system satisfies a given property, and otherwise produces a counter-example explaining the violation. The verified properties are formally expressed in temporal logics. Some temporal logics, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Simon Busard , Charles Pecheur