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The use of temporal logics has long been recognised as a fundamental approach to the formal specification and verification of reactive systems. In this paper, we take on the problem of automatically verifying a temporal property, given by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Tewodros A. Beyene , Corneliu Popeea , Andrey Rybalchenko

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

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and occur, e.g., when specifying security and information-flow properties. Checking if a hyperproperty is satisfiable has many important applications, such as…

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

In logics for the strategic reasoning the main challenge is represented by their verification in contexts of imperfect information and perfect recall. In this work, we show a technique to approximate the verification of Alternating-time…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Angelo Ferrando , Vadim Malvone

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

Hyperproperties are properties of systems that relate different executions traces, with many applications from security to symmetry, consistency models of concurrency, etc. In recent years, different linear-time logics for specifying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Laura Bozzelli , Adriano Peron , Cesar Sanchez

Model checking linear-time properties expressed in first-order logic has non-elementary complexity, and thus various restricted logical languages are employed. In this paper we consider two such restricted specification logics, linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Michael Benedikt , Rastislav Lenhardt , James Worrell

Many important hyperproperties, such as refinement and generalized non-interference, fall into the class of $\forall\exists$ hyperproperties and require, for each execution trace of a system, the existence of another trace relating to the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Arthur Correnson , Tobias Niessen , Bernd Finkbeiner , Georg Weissenbacher

Verification of temporal logic properties plays a crucial role in proving the desired behaviors of hybrid systems. In this paper, we propose an interval method for verifying the properties described by a bounded linear temporal logic. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Daisuke Ishii , Naoki Yonezaki , Alexandre Goldsztejn

We present team semantics for two of the most important linear and branching time specification languages, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and Computation Tree Logic (CTL). With team semantics, LTL is able to express hyperproperties, which have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema , Martin Zimmermann

Signal Temporal Logic monitoring over numerical simulation traces has emerged as an effective approach to approximate verification of continuous and hybrid systems. In this report we explore an exact verification procedure for STL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Thomas Wright , Ian Stark

The verification of asynchronous software components poses significant challenges due to the way components interleave and exchange input/output data concurrently. Compositional strategies aim to address this by separating the task of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alberto Bombardelli , Stefano Tonetta

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a specification language for finite sequences (called traces) widely used in program verification, motion planning in robotics, process mining, and many other areas. We consider the problem of learning LTL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Daniel Neider

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

Many important properties of multi-agent systems refer to the participants' ability to achieve a given goal, or to prevent the system from an undesirable event. Among intelligent agents, the goals are often of epistemic nature, i.e.,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Masoud Tabatabaei , Wojciech Jamroga

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is used in system verification to write formal specifications for reactive systems. However, some relevant properties, e.g. non-inference in information flow security, cannot be expressed in LTL. A class of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Juha Kontinen , Max Sandström , Jonni Virtema

Verification of large and complicated concurrent programs is an important issue in the software world. Stateless model checking is an appropriate method for systematically and automatically testing of large programs, which has proved its…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Elaheh Ghassabani , Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi

Inevitability properties in branching temporal logics are of the syntax forall eventually \phi, where \phi is an arbitrary (timed) CTL formula. In the sense that "good things will happen", they are parallel to the "liveness" properties in…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Farn Wang , Geng-Dian Hwang , Fang Yu

This paper concerns the verification of continuous-time polynomial spline trajectories against linear temporal logic specifications (LTL without 'next'). Each atomic proposition is assumed to represent a state space region described by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Daniel Selvaratnam , Michael Cantoni , J. M. Davoren , Iman Shames

We study the repair problem for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple computation traces. This class of properties includes information flow policies like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner