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Mechanized verification of liveness properties for infinite programs with effects and nondeterminism is challenging. Existing temporal reasoning frameworks operate at the level of models such as traces and automata. Reasoning happens at a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Eleftherios Ioannidis , Yannick Zakowski , Steve Zdancewic , Sebastian Angel

We show how to add and eliminate binary preference on plays in Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL) with strategy contexts on Concurrent Game Models (CGMs) by means of a translation which preserves satisfaction in models where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Dimitar P. Guelev

Explainability is emerging as a key requirement for autonomous systems. While many works have focused on what constitutes a valid explanation, few have considered formalizing explainability as a system property. In this work, we approach…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bernd Finkbeiner , Julian Siber

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

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

Verification of temporal logic properties plays a crucial role in proving the desired behaviors of continuous systems. In this paper, we propose an interval method that verifies the properties described by a bounded signal temporal logic.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Daisuke Ishii , Naoki Yonezaki , Alexandre Goldsztejn

The satisfiability problem for branching-time temporal logics like CTL*, CTL and CTL+ has important applications in program specification and verification. Their computational complexities are known: CTL* and CTL+ are complete for doubly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Oliver Friedmann , Martin Lange , Markus Latte

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

Alternating-time temporal logic with strategy contexts (ATLsc) is a powerful formalism for expressing properties of multi-agent systems: it extends CTL with strategy quantifiers, offering a convenient way of expressing both collaboration…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-25 François Laroussinie , Nicolas Markey , Arnaud Sangnier

We develop game-theoretic semantics (GTS) for the fragment ATL+ of the full Alternating-time Temporal Logic ATL*, essentially extending a recently introduced GTS for ATL. We first show that the new game-theoretic semantics is equivalent to…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Valentin Goranko , Antti Kuusisto , Raine Rönnholm

Hyperparameter selection is a critical step in the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models, particularly in the current era of foundational, pre-trained, models. By framing hyperparameter selection as a multiple hypothesis testing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Amirmohammad Farzaneh , Osvaldo Simeone

In this paper, we present a mechanism for building hybrid system observers to differentiate between specific positions of the hybrid system. The mechanism is designed through inferring metric temporal logic (MTL) formulae from simulated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Zhe Xu , Yi Deng , Agung Julius

A bitmap is a data structure designed to compactly represent sets of integers; it provides very fast operations for querying and manipulating such sets, exploiting bit-level parallelism. In this paper, we describe a technique for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Kun Xie , Sylvain Hallé

We propose algorithms for performing model checking and control synthesis for discrete-time uncertain systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. We construct temporal logic trees (TLT) from LTL formulae via reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Yulong Gao , Alessandro Abate , Frank J. Jiang , Mirco Giacobbe , Lihua Xie , Karl H. Johansson

Model checking of strategic abilities is a notoriously hard problem, even more so in the realistic case of agents with imperfect information, acting in a stochastic environment. Assume-guarantee reasoning can be of great help here,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wojciech Jamroga , Damian Kurpiewski , Łukasz Mikulski

Runtime verification of temporal properties is essential for ensuring the correctness and reliability of real-time systems, particularly in cyber-physical systems. A significant challenge in this domain is the effective prediction of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Alessandro Cimatti , Thomas M. Grosen , Kim G. Larsen , Stefano Tonetta , Martin Zimmermann

Counterfactual explanations are one of the prominent eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques, and suggest changes to input data that could alter predictions, leading to more favourable outcomes. Existing counterfactual methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Andrei Buliga , Chiara Di Francescomarino , Chiara Ghidini , Marco Montali , Massimiliano Ronzani

We propose a logical framework combining a game-theoretic study of abilities of agents to achieve quantitative objectives in multi-player games by optimizing payoffs or preferences on outcomes with a logical analysis of the abilities of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Nils Bulling , Valentin Goranko

Probabilistic programs are a powerful and convenient approach to formalise distributions over system executions. A classical verification problem for probabilistic programs is temporal inference: to compute the likelihood that the execution…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Kazuki Watanabe , Sebastian Junges , Jurriaan Rot , Ichiro Hasuo

Estimating the performance of a machine learning system is a longstanding challenge in artificial intelligence research. Today, this challenge is especially relevant given the emergence of systems which appear to increasingly outperform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Qiongkai Xu , Christian Walder , Chenchen Xu