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Security protocols are used in many of our daily-life applications, and our privacy largely depends on their design. Formal verification techniques have proved their usefulness to analyse these protocols, but they become so complex that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Myrto Arapinis , Vincent Cheval , Stéphanie Delaune

We introduce a novel logic for asynchronous hyperproperties with a new mechanism to identify relevant positions on traces. While the new logic is more expressive than a related logic presented recently by Bozzelli et al., we obtain the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jens Oliver Gutsfeld , Markus Müller-Olm , Christoph Ohrem

Temporal logics for hyperproperties like HyperLTL use trace quantifiers to express properties that relate multiple system runs. In practice, the verification of such specifications is mostly limited to formulas without quantifier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Program safety (i.e., absence of undefined behaviors) is critical for correct operation of computer systems. It is usually verified at the source level (e.g., by separation logics) and preserved to the target by verified compilers (e.g.,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jinhua Wu , Yuting Wang , Liukun Yu , Linglong Meng

We propose an automated verification technique for hypersafety properties, which express sets of valid interrelations between multiple finite runs of a program. The key observation is that constructing a proof for a small representative set…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Azadeh Farzan , Anthony Vandikas

The integration of neural networks into safety-critical systems has shown great potential in recent years. However, the challenge of effectively verifying the safety of Neural Network Controlled Systems (NNCS) persists. This paper…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yuhao Zhou , Stavros Tripakis

We consider the problem of how to verify the security of probabilistic oblivious algorithms formally and systematically. Unfortunately, prior program logics fail to support a number of complexities that feature in the semantics and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pengbo Yan , Toby Murray , Olga Ohrimenko , Van-Thuan Pham , Robert Sison

This paper develops an assume-guarantee (AG) framework for the compositional verification of probabilistic automata (PAs) with uncertain transition probabilities. We study parametric probabilistic automata (pPAs), where probabilities are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hannah Mertens , Tim Quatmann , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Matching logic is a logical framework for specifying and reasoning about programs using pattern matching semantics. A pattern is made up of a number of structural components and constraints. Structural components are syntactically matched,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ádám Kurucz , Péter Bereczky , Dániel Horpácsi

Properties such as provable security and correctness for randomized programs are naturally expressed relationally as approximate equivalences. As a result, a number of relational program logics have been developed to reason about such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Philipp G. Haselwarter , Kwing Hei Li , Alejandro Aguirre , Simon Oddershede Gregersen , Joseph Tassarotti , Lars Birkedal

This paper presents a language-independent proof system for reachability properties of programs written in non-deterministic (e.g., concurrent) languages, referred to as all-path reachability logic. It derives partial-correctness properties…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Andrei Stefanescu , Stefan Ciobaca , Radu Mereuta , Brandon Moore , Traian Florin Serbanuta , Grigore Rosu

Designing scalable concurrent objects, which can be efficiently used on multicore processors, often requires one to abandon standard specification techniques, such as linearizability, in favor of more relaxed consistency requirements.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Ilya Sergey , Aleksandar Nanevski , Anindya Banerjee , German Andres Delbianco

Many natural program correctness properties can be stated in terms of symmetries, but existing formal methods have little support for reasoning about such properties. We consider how to formally verify a broad class of symmetry properties…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Vaibhav Mehta , Justin Hsu

Formal languages are in the core of models of computation and their behavior. A rich family of models for many classes of languages have been widely studied. Hyperproperties lift conventional trace-based languages from a set of execution…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sarai Sheinvald

Program sensitivity, also known as Lipschitz continuity, describes how small changes in a program's input lead to bounded changes in the output. We propose an average notion of program sensitivity for probabilistic programs---expected…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Gilles Barthe , Thomas Espitau , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub

In runtime verification, pattern matching, which searches for occurrences of a specific pattern within a word, provides more information than a simple violation detection of the monitored property, by locating concrete evidence of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Masaki Waga , Étienne André

Data complexity is an important concept in the natural sciences and related areas, but lacks a rigorous and computable definition. In this paper, we focus on a particular sense of complexity that is high if the data is structured in a way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Louis Mahon

We propose a new simple \emph{trace} logic that can be used to specify \emph{local security properties}, i.e. security properties that refer to a single participant of the protocol specification. Our technique allows a protocol designer to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ricardo Corin , Antonio Durante , Sandro Etalle , Pieter Hartel

Recent years have witnessed the rise of compositional semantics as a foundation for formal verification of complex systems. In particular, interaction trees have emerged as a popular denotational semantics. Interaction trees achieve…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Amir Mohammad Fadaei Ayyam , Michael Sammler

A supercongruence is a congruence between rational numbers modulo a power of a prime. In this paper, we give a technique for finding and algorithmically proving supercongruences by expressing terms as infinite series involving certain…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Julian Rosen