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Reactive synthesis aims at automatic construction of systems from their behavioural specifications. The research mostly focuses on synthesis of systems dealing with Boolean signals. But real-life systems are often described using…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Ayrat Khalimov , Benedikt Maderbacher , Roderick Bloem

The automatic synthesis of analog circuits presents significant challenges. Most existing approaches formulate the problem as a single-objective optimization task, overlooking that design specifications for a given circuit type vary widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxuan Hou , Hehe Fan , Jianrong Zhang , Yue Zhang , Hua Chen , Min Zhou , Faxin Yu , Roger Zimmermann , Yi Yang

Best-of-$N$ reasoning improves the accuracy of language models in solving complex tasks by sampling multiple candidate solutions and then selecting the best one based on some criteria. A critical bottleneck for this strategy is the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ly Tran Ho Khanh , Dongxuan Zhu , Man-Chung Yue , Viet Anh Nguyen

Accelerated discovery in materials science demands autonomous systems capable of dynamically formulating and solving design problems. In this work, we introduce a novel framework that leverages Bayesian optimization over a problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Danial Khatamsaz , Joseph Wagner , Brent Vela , Raymundo Arroyave , Douglas L. Allaire

We present an analysis technique for temporal specifications of reactive systems that identifies, on the level of individual system outputs over time, which parts of the implementation are determined by the specification, and which parts…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

We address the problem of diagnosing and repairing specifications for hybrid systems formalized in signal temporal logic (STL). Our focus is on the setting of automatic synthesis of controllers in a model predictive control (MPC) framework.…

In many synthesis problems, it can be essential to generate implementations which not only satisfy functional constraints but are also randomized to improve variety, robustness, or unpredictability. The recently-proposed framework of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Andreas Gittis , Eric Vin , Daniel J. Fremont

The work relates to the automatic generation of logical specifications, considered as sets of temporal logic formulas, extracted directly from developed software models. The extraction process is based on the assumption that the whole…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-06-27 Radoslaw Klimek

This paper presents a method for synthesizing a reactive program which coordinates the actions of a group of other reactive programs, so that the combined system satisfies a temporal specification of its desired long-term behavior.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Suguman Bansal , Kedar S. Namjoshi , Yaniv Sa'ar

Software system can include redundant implementation elements, such as, different methods that can produce indistinguishable results. This type of redundancy is called intrinsic if it is already available in the software, although not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Matteo Brunetto

This article introduces a fully automated verification technique that permits to analyze real-time systems described using a continuous notion of time and a mixture of operational (i.e., automata-based) and descriptive (i.e., logic-based)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

Compliance testing in highly regulated domains is crucial but largely manual, requiring domain experts to translate complex regulations into executable test cases. While large language models (LLMs) show promise for automation, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhiyi Xue , Xiaohong Chen , Min Zhang

Reactive synthesis is an automated procedure to obtain a correct-by-construction reactive system from a given specification. GR(1) is a well-known fragment of linear temporal logic (LTL) where synthesis is possible using a polynomial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Shahar Maoz , Jan Oliver Ringert

Scenario-based testing is an indispensable instrument for the comprehensive validation and verification of automated vehicles (AVs). However, finding a manageable and finite, yet representative subset of scenarios in a scalable, possibly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ferdinand Mütsch , Maximilian Zipfl , Nikolai Polley , J. Marius Zöllner

Today statecharts are a de facto standard in industry for modeling system behavior. Test data generation is one of the key issues in software testing. This paper proposes an reduction approach to test data generation for the state-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Ranjita Kumari Swain , Prafulla Kumar Behera , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems must often operate under uncertainties like sensor degradation and shifts in the operating conditions, which increases its operational risk. Dynamic Assurance of these systems requires designing runtime…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shreyas Ramakrishna , Baiting Luo , Yogesh Barve , Gabor Karsai , Abhishek Dubey

Often one has a preference order among the different systems that satisfy a given specification. Under a probabilistic assumption about the possible inputs, such a preference order is naturally expressed by a weighted automaton, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-15 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Thomas A. Henzinger , Barbara Jobstmann , Rohit Singh

Technological advances allow manufacturers to collect and access data from a production system effectively. The objective of data collection is to deploy the collected data in developing decision support systems for performance evaluation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Nima Manafzadeh Dizbin

Self-adaptive systems (SASs) are capable of adjusting its behavior in response to meaningful changes in the operational con-text and itself. The adaptation needs to be performed automatically through self-managed reactions and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Zhuoqun Yang , Zhi Jin , Zhi Li

The unrealizability of a specification is often due to the assumption that the behavior of the environment is unrestricted. In this paper, we present algorithms for synthesis in bounded environments, where the environment can only generate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah