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We address the problem of learning temporal properties from the branching-time behavior of systems. Existing research in this field has mostly focused on learning linear temporal properties specified using popular logics, such as Linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Benjamin Bordais , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

Predictive Process Monitoring is a branch of process mining that aims to predict the outcome of an ongoing process. Recently, it leveraged machine-and-deep learning architectures. In this paper, we extend our prior LLM-based Predictive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Alessandro Padella , Massimiliano de Leoni , Marlon Dumas

Modern complex software systems produce a large amount of execution data, often stored in logs. These logs can be analyzed using trace checking techniques to check whether the system complies with its requirements specifications. Often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic

We consider linear structural equation models with latent variables and develop a criterion to certify whether the direct causal effects between the observable variables are identifiable based on the observed covariance matrix. Linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Rina Foygel Barber , Mathias Drton , Nils Sturma , Luca Weihs

This paper explores the observability and estimation capability of dynamical systems using predominantly relative measurements of the system's state-space variables, with minimal to no reliance on absolute measurements of these variables.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ioannis Raptis

Networks model the architecture backbone of complex systems. The backbone itself can change over time leading to what is called `temporal networks'. Interpreting temporal networks as trajectories in graph space of a latent graph dynamics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Annalisa Caligiuri , Tobias Galla , Lucas Lacasa

HyperLTL is an extension of linear-time temporal logic for the specification of hyperproperties, i.e., temporal properties that relate multiple computation traces. HyperLTL can express information flow policies as well as properties like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Norine Coenen , Bernd Finkbeiner , César Sánchez , Leander Tentrup

We combine quantified differential dynamic logic (QdL) for reasoning about the possible behavior of distributed hybrid systems with temporal logic for reasoning about the temporal behavior during their operation. Our logic supports…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Ping Hou

Service-based applications are often developed as compositions of partner services. A service integrator needs precise methods to specify the quality attributes expected by each partner service, as well as effective techniques to verify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Domenico Bianculli , Carlo Ghezzi , Srdan Krstic , Pierluigi San Pietro

We address the problem of measuring inconsistency in declarative process specifications, with an emphasis on linear temporal logic on fixed traces (LTLff). As we will show, existing inconsistency measures for classical logic cannot provide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Carl Corea , John Grant , Matthias Thimm

Arguably, omega-regular languages play an important role as a specification formalism in many approaches to systems monitoring via runtime verification. However, since their elements are infinite words, not every omega-regular language can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-21 Andreas Bauer

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

Hypertrace logic is a sorted first-order logic with separate sorts for time and execution traces. Its formulas specify hyperproperties, which are properties relating multiple traces. In this work, we extend hypertrace logic by introducing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Marek Chalupa , Thomas A. Henzinger , Ana Oliveira da Costa

Motivated by the challenge presented by non-Markovian objectives in reinforcement learning (RL), we present a novel framework to track and represent the progress of autonomous agents through complex, multi-stage tasks. Given a specification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Noel Brindise , Cedric Langbort , Melkior Ornik

We study the satisfiability and model-checking problems for timed hyperproperties specified with HyperMTL, a timed extension of HyperLTL. Depending on whether interleaving of events in different traces is allowed, two possible semantics can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Hsi-Ming Ho , Ruoyu Zhou , Timothy M. Jones

We propose LeanLTL, a unifying framework for linear temporal logics in Lean 4. LeanLTL supports reasoning about traces that represent either infinite or finite linear time. The library allows traditional LTL syntax to be combined with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Eric Vin , Kyle A. Miller , Daniel J. Fremont

Temporal logic specifications play an important role in a wide range of software analysis tasks, such as model checking, automated synthesis, program comprehension, and runtime monitoring. Given a set of positive and negative examples,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Changjian Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Ian Dardik , Leyi Cui , Romulo Meira-Goes , David Garlan , Eunsuk Kang

We present a data-driven framework for strategy synthesis for partially-known switched stochastic systems. The properties of the system are specified using linear temporal logic (LTL) over finite traces (LTLf), which is as expressive as LTL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 John Jackson , Luca Laurenti , Eric Frew , Morteza Lahijanian

Traces and their extension called combined traces (comtraces) are two formal models used in the analysis and verification of concurrent systems. Both models are based on concepts originating in the theory of formal languages, and they are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Lukasz Mikulski

This paper presents a transformational approach for model checking two important classes of metric temporal logic (MTL) properties, namely, bounded response and minimum separation, for nonhierarchical object-oriented Real-Time Maude…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-23 Daniela Lepri , Peter Csaba Ölveczky , Erika Ábrahám