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Hyperproperties are properties that relate multiple execution traces. Previous work on monitoring hyperproperties focused on synchronous hyperproperties, usually specified in HyperLTL. When monitoring synchronous hyperproperties, all traces…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Marek Chalupa , Thomas A. Henzinger

A novel, scalable, on-the-fly model-checking procedure is presented to verify bounded PCTL properties of selected individuals in the context of very large systems of independent interacting objects. The proposed procedure combines…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Diego Latella , Michele Loreti , Mieke Massink

Runtime monitoring is commonly used to detect the violation of desired properties in safety critical cyber-physical systems by observing its executions. Bauer et al. introduced an influential framework for monitoring Linear Temporal Logic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Corto Mascle , Daniel Neider , Maximilian Schwenger , Paulo Tabuada , Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann

Mission-time Linear Temporal Logic (MLTL), a widely used subset of popular specification logics like STL and MTL, is often used to model and verify real world systems in safety-critical contexts. As the results of formal verification are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zili Wang , Katherine Kosaian , Kristin Yvonne Rozier

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has provided unprecedented capabilities for analyzing unstructured text data. However, deploying these models as reliable, robust, and scalable classifiers in production environments presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Doohee You , Andy Parisi , Zach Vander Velden , Lara Dantas Inojosa

Timed Automata (TA) are a very popular modeling formalism for systems with time-sensitive properties. A common task is to verify if a network of TA satisfies a given property, usually expressed in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), or in a subset…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Robert L. Smith , Marcello M. Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

We propose a novel algorithm for automata-based LTL model checking that interleaves the construction of the generalized B\"{u}chi automaton for the negation of the formula and the emptiness check. Our algorithm first converts the LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moritz Hammer , Alexander Knapp , Stephan Merz

Quantitative properties of stochastic systems are usually specified in logics that allow one to compare the measure of executions satisfying certain temporal properties with thresholds. The model checking problem for stochastic systems with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-05-11 Axel Legay , Benoit Delahaye

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used to answer questions about physical scenes, yet most evaluations reduce performance to a final answer. This hides whether the model perceived the right objects, represented the right…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Emmanuelle Bourigault

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

Verifying relations between programs arises as a task in various verification contexts such as optimizing transformations, relating new versions of programs with older versions (regression verification), and noninterference. However,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ramana Nagasamudram , Anindya Banerjee , David A. Naumann

An important problem that arises during the execution of service-based applications concerns the ability to determine whether a running service can be substituted with one with a different interface, for example if the former is no longer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Marcello M. Bersani , Luca Cavallaro , Achille Frigeri , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

Graded path modalities count the number of paths satisfying a property, and generalize the existential (E) and universal (A) path modalities of CTL*. The resulting logic is called GCTL*. We settle the complexity of satisfiability of GCTL*,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Benjamin Aminof , Aniello Murano , Sasha Rubin

Some multi-agent scenarios call for the possibility of evaluating specifications in a richer domain of truth values. Examples include runtime monitoring of a temporal property over a growing prefix of an infinite path, inconsistency…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Wojciech Jamroga , Beata Konikowska , Damian Kurpiewski , Wojciech Penczek

Hyperproperties lift conventional trace-based languages from a set of execution traces to a set of sets of executions. From a formal-language perspective, these are sets of sets of words, namely hyperlanguages. Hyperautomata are based on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hadar Frenkel , Sarai Sheinvald

Model checking approaches can be divided into two broad categories: global approaches that determine the set of all states in a model M that satisfy a temporal logic formula f, and local approaches in which, given a state s in M, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Diego Latella , Michele Loreti , Mieke Massink

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic formal verification of stochastic dynamical systems over continuous state spaces. Motivated by problems in state estimation and information-flow security, we introduce the notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Jianing Zhao , Yu Chen , Alessandro Abate , Marta Kwiatkowska , Xiang Yin

With the emerging trend of GPT models, we have established a framework called AutoML-GPT that integrates a comprehensive set of tools and libraries. This framework grants users access to a wide range of data preprocessing techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yun-Da Tsai , Yu-Che Tsai , Bo-Wei Huang , Chun-Pai Yang , Shou-De Lin

This paper presents LEXR, a framework for explaining the decision making of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) using a formal description language called Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). LTL is the de facto standard for the specification of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Bishwamittra Ghosh , Daniel Neider

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