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Probabilistic hyperproperties express probabilistic relations between different executions of systems with uncertain behavior. HyperPCTL allows to formalize such properties, where quantification over probabilistic schedulers resolves…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Lina Gerlach , Oyendrila Dobe , Erika Ábrahám , Ezio Bartocci , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Hyperproperties generalize traditional trace properties by relating multiple execution traces rather than reasoning about individual runs in isolation. They provide a unified way to express important requirements such as information flow…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

We introduce a novel logic for the specification of context-free hyperproperties, which capture, e.g., the flow of information in security-critical recursive systems. Intuitively, the logic extends visibly pushdown automata by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Sarah Winter , Martin Zimmermann

We present RVHyper, a runtime verification tool for hyperproperties. Hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple computation traces with each other. Specifications are given as formulas in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

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

In this paper, we propose a new logic for expressing and reasoning about probabilistic hyperproperties. Hyperproperties characterize the relation between different independent executions of a system. Probabilistic hyperproperties express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Erika Abraham , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

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

We investigate the logical foundations of hyperproperties. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties, which are sets of traces, to sets of sets of traces. The most prominent application of hyperproperties is information flow security:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Bernd Finkbeiner , Martin Zimmermann

Alternating-time temporal logic (ATL$^*$) is a well-established framework for formal reasoning about multi-agent systems. However, while ATL$^*$ can reason about the strategic ability of agents (e.g., some coalition $A$ can ensure that a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

We investigate the problem of controller synthesis for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces. Hyperproperties can elegantly express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner

We define a new decidable logic for expressing and checking invariants of programs that manipulate dynamically-allocated objects via pointers and destructive pointer updates. The main feature of this logic is the ability to limit the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Greta Yorsh , Alexander Rabinovich , Mooly Sagiv , Antoine Meyer , Ahmed Bouajjani

The term stack safety is used to describe a variety of compiler, run-time, and hardware mechanisms for protecting stack memory. Unlike "the heap," the ISA-level stack does not correspond to a single high-level language concept: different…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Sean Noble Anderson , Roberto Blanco , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Benjamin C. Pierce , Andrew Tolmach

Hyperproperties enable simultaneous reasoning about multiple execution traces of a system and are useful to reason about non-interference, opacity, robustness, fairness, observational determinism, etc. We introduce hyper parametric timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Masaki Waga , Étienne André

We study the problem of formalizing and checking probabilistic hyperproperties for models that allow nondeterminism in actions. We extend the temporal logic \HyperPCTL, which has been previously introduced for discrete-time Markov chains,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Erika Abraham , Ezio Bartocci , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Oyendrila Dobe

Trace properties, which are sets of execution traces, are often used to analyze systems, but their expressiveness is limited. Clarkson and Schneider defined hyperproperties as a generalization of trace properties to sets of sets of traces.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog

We introduce APPL (Abstract Program Property Logic), a unifying Hoare-style logic that subsumes standard Hoare logic, incorrectness logic, and several variants of Hyper Hoare logic. APPL provides a principled foundation for abstract program…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Paolo Baldan , Roberto Bruni , Francesco Ranzato , Diletta Rigo

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

Hyperproperties are properties of systems that relate multiple computation traces, including security and concurrency properties. This paper introduces a bounded model checking (BMC) algorithm for hyperproperties expressed in HyperLTL,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Tzu-Han Hsu , Cesar Sanchez , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

A specification given as a formula in linear temporal logic (LTL) defines a system by its set of traces. However, certain features such as information flow security constraints are rather modeled as so-called hyperproperties, which are sets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Martin Lück

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