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The control synthesis of a dynamic system subject to a signal temporal logic (STL) specification is commonly formulated as a mixed-integer linear/convex programming (MILP/MICP) problem. Solving such a problem is computationally expensive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Zengjie Zhang , Sofie Haesaert

Extending Large Language Models (LLMs) to advanced applications requires reliable structured output generation. Existing methods which often rely on rigid JSON schemas, can lead to unreliable outputs, diminished reasoning capabilities, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Chandra Irugalbandara

In the wake of the recent resurgence of the Datalog language of databases, together with its extensions for ontological reasoning settings, this work aims to bridge the gap between the theoretical studies of DatalogMTL (Datalog extended…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Luigi Bellomarini , Livia Blasi , Markus Nissl , Emanuel Sallinger

Ensuring that agents satisfy safety specifications can be crucial in safety-critical environments. While methods exist for controller synthesis with safe temporal specifications, most existing methods restrict safe temporal specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Gaspard Ohlmann , Edwin Hamel-De le Court , Francesco Belardinelli

This paper introduces a logic with a class of social network models that is based on standard Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), leveraging the power of existing model checkers for the analysis of social networks. We provide a short literature…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Vitor Machado , Mario Benevides

Type theories, logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common foundation for designing, implementing, and reasoning about formal languages and their semantics. They are central to the design of modern programming languages, certified…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-14 Karl Crary , Marino Miculan

Synthesizing a reactive system from specifications given in linear temporal logic (LTL) is a classical problem, finding its applications in safety-critical systems design. These systems are typically represented using either Mealy machines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jan Křetínský , Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Prokop

We reformulate the signal temporal logic (STL) synthesis problem as a maximum a-posteriori (MAP) inference problem. To this end, we introduce the notion of random STL~(RSTL), which extends deterministic STL with random predicates. This new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Ki Myung Brian Lee , Chanyeol Yoo , Robert Fitch

Learning formulas in Linear Temporal Logic (LTLf) from finite traces is a fundamental research problem which has found applications in artificial intelligence, software engineering, programming languages, formal methods, control of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gabriel Bathie , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Théo Matricon , Baptiste Mouillon , Pierre Vandenhove

Trajectory planning is a critical process that enables autonomous systems to safely navigate complex environments. Signal temporal logic (STL) specifications are an effective way to encode complex temporally extended objectives for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Parv Kapoor , Eunsuk Kang , Romulo Meira-Goes

We present here a SAT-based framework for LTLf (Linear Temporal Logic on Finite Traces) satisfiability checking. We use propositional SAT-solving techniques to construct a transition system for the input LTLf formula; satisfiability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Jianwen Li , Kristin Y. Rozier , Geguang Pu , Yueling Zhang , Moshe Y. Vardi

TextFormats is a software system for efficient and user-friendly creation of text format specifications, accessible from multiple programming languages (C/C++, Python, Nim) and the Unix command line. To work with a format, a specification…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Giorgio Gonnella

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance in mathematical reasoning tasks when guided by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. However, they tend to produce highly confident yet incorrect outputs, which poses significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhenjiang Mao , Artem Bisliouk , Rohith Reddy Nama , Ivan Ruchkin

Hyperproperties are a modern specification paradigm that extends trace properties to express properties of sets of traces. Temporal logics for hyperproperties studied in the literature, including HyperLTL, assume a synchronous semantics and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Laura Bozzelli , Adriano Peron , Cesar Sanchez

I consider the following generic scenario: an abstract model M of some 'real' system is only partially presented, or partially known to us, and we have to ensure that the actual system satisfies a given specification, formalised in some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Valentin Goranko

We present Syntroids, a case study for the automatic synthesis of hardware from a temporal logic specification. Syntroids is a space shooter arcade game realized on an FPGA, where the control flow architecture has been completely specified…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Gideon Geier , Philippe Heim , Felix Klein , Bernd Finkbeiner

This paper presents an ongoing work that is part of a more wide-ranging project whose final scope is to define a method to validate LTL formulas w.r.t. a program written in the timed concurrent constraint language tccp, which is a logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Marco Comini , Laura Titolo , Alicia Villanueva

In this paper the reversibility of executable Interval Temporal Logic (ITL) specifications is investigated. ITL allows for the reasoning about systems in terms of behaviours which are represented as non-empty sequences of states. It allows…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Antonio Cau , Stefan Kuhn , James Hoey

We present a novel asynchronous hyper linear time temporal logic named LPrL (Linear Time Predicate Logic) and establish its basic theory. LPrL is a natural first order extension of LTL (Linear time temporal logic), in which the predicates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Parasara Sridhar Duggirala , P. S. Thiagarajan

Linear Temporal Logic over finite traces ($\text{LTL}_f$) is a widely used formalism with applications in AI, process mining, model checking, and more. The primary reasoning task for $\text{LTL}_f$ is satisfiability checking; yet, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Antonio Ielo , Giuseppe Mazzotta , Rafael Peñaloza , Francesco Ricca