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We present an elementary introduction to a new logic for reasoning about behaviors that occur over time. This logic is based on temporal type theory. The syntax of the logic is similar to the usual first-order logic; what differs is the…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Brendan Fong , Alberto Speranzon , David I. Spivak

This paper addresses the problem of learning control policies for mobile robots, modeled as unknown Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), that are tasked with temporal logic missions, such as sequencing, coverage, or surveillance. The MDP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yiannis Kantaros

This paper presents a general framework for the design of linear controllers for linear systems subject to time-domain constraints. The design framework exploits sums-of-squares techniques to incorporate the time-domain constraints on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-04 W. H. T. M. Aangenent , W. P. M. H. Heemels , M. J. G. Van De Molengraft , Didier Henrion , Maarten Steinbuch

In this paper, we focus our attention on the interval temporal logic of the Allen's relations "meets", "begins", and "begun by" (ABBar for short), interpreted over natural numbers. We first introduce the logic and we show that it is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-02-03 A. Montanari , G. Puppis , P. Sala , G. Sciavicco

In the design of integrated circuits, one critical metric is the maximum delay introduced by combinational modules within the circuit. This delay is crucial because it represents the time required to perform a computation: in an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Alessandro Bertagnon , Marcello Dalpasso , Michele Favalli , Marco Gavanelli

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) and Timed Propositional Temporal Logic (TPTL) extend Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) for real-time constraints, with MTL using time-bounded modalities and TPTL employing freeze quantifiers. Satisfiability for both is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Khushraj Madnani , Agnipratim Nag , Paritosh Pandya

In this paper we consider the specification and verification of infinite-state systems using temporal logic. In particular, we describe parameterised systems using a new variety of first-order temporal logic that is both powerful enough for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Clare Dixon , Michael Fisher , Boris Konev , Alexei Lisitsa

Temporal logics are an obvious high-level descriptive companion formalism to dynamical systems which model behavior as deterministic evolution of state over time. A wide variety of distinct temporal logics applicable to dynamical systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Baltasar Trancón y Widemann

The paper presents an extension of temporal epistemic logic with operators that quantify over strategies. The language also provides a natural way to represent what agents would know were they to be aware of the strategies being used by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Xiaowei Huang , Ron van der Meyden

We introduce Parametric Linear Dynamic Logic (PLDL), which extends Linear Dynamic Logic (LDL) by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. LDL was proposed as an extension of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) that is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Peter Faymonville , Martin Zimmermann

The control properties of discrete-time switched linear systems (SLS) with switching signals generated by logical dynamic systems are studied using the semi-tensor product (STP) approach. With the algebraic state space representation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Xiao Zhang , Min Meng , Zhengping Ji

In this paper, we develop a method to automatically generate a control policy for a dynamical system modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The control specification is given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-03-24 Xu Chu Ding , Stephen L. Smith , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus

In this paper, we consider the problem of deploying a robot from a specification given as a temporal logic statement about some properties satisfied by the regions of a large, partitioned environment. We assume that the robot has noisy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Xu Chu Ding , Jing Wang , Morteza Lahijanian , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Calin A. Belta

Logic-based models can be used to build verification tools for machine learning classifiers employed in the legal field. ML classifiers predict the outcomes of new cases based on previous ones, thereby performing a form of case-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Cecilia Di Florio , Huimin Dong , Antonino Rotolo

We present a novel prompt design for Large Language Models (LLMs) tailored to Asynchronous Time Series. Unlike regular time series, which assume values at evenly spaced time points, asynchronous time series consist of timestamped events…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Shubham Gupta , Thibaut Durand , Graham Taylor , Lilian W. Białokozowicz

Transferring high-level knowledge from a source task to a target task is an effective way to expedite reinforcement learning (RL). For example, propositional logic and first-order logic have been used as representations of such knowledge.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

The expressiveness of Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) has been extensively studied throughout the last two decades. In particular, it has been shown that the \emph{interval-based} semantics of MTL is strictly more expressive than the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohammed Aristide Foughali

We present a mathematical programming-based method for model predictive control of cyber-physical systems subject to signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. We describe the use of STL to specify a wide range of properties of these…

We introduce Parametric Linear Dynamic Logic (PLDL), which extends Linear Dynamic Logic (LDL) by temporal operators equipped with parameters that bound their scope. LDL itself was proposed as an extension of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Peter Faymonville , Martin Zimmermann

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