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Many properties related to security or concurrency must be encoded as so-called hyperproperties, temporal properties that allow reasoning about multiple traces of a system. However, despite recent advances on model checking hyperproperties,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Nuno Macedo , Hugo Pacheco

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

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel team semantics of LTL inspired by inquisitive logic. The main features of the resulting logic, we call InqLTL, are the intuitionistic interpretation of implication and the Boolean semantics of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Laura Bozzelli , Tadeusz Litak , Munyque Mittelmann , Aniello Murano

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and occur, e.g., when specifying security and information-flow properties. Checking if a hyperproperty is satisfiable has many important applications, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

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

Many types of attacks on confidentiality stem from the nondeterministic nature of the environment that computer programs operate in (e.g., schedulers and asynchronous communication channels). In this paper, we focus on verification of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Tzu-Han Hsu , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner , César Sánchez

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

Temporal logics for hyperproperties like HyperLTL use trace quantifiers to express properties that relate multiple system runs. In practice, the verification of such specifications is mostly limited to formulas without quantifier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Temporal logics for the specification of information-flow properties are able to express relations between multiple executions of a system. The two most important such logics are HyperLTL and HyperCTL*, which generalise LTL and CTL* by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Marie Fortin , Louwe B. Kuijer , Patrick Totzke , Martin Zimmermann

Hyperproperties are properties that refer to multiple computation traces. This includes many information-flow security policies, such as observational determinism, (generalized) noninterference, and noninference, and other system properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Tobias Hans

Hyperproperties relate multiple computation traces to each other. Model checkers for hyperproperties thus return, in case a system model violates the specification, a set of traces as a counterexample. Fixing the erroneous relations between…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Norine Coenen , Raimund Dachselt , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Christopher Hahn , Tom Horak , Niklas Metzger , Julian Siber

Strategy logic (SL) is a powerful temporal logic that enables strategic reasoning in multi-agent systems. SL supports explicit (first-order) quantification over strategies and provides a logical framework to express many important…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Monadic Second-Order Logic (MSO) extends First-Order Logic (FO) with variables ranging over sets and quantifications over those variables. We introduce and study Monadic Tree Logic (MTL), a fragment of MSO interpreted on infinite-tree…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Massimo Benerecetti , Laura Bozzelli , Fabio Mogavero , Adriano Peron

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

Higher-Order Fixpoint Logic (HFL) is a hybrid of the simply typed \lambda-calculus and the modal \lambda-calculus. This makes it a highly expressive temporal logic that is capable of expressing various interesting correctness properties of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Roland Axelsson , Martin Lange , Rafal Somla

HyperQPTL and HyperQPTL$^+$ are expressive specification languages for hyperproperties, properties that relate multiple executions of a system. Tight complexity bounds are known for HyperQPTL finite-state satisfiability and model-checking.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Gaëtan Regaud , Martin Zimmermann

System requirements related to concepts like information flow, knowledge, and robustness cannot be judged in terms of individual system executions, but rather require an analysis of the relationship between multiple executions. Such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Bernd Finkbeiner

Strategy logic (SL) is a powerful temporal logic that enables first-class reasoning over strategic behavior in multi-agent systems (MAS). In many MASs, the agents (and their strategies) cannot observe the global state of the system, leading…

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

The model-checking problem for hybrid systems is a well known challenge in the scientific community. Most of the existing approaches and tools are limited to safety properties only, or operates by transforming the hybrid system to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Davide Bresolin