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In this paper, we investigate the control synthesis problem for Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications in the presence of uncontrollable agents. Existing works mainly address this problem in a robust control setting by assuming the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Bohan Cui , Xinyi Yu , Alessandro Giua , Xiang Yin

LTLf synthesis is the process of finding a strategy that satisfies a linear temporal specification over finite traces. An existing solution to this problem relies on a reduction to a DFA game. In this paper, we propose a symbolic framework…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Shufang Zhu , Lucas M. Tabajara , Jianwen Li , Geguang Pu , Moshe Y. Vardi

We consider turn-based game arenas for which we investigate uniformity properties of strategies. These properties involve bundles of plays, that arise from some semantical motive. Typically, we can represent constraints on allowed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Bastien Maubert , Sophie Pinchinat

Infinite-state games are a commonly used model for the synthesis of reactive systems with unbounded data domains. Symbolic methods for solving such games need to be able to construct intricate arguments to establish the existence of winning…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova , Satya Prakash Nayak

We propose a machine learning framework to synthesize reactive controllers for systems whose interactions with their adversarial environment are modeled by infinite-duration, two-player games over (potentially) infinite graphs. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Daniel Neider , Oliver Markgraf

Statecharts are frequently used as a modeling formalism in the design of state-based systems. Formal verification techniques are also often applied to prove certain properties about the behavior of the system. One of the most efficient…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Bence Czipó , Ákos Hajdu , Tamás Tóth , István Majzik

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has become a cornerstone of reasoning in large language models, yet its effectiveness is constrained by the limited expressiveness of discrete token sampling. Recent latent reasoning approaches attempt to alleviate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Renyu Fu , Guibo Luo

We study a variant of the problem of synthesizing Mealy machines that enforce LTL specifications against all possible behaviours of the environment including hostile ones. In the variant studied here, the user provides the high level LTL…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Mrudula Balachander , Emmanuel Filiot , Jean-François Raskin

We propose a control synthesis framework for a heterogeneous multi-robot system to satisfy collaborative tasks, where actions may take varying duration of time to complete. We encode tasks using the discrete logic LTL^\psi, which uses the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Amy Fang , Tenny Yin , Jiawei Lin , Hadas Kress-Gazit

We present a lazy version of multi-layered abstraction-based controller synthesis (ABCS) for continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems against safety specifications. State-of-the-art multi-layered ABCS uses pre-computed finite-state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Kyle Hsu , Rupak Majumdar , Kaushik Mallik , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

Iterative abstraction refinement techniques are one of the most prominent paradigms for the analysis and verification of systems with large or infinite state spaces. This paper investigates the changes of truth values of system properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jakob Piribauer , Vinzent Zschuppe

LTLf synthesis under partial observability requires reasoning about unobservable environment variables, which is typically handled by constructing a belief-state DFA via subset construction that universally quantifies these variables.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Nadav Alon , Supratik Chakraborty , Alexandre Duret-Lutz , Dror Fried , Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi , Shufang Zhu

We propose a framework for synthesizing inductive invariants for incomplete verification engines, which soundly reduce logical problems in undecidable theories to decidable theories. Our framework is based on the counter-example guided…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Daniel Neider , Pranav Garg , P. Madhusudan , Shambwaditya Saha , Daejun Park

We study best-effort strategies (aka plans) in fully observable nondeterministic domains (FOND) for goals expressed in Linear Temporal Logic on Finite Traces (LTLf). The notion of best-effort strategy has been introduced to also deal with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Gianmarco Parretti , Shufang Zhu

A modern approach to engineering correct-by-construction systems is to synthesize them automatically from formal specifications. Oftentimes, a system can only satisfy its guarantees if certain environment assumptions hold, which motivates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Roderick Bloem , Ruediger Ehlers , Robert Koenighofer

We consider the problem of synthesizing provably non-overflowing integer arithmetic expressions or Boolean relations among integer arithmetic expressions. First we use a numerical abstract domain to infer numerical properties among program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Francesco Logozzo , Matthieu Martel

Automatic synthesis from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications is widely used in robotic motion planning, control of autonomous systems, and load distribution in power networks. A common specification pattern in such applications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

The reactive synthesis problem is to compute a system satisfying a given specification in temporal logic. Bounded synthesis is the approach to bound the maximum size of the system that we accept as a solution to the reactive synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Peter Faymonville , Bernd Finkbeiner , Markus N. Rabe , Leander Tentrup

We present lazy abstraction-based controller synthesis (ABCS) for continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems against reach-avoid and safety specifications. State-of-the-art multi-layered ABCS pre-computes multiple finite-state abstractions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Kyle Hsu , Rupak Majumdar , Kaushik Mallik , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

In the classical synthesis problem, we are given an LTL formula \psi over sets of input and output signals, and we synthesize a system T that realizes \psi: with every input sequences x, the system associates an output sequence T(x) such…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Shaull Almagor , Orna Kupferman