English
Related papers

Related papers: Leveraging Static Analysis: An IDE for RTLola

200 papers

Static analysis is a growing application of software engineering, leading to a range of essential security tools, bug-finding tools, as well as software verification. Recent years show an increase of universal static analysis tools that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Avi Hayoun , Veselin Raychev , Jack Hair

We propose a dynamic verification framework for protocols in real-time distributed systems. The framework is based on Scribble, a tool-chain for design and verification of choreographies based on multiparty session types, developed with our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Rumyana Neykova , Laura Bocchi , Nobuko Yoshida

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate requirements specifications, design documents, code, and test cases. In contrast, much less attention has been given to a more difficult assurance problem: statically verifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhi Quan Zhou , Dave Towey , Tsong Yueh Chen

Adversarial robustness verification is essential for ensuring the safe deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in runtime-critical applications. However, formal verification techniques remain computationally infeasible for modern LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Natan Levy , Adiel Ashrov , Guy Katz

Stream Runtime Verification is a formal dynamic analysis technique that generalizes runtime verification algorithms from temporal logics like LTL to stream monitoring, allowing to compute richer verdicts than Booleans (including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Martin Ceresa , Felipe Gorostiaga , Cesar Sanchez

In concurrent and distributed systems, software components are expected to communicate according to predetermined protocols and APIs - and if a component does not observe them, the system's reliability is compromised. Furthermore, isolating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Christian Batrolo Burlò , Adrian Francalanza , Alceste Scalas

Runtime verification enables checking temporal logic specifications over individual execution traces and offers a scalable alternative to exhaustive formal verification. In practice, systems must satisfy dozens to hundreds of temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arınç Demir , Dogan Ulus

Runtime verification encompasses several lightweight techniques for checking whether a system's current execution satisfies a given specification. We focus on runtime verification for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Previous work describes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Javier Esparza , Vincent Fischer

The ubiquitous reliance on software systems increases the need for ensuring that systems behave correctly and are well protected against security risks. Runtime enforcement is a dynamic analysis technique that utilizes software monitors to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ian Cassar , Adrian Francalanza , Luca Aceto , Anna Ingolfsdottir

We present and formalize a general approach for profiling workload by leveraging only a priori available static metadata to supply appropriate resource needs. Understanding the requirements and characteristics of a workload's runtime is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Andrea Morichetta , Stefan Nastic , Victor Casamayor Pujol , Schahram Dustdar

Benchmarking is crucial for testing and validating any system, even more so in real-time systems. Typical real-time applications adhere to well-understood abstractions: they exhibit a periodic behavior, operate on a well-defined working…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Mattia Nicolella , Shahin Roozkhosh , Denis Hoornaert , Andrea Bastoni , Renato Mancuso

To analyse and verify the safety and security properties of interactive systems, a formal specification might be necessary. There are many types of formal languages and frameworks. The decision regarding what type of formal specification…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Maria Spichkova

We present Reelay, a unified online temporal logic monitoring framework designed for the rigorous analysis and runtime verification of cyber-physical systems. Reelay addresses the fragmentation of existing logical formalisms and tools by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Dogan Ulus

Runtime verification is an area of formal methods that studies the dynamic analysis of execution traces against formal specifications. Typically, the two main activities in runtime verification efforts are the process of creating monitors…

This paper presents an application of specification based runtime verification techniques to control mobile robots in a reactive manner. In our case study, we develop a layered control architecture where runtime monitors constructed from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Dogan Ulus , Calin Belta

Runtime Monitoring is a lightweight and dynamic verification technique that involves observing the internal operations of a software system and/or its interactions with other external entities, with the aim of determining whether the system…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Ian Cassar , Adrian Francalanza , Luca Aceto , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

Runtime verification (RV) consists in dynamically verifying that the event traces generated by single runs of a system under scrutiny (SUS) are compliant with the formal specification of its expected properties. RML (Runtime Monitoring…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Davide Ancona , Angelo Ferrando , Viviana Mascardi

Online monitoring aims to evaluate or to predict, at runtime, whether or not the behaviors of a system satisfy some desired specification. It plays a key role in safety-critical cyber-physical systems. In this work, we propose a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Xinyi Yu , Weijie Dong , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

Runtime verification is a lightweight verification technique that complements model checking by analyzing system executions at runtime rather than exploring a complete system model in advance. It is particularly useful for partially…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Benedikt Bollig

Reducing application runtime, scaling parallel applications to higher numbers of processes/threads, and porting applications to new hardware architectures are tasks necessary in the software development process. Therefore, developers have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Ronny Tschüter , Johannes Ziegenbalg , Bert Wesarg , Matthias Weber , Christian Herold , Sebastian Döbel , Ronny Brendel