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We report on intermediate results of -- to the best of our knowledge -- the first study of completeness thresholds for (partially) bounded memory safety proofs. Specifically, we consider heap-manipulating programs that iterate over arrays…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Tobias Reinhard , Justus Fasse , Bart Jacobs

We develop a framework to give upper bounds on the "practical" computational complexity of stability problems for a wide range of nonlinear continuous and hybrid systems. To do so, we describe stability properties of dynamical systems using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Sicun Gao , Soonho Kong , Edmund Clarke

Increasingly sophisticated mathematical modelling processes from Machine Learning are being used to analyse complex data. However, the performance and explainability of these models within practical critical systems requires a rigorous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xingyu Zhao , Alec Banks , James Sharp , Valentin Robu , David Flynn , Michael Fisher , Xiaowei Huang

Regular transition systems (RTS) are a popular formalism for modeling infinite-state systems in general, and parameterised systems in particular. In a CONCUR 22 paper, Esparza et al. introduce a novel approach to the verification of RTS,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Philipp Czerner , Javier Esparza , Valentin Krasotin , Christoph Welzel-Mohr

We present a novel method for the safety verification of nonlinear dynamical models that uses neural networks to represent abstractions of their dynamics. Neural networks have extensively been used before as approximators; in this work, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Alessandro Abate , Alec Edwards , Mirco Giacobbe

Lighthouse projects such as CompCert, seL4, IronFleet, and DeepSpec have demonstrated that full verification of entire systems is feasible by establishing a refinement relation between an abstract system specification and an executable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Christoph Sprenger , Tobias Klenze , Marco Eilers , Felix A. Wolf , Peter Müller , Martin Clochard , David Basin

We introduce notions of safety, liveness, and fairness, as commonly used in temporal reasoning, to quantitative (bipolar) argumentation dialogues where repeated inferences are drawn from argumentation graphs with weighted nodes. Between…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Arunavo Ganguly , Julian Alfredo Mendez , Timotheus Kampik

String diagrams provide a convenient graphical framework which may be used for equational reasoning about morphisms of monoidal categories. However, unlike term rewriting, rewriting string diagrams results in shorter equational proofs,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Vladimir Nikolaev Zamdzhiev

Modern society is getting accustomed to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) for a variety of applications that involves security-critical user data and information transfers. In the lower end of the spectrum, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Avani Dave Nilanjan Banerjee Chintan Patel

Software model checkers based on under-approximations and SMT solvers are very successful at verifying safety (i.e. reachability) properties. They combine two key ideas -- (a) "concreteness": a counterexample in an under-approximation is a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Anvesh Komuravelli , Arie Gurfinkel , Sagar Chaki , Edmund M. Clarke

In a previous paper we have presented a CEGAR approach for the verification of parameterized systems with an arbitrary number of processes organized in an array or a ring. The technique is based on the iterative computation of parameterized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Javier Esparza , Mikhail Raskin , Christoph Welzel

Tagging items with descriptive annotations or keywords is a very natural way to compress and highlight information about the properties of the given entity. Over the years several methods have been proposed for extracting a hierarchy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Gergely Tibély , Péter Pollner , Tamás Vicsek , Gergely Palla

A key problem in constrained random verification (CRV) concerns generation of input stimuli that result in good coverage of the system's runs in targeted corners of its behavior space. Existing CRV solutions however provide no formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Supratik Chakraborty , Aditya A. Shrotri , Moshe Y. Vardi

Hyperproperties relate multiple executions of a program and are commonly used to specify security and information-flow policies. Most existing work has focused on the verification of $k$-safety properties, i.e., properties that state that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Raven Beutner

A distributed protocol is typically modeled as a set of communicating processes, where each process is described as an extended state machine along with fairness assumptions, and its correctness is specified using safety and liveness…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Rajeev Alur , Mukund Raghothaman , Christos Stergiou , Stavros Tripakis , Abhishek Udupa

In this paper we give an overview of results on the analysis of parametric linear hybrid automata, and of systems of similar linear hybrid automata: We present possibilities of describing systems with a parametric (i.e. not explicitly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans , Philipp Marohn

Whereas distributed computing research has been very successful in exploring the solvability/impossibility border of distributed computing problems like consensus in representative classes of computing models with respect to model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Hugo Rincon Galeana , Ulrich Schmid

We propose a new formal criterion for secure compilation, providing strong security guarantees for components written in unsafe, low-level languages with C-style undefined behavior. Our criterion goes beyond recent proposals, which protect…

Most methods for neural network verification focus on bounding the image, i.e., set of outputs for a given input set. This can be used to, for example, check the robustness of neural network predictions to bounded perturbations of an input.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiyue Zhang , Benjie Wang , Marta Kwiatkowska , Huan Zhang

We describe the use of array expressions as constraints, which represents a consequent generalisation of the "element" constraint. Constraint propagation for array constraints is studied theoretically, and for a set of domain reduction…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sebastian Brand