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We study satisfiability for HyperLTL with a $\forall^*\exists^*$ quantifier prefix, known to be highly undecidable in general. HyperLTL can express system properties that relate multiple traces (so-called hyperproperties), which are often…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Raven Beutner , David Carral , Bernd Finkbeiner , Jana Hofmann , Markus Krötzsch

Hyperproperties are properties that describe the correctness of a system as a relation between multiple executions. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties and include information-flow security requirements, like noninterference, as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

We present a novel asynchronous hyper linear time temporal logic named LPrL (Linear Time Predicate Logic) and establish its basic theory. LPrL is a natural first order extension of LTL (Linear time temporal logic), in which the predicates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Parasara Sridhar Duggirala , P. S. Thiagarajan

A specification given as a formula in linear temporal logic (LTL) defines a system by its set of traces. However, certain features such as information flow security constraints are rather modeled as so-called hyperproperties, which are sets…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Martin Lück

Monitoring is a runtime verification technique that allows one to check whether an ongoing computation of a system (partial trace) satisfies a given formula. It does not need a complete model of the system, but it typically requires the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Andrea Brunello , Luca Geatti , Angelo Montanari , Nicola Saccomanno

Hyperproperties, like observational determinism or symmetry, cannot be expressed as properties of individual computation traces, because they describe a relation between multiple computation traces. HyperLTL is a temporal logic that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn

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

In this paper, we focus on the problem of dynamically analysing concurrent software against high-level temporal specifications. Existing techniques for runtime monitoring against such specifications are primarily designed for sequential…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhendong Ang , Umang Mathur

We settle the complexity of satisfiability, finite-state satisfiability, and model-checking for several fragments of second-order HyperLTL, which extends HyperLTL with quantification over sets of traces: they are all in the analytical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Gaëtan Regaud , Martin Zimmermann

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a popular formalism to specify temporal patterns with timing constraints over the behavior of cyber-physical systems with application areas ranging in property-based testing, robotics, optimization, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Dogan Ulus

Many important system properties, particularly in security and privacy, cannot be verified statically. Therefore, runtime verification is an appealing alternative. Logics for hyperproperties, such as HyperLTL, support a rich set of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Sandro Stucki , César Sánchez , Gerardo Schneider , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

We study the runtime verification of hyperproperties, expressed in the temporal logic HyperLTL, as a means to inspect a system with respect to security polices. Runtime monitors for hyperproperties analyze trace logs that are organized by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Bernd Finkbeiner

Many important cryptographic primitives offer probabilistic guarantees of security that can be specified as quantitative hyperproperties; these are specifications that stipulate the existence of a certain number of traces in the system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Shubham Sahai , Rohit Sinha , Pramod Subramanyan

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

Many important hyperproperties, such as refinement and generalized non-interference, fall into the class of $\forall\exists$ hyperproperties and require, for each execution trace of a system, the existence of another trace relating to the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Arthur Correnson , Tobias Niessen , Bernd Finkbeiner , Georg Weissenbacher

A hyperproperty relates executions of a program and is used to formalize security objectives such as confidentiality, non-interference, privacy, and anonymity. Formally, a hyperproperty is a collection of allowable sets of executions. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ali Bajwa , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

Distributed systems are notoriously difficult to understand and analyze in order to assert their correction w.r.t. given properties. They often exhibit a huge number of different behaviors, as soon as the active entities (peers, agents,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Volker Diekert , Anca Muscholl

We investigate the task and motion planning problem for dynamical systems under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications. Existing works on STL control synthesis mainly focus on generating plans that satisfy properties over a single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Jianing Zhao , Bowen Ye , Xinyi Yu , Rupak Majumdar , Xiang Yin

We consider the problem of monitoring a Linear Time Logic (LTL) specification that is defined on infinite paths, over finite traces. For example, we may need to draw a verdict on whether the system satisfies or violates the property "p…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Ezio Bartocci , Roderick Bloem , Dejan Nickovic , Franz Roeck

We develop team semantics for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) to express hyperproperties, which have recently been identified as a key concept in the verification of information flow properties. Conceptually, we consider an asynchronous and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema , Martin Zimmermann