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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

Planning is a fundamental task in artificial intelligence that involves finding a sequence of actions that achieve a specified goal in a given environment. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for applications that require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Eran Hirsch , Guy Uziel , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

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

Automated temporal planning is the technology of choice when controlling systems that can execute more actions in parallel and when temporal constraints, such as deadlines, are needed in the model. One limitation of several action-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Alessandro Valentini , Andrea Micheli , Alessandro Cimatti

Large Language Models have been found to create plans that are neither executable nor verifiable in grounded environments. An emerging line of work demonstrates success in using the LLM as a formalizer to generate a formal representation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Cassie Huang , Li Zhang

We tackle the problem of planning in nondeterministic domains, by presenting a new approach to conformant planning. Conformant planning is the problem of finding a sequence of actions that is guaranteed to achieve the goal despite the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 A. Cimatti , M. Roveri

Nondeterministic choice is a useful program construct that provides a way to describe the behaviour of a program without specifying the details of possible implementations. It supports the stepwise refinement of programs, a method that has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yuan Feng , Yingte Xu

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 have shown to be a powerful tool for expressing and reasoning about information-flow security policies. In this paper, we investigate the problem of statistical model checking (SMC) for hyperproperties. Unlike exhaustive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Yu Wang , Siddhartha Nalluri , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Miroslav Pajic

We present an end-to-end framework for planning supported by verifiers. An orchestrator receives a human specification written in natural language and converts it into a PDDL (Planning Domain Definition Language) model, where the domain and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Emanuele La Malfa , Ping Zhu , Samuele Marro , Sara Bernardini , Michael Wooldridge

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

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

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

Recently model checking representation and search techniques were shown to be efficiently applicable to planning, in particular to non-deterministic planning. Such planning approaches use Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs) to encode a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 R. M. Jensen , M. M. Veloso

We study the satisfiability and model-checking problems for timed hyperproperties specified with HyperMTL, a timed extension of HyperLTL. Depending on whether interleaving of events in different traces is allowed, two possible semantics can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Hsi-Ming Ho , Ruoyu Zhou , Timothy M. Jones

Hyperproperties enable simultaneous reasoning about multiple execution traces of a system and are useful to reason about non-interference, opacity, robustness, fairness, observational determinism, etc. We introduce hyper parametric timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Masaki Waga , Étienne André

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

Autonomous agents rely on automated planning algorithms to achieve their objectives. Simulation-based planning offers a significant advantage over declarative models in modelling complex environments. However, relying solely on a planner…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mustafa F. Abdelwahed , Alice Toniolo , Joan Espasa , Ian P. Gent

HyperLTL is an extension of linear-time temporal logic for the specification of hyperproperties, i.e., temporal properties that relate multiple computation traces. HyperLTL can express information flow policies as well as properties like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Norine Coenen , Bernd Finkbeiner , César Sánchez , Leander Tentrup

HyperLTL is a temporal logic that can express hyperproperties, i.e., properties that relate multiple execution traces of a system. Such properties are becoming increasingly important and naturally occur, e.g., in information-flow control,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner