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Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a prominent specification formalism for real-time systems. In this paper, we show that the satisfiability problem for MTL over finite timed words is decidable, with non-primitive recursive complexity. We also…

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Accurate and up-to-date models describing the be- havior of software systems are seldom available in practice. To address this issue, software engineers may use specification mining techniques, which can automatically derive models that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Fabrizio Pastore , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

We propose algorithms for performing model checking and control synthesis for discrete-time uncertain systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. We construct temporal logic trees (TLT) from LTL formulae via reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Yulong Gao , Alessandro Abate , Frank J. Jiang , Mirco Giacobbe , Lihua Xie , Karl H. Johansson

Explainability, in particular, the ability for robots to explain why they have made a decision or behaved in a certain way, is a critical tool in helping users understand the robots they interact and coexist with. Behaviour trees are a…

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The problem of model-checking hybrid systems is a long-time challenge in the scientific community. Most of the existing approaches and tools are either limited on the properties that they can verify, or restricted to simplified classes of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Davide Bresolin

Verification of temporal logic properties plays a crucial role in proving the desired behaviors of hybrid systems. In this paper, we propose an interval method for verifying the properties described by a bounded linear temporal logic. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Daisuke Ishii , Naoki Yonezaki , Alexandre Goldsztejn

We present a monitoring approach for verifying systems at runtime. Our approach targets systems whose components communicate with the monitors over unreliable channels, where messages can be delayed or lost. In contrast to prior works,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-19 David Basin , Felix Klaedtke , Eugen Zălinescu

Process mining extracts valuable insights from event data to help organizations improve their business processes, which is essential for their growth and success. By leveraging process mining techniques, organizations gain a comprehensive…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Nesma M. Zaki , Iman M. A. Helal , Ehab E. Hassanein , Ahmed Awad

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

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

In logics for the strategic reasoning the main challenge is represented by their verification in contexts of imperfect information and perfect recall. In this work, we show a technique to approximate the verification of Alternating-time…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Angelo Ferrando , Vadim Malvone

The model-checking problem for hybrid systems is a well known challenge in the scientific community. Most of the existing approaches and tools are limited to safety properties only, or operates by transforming the hybrid system to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Davide Bresolin

Causality is vital for understanding true cause-and-effect relationships between variables within predictive models, rather than relying on mere correlations, making it highly relevant in the field of Explainable AI. In an automated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Arturo Fredes , Jordi Vitria

Writing formal specifications for distributed systems is difficult. Even simple consistency requirements often turn out to be unrealizable because of the complicated information flow in the distributed system: not all information is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Bernd Finkbeiner , Leander Tentrup

Motion planning of an autonomous system with high-level specifications has wide applications. However, research of formal languages involving timed temporal logic is still under investigation. Furthermore, many existing results rely on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhiliang Li , Mingyu Cai , Shaoping Xiao , Zhen Kan

Counterfactual explanations are one of the prominent eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques, and suggest changes to input data that could alter predictions, leading to more favourable outcomes. Existing counterfactual methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Andrei Buliga , Chiara Di Francescomarino , Chiara Ghidini , Marco Montali , Massimiliano Ronzani

Temporal logic is a very powerful formalism deeply investigated and used in formal system design and verification. Its application usually reduces to solving specific decision problems such as model checking and satisfiability. In these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Gaëlle Fontaine , Fabio Mogavero , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Loredana Sorrentino

We revisit a fundamental result in real-time verification, namely that the binary reachability relation between configurations of a given timed automaton is definable in linear arithmetic over the integers and reals. In this paper we give a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Karin Quaas , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

A temporal logic is presented for reasoning about the correctness of timed concurrent constraint programs. The logic is based on modalities which allow one to specify what a process produces as a reaction to what its environment inputs.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 F. S. de Boer , M. Gabbrielli , M. C. Meo

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…

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