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To maximize the information gained from a single execution when verifying a concurrent system, one can derive all concurrency-aware equivalent executions and check them against linear specifications. This paper offers an alternative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Martin Leucker

It is well known that (timed) $\omega$-regular properties such as `p holds at every even position' and `p occurs at least three times within the next 10 time units' cannot be expressed in Metric Interval Temporal Logic ($\mathsf{MITL}$) and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Hsi-Ming Ho

In many multirobot applications, planning trajectories in a way to guarantee that the collective behavior of the robots satisfies a certain high-level specification is crucial. Motivated by this problem, we introduce counting temporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Yunus Emre Sahin , Petter Nilsson , Necmiye Ozay

In this paper the reversibility of executable Interval Temporal Logic (ITL) specifications is investigated. ITL allows for the reasoning about systems in terms of behaviours which are represented as non-empty sequences of states. It allows…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Antonio Cau , Stefan Kuhn , James Hoey

Timed Automata (TA) are a very popular modeling formalism for systems with time-sensitive properties. A common task is to verify if a network of TA satisfies a given property, usually expressed in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), or in a subset…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Robert L. Smith , Marcello M. Bersani , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

We introduce $\textit{PCFTL (Probabilistic CounterFactual Temporal Logic)}$, a new probabilistic temporal logic for the verification of Markov Decision Processes (MDP). PCFTL is the first to include operators for causal reasoning, allowing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Milad Kazemi , Nicola Paoletti

Alternating-time temporal logic (ATL) allows to specify requirements on abilities that different agents should (or should not) possess in a multi-agent system. However, model checking ATL specifications in realistic systems is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wojciech Jamroga , Michał Knapik , Damian Kurpiewski

Timing information leakage occurs whenever an attacker successfully deduces confidential internal information by observing some timed information such as events with timestamps. Timed automata are an extension of finite-state automata with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Étienne André , Engel Lefaucheux , Didier Lime , Dylan Marinho , Jun Sun

Verifying temporal compliance rules, such as a rule stating that an inquiry must be answered within a time limit, is a recurrent operation in the realm of business process compliance. In this setting, a typical use case is one where a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Adriano Augusto , Ahmed Awad , Marlon Dumas

In this paper we provide a notion of causality for the violation of general Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) properties. The current work is a natural extension of the previously proposed approach handling causality in the context of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Georgiana Caltais , Sophie Linnea Guetlein , Stefan Leue

In runtime verification, manually formalizing a specification for monitoring system executions is a tedious and error-prone process. To address this issue, we consider the problem of automatically synthesizing formal specifications from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanael Fijalkow , Daniel Neider , Guillermo A. Perez

One clock alternating timed automata (OCATA) have been introduced as natural extension of (one clock) timed automata to express the semantics of MTL. In this paper, we consider the application of OCATA to the problems of model-checking and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Thomas Brihaye , Morgane Estiévenart , Gilles Geeraerts

This paper describes the development of a counterfactual Root Cause Analysis diagnosis approach for an industrial multivariate time series environment. It drives the attention toward the Point of Incipient Failure, which is the moment in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Alexandre Trilla , Rajesh Rajendran , Ossee Yiboe , Quentin Possamaï , Nenad Mijatovic , Jordi Vitrià

Virtually all verification techniques using formal methods rely on the availability of a formal specification, which describes the design requirements precisely. However, formulating specifications remains a manual task that is notoriously…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy

While reachability analysis is one of the most promising approaches for formal verification of dynamic systems, a major disadvantage preventing a more widespread application is the requirement to manually tune algorithm parameters such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak

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

Temporal link prediction (TLP) models are commonly evaluated based on predictive accuracy, yet such evaluations do not assess whether these models capture the causal mechanisms that govern temporal interactions. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aniq Ur Rahman , Justin P. Coon

Timed automata are a common formalism for the verification of concurrent systems subject to timing constraints. They extend finite-state automata with clocks, that constrain the system behavior in locations, and to take transitions. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Johan Arcile , Étienne André

Verification of temporal logic properties plays a crucial role in proving the desired behaviors of continuous systems. In this paper, we propose an interval method that verifies the properties described by a bounded signal temporal logic.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Daisuke Ishii , Naoki Yonezaki , Alexandre Goldsztejn

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) has been widely adopted as a specification language for specifying desirable behaviors of hybrid systems. By monitoring a given STL specification, we can detect the executions that violate it, which are often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhenya Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Jie An , Eunsuk Kang