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Consistency properties of concurrent computations, e.g., sequential consistency, linearizability, or eventual consistency, are essential for devising correct concurrent algorithms. In this paper, we present a logical formalization of such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Klaus v. Gleissenthall , Andrey Rybalchenko

We introduce a novel logic for the specification of context-free hyperproperties, which capture, e.g., the flow of information in security-critical recursive systems. Intuitively, the logic extends visibly pushdown automata by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Sarah Winter , Martin Zimmermann

Hyperproperties are properties of sets of computation traces. In this paper, we study quantitative hyperproperties, which we define as hyperproperties that express a bound on the number of traces that may appear in a certain relation. For…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Hazem Torfah

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and commonly occur when specifying information-flow and security policies. Logics like HyperLTL utilize explicit quantification over execution traces to express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Hyperproperties are properties of systems that relate different executions traces, with many applications from security to symmetry, consistency models of concurrency, etc. In recent years, different linear-time logics for specifying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Laura Bozzelli , Adriano Peron , Cesar Sanchez

We introduce a functional inductive framework to verify discrete-time dynamical systems against hyperproperties specified as Hyperlinear temporal logic formulae via a notion of HyperCertificates. Unlike linear temporal logic (LTL) formulae…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishnu Murali , Amin Falah , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Formal languages are in the core of models of computation and their behavior. A rich family of models for many classes of languages have been widely studied. Hyperproperties lift conventional trace-based languages from a set of execution…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sarai Sheinvald

The advent of large-scale, complex computing systems has dramatically increased the difficulties of securing accesses to systems' resources. To ensure confidentiality and integrity, the exploitation of access control mechanisms has thus…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Andrea Margheri , Rosario Pugliese , Francesco Tiezzi

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 are properties over sets of traces (or runs) of a system, as opposed to properties of just one trace. They were introduced in 2010 and have been much studied since, in particular via an extension of the temporal logic LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nicolas Waldburger , Chana Weil-Kennedy , Pierre Ganty , César Sánchez

Relational properties arise in many settings: relating two versions of a program that use different data representations, noninterference properties for security, etc. The main ingredient of relational verification, relating aligned pairs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Anindya Banerjee , David A. Naumann , Mohammad Nikouei

Hyperproperties are properties that relate multiple execution traces. Previous work on monitoring hyperproperties focused on synchronous hyperproperties, usually specified in HyperLTL. When monitoring synchronous hyperproperties, all traces…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Marek Chalupa , Thomas A. Henzinger

Machine learning algorithms have been used widely in various applications and areas. To fit a machine learning model into different problems, its hyper-parameters must be tuned. Selecting the best hyper-parameter configuration for machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Li Yang , Abdallah Shami

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces and occur, e.g., when specifying security and information-flow properties. Checking if a hyperproperty is satisfiable has many important applications, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

HyperLTL, the extension of Linear Temporal Logic by trace quantifiers, is a uniform framework for expressing information flow policies by relating multiple traces of a security-critical system. HyperLTL has been successfully applied to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Corto Mascle , Martin Zimmermann

Explainable systems expose information about why certain observed effects are happening to the agents interacting with them. We argue that this constitutes a positive flow of information that needs to be specified, verified, and balanced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Julian Siber

Formal explainability guarantees the rigor of computed explanations, and so it is paramount in domains where rigor is critical, including those deemed high-risk. Unfortunately, since its inception formal explainability has been hampered by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xuanxiang Huang , Joao Marques-Silva

This paper introduces robust differential dynamic logic (a fragment of differential dynamic logic) to specify and reason about robust hybrid systems. Practically meaningful syntactic restrictions naturally ensure that definable properties…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Noah Abou El Wafa , André Platzer

Requirements are informal and semi-formal descriptions of the expected behavior of a system. They are usually expressed in the form of natural language sentences and checked for errors manually, e.g., by peer reviews. Manual checks are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Simone Vuotto

We study the reactive synthesis problem for hyperproperties given as formulas of the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties, i.e., sets of traces, to sets of sets of traces. Typical examples are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Philip Lukert , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup