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Automatic Program Repair (APR) is a core technology in software development and maintenance, with aims to enable automated defect repair with minimal human intervention. In recent years, the substantial advancements in Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Quanming Liu , Xupeng Bu , Zhichao Yan , Ru Li

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a widely recognized formal specification language to express rigorous temporal requirements on mixed analog signals produced by cyber-physical systems (CPS). A relevant problem in CPS design is how to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Beatrice Melani , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

The existing deep learning (DL)-based automated program repair (APR) models are limited in fixing general software defects. % We present {\tool}, a DL-based approach that supports fixing for the general bugs that require dependent changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

It is widely accepted that every system should be robust in that ``small'' violations of environment assumptions should lead to ``small'' violations of system guarantees, but it is less clear how to make this intuition mathematically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Satya Prakash Nayak , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy , Martin Zimmermann

We present a deep learning approach for repairing sequential circuits against formal specifications given in linear-time temporal logic (LTL). Given a defective circuit and its formal specification, we train Transformer models to output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Matthias Cosler , Frederik Schmitt , Christopher Hahn , Bernd Finkbeiner

Model transformations play an essential role in the Model-Driven Engineering paradigm. Writing a correct transformation program requires to be proficient with the source and target modeling languages, to have a clear understanding of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zahra Varaminybahnemiry , Jessie Galasso , Houari Sahraoui

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

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications play a crucial role in defining complex temporal properties and behaviors in safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, fault diagnosis (FD) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) for CPS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Penghong Lu , Gang Chen , Rong Su

Program transformations are widely used in synthesis, optimization, and maintenance of software. Correctness of program transformations depends on preservation of some important properties of the input program. By regarding programs as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Aditya Kanade , Amitabha Sanyal , Uday P. Khedker

We study model checking algorithms for infinite families of finite-state labeled transition systems against temporal properties written in CTL*. Such families arise, for example, as models of highly configurable systems or software product…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Roberto Pettinau , Christoph Matheja

Model checking verifies that a model of a system satisfies a given property, and otherwise produces a counter-example explaining the violation. The verified properties are formally expressed in temporal logics. Some temporal logics, such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Simon Busard , Charles Pecheur

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a specification language for finite sequences (called traces) widely used in program verification, motion planning in robotics, process mining, and many other areas. We consider the problem of learning LTL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Daniel Neider

Sequence-to-sequence models have been used to transform erroneous programs into correct ones when trained with a large enough dataset. Some recent studies also demonstrated strong empirical evidence that code review could improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Rishov Paul , Md. Mohib Hossain , Mohammed Latif Siddiq , Masum Hasan , Anindya Iqbal , Joanna C. S. Santos

Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic (PCTL) is a well-known modal logic which has become a standard for expressing temporal properties of finite-state Markov chains in the context of automated model checking. In this paper, we give a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Federico Ramponi , Debasish Chatterjee , Sean Summers , John Lygeros

This paper describes a technique for inferring temporal-logic properties for sets of finite data streams. Such data streams arise in many domains, including server logs, program testing, and financial and marketing data; temporal-logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Samuel Huang , Rance Cleaveland

The integration of cyber-physical systems (CPS) into everyday life raises the critical necessity of ensuring their safety and reliability. An important step in this direction is requirement mining, i.e. inferring formally specified system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Gaia Saveri , Luca Bortolussi

Techniques for runtime verification often utilise specification languages that are (i) reasonably expressive, and (ii) relatively abstract (i.e. they operate on a level of abstraction that separates them from the system being monitored).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Joshua Heneage Dawes , Giles Reger

Model checking for real-timed systems is a rich and diverse topic. Among the different logics considered, Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) is a powerful and commonly used logic, which can succinctly encode many interesting timed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 S. Akshay , Prerak Contractor , Paul Gastin , R. Govind , B. Srivathsan

Hyperproperties extend trace properties to express properties of sets of traces, and they are increasingly popular in specifying various security and performance-related properties in domains such as cyber-physical systems, smart grids, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ernest Bonnah , Luan Viet Nguyen , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

We propose a validity preserving translation from a subset of epistemic Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL) to epistemic Computation Tree Logic (CTL). The considered subset of epistemic ATL is known to have the finite model property and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Dimitar P. Guelev