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Runtime verification encompasses several lightweight techniques for checking whether a system's current execution satisfies a given specification. We focus on runtime verification for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Previous work describes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Javier Esparza , Vincent Fischer

Algorithms for model checking and satisfiability of the modal $\mu$-calculus start by converting formulas to alternating parity tree automata. Thus, model checking is reduced to checking acceptance by tree automata and satisfiability to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Daniel Hausmann , Nir Piterman

We adapt an existing preemptive scheduling model of RTOS kernel by eChronos from machine-assisted proof to Spin-based model checker. The model we constructed can be automatically verified rather than formulating proofs by hand. Moreover, we…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chen-Kai Lin , Ching-Chun , Huang , Bow-Yaw Wang

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

In this paper bounded model checking of asynchronous concurrent systems is introduced as a promising application area for answer set programming. As the model of asynchronous systems a generalisation of communicating automata, 1-safe Petri…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Keijo Heljanko , Ilkka Niemelä

Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI) analysis requires verifying complex technical claims across rapidly growing literature, where existing approaches fail to bridge the verification gap between surface-level accuracy and deeper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuntao Du , Minh Dinh , Kaiyuan Zhang , Ninghui Li

Multi-objective probabilistic model checking is a powerful technique for verifying stochastic systems against multiple (potentially conflicting) properties. To enhance the trustworthiness and explainability of model checking tools, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Christel Baier , Calvin Chau , Volodymyr Drobitko , Simon Jantsch , Sascha Klüppelholz

Legal properties involve reasoning about data values and time. Metric first-order temporal logic (MFOTL) provides a rich formalism for specifying legal properties. While MFOTL has been successfully used for verifying legal properties over…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Nick Feng , Lina Marsso , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Marsha Chechik

This paper studies the problem of model-checking of probabilistic automaton and probabilistic one-counter automata against probabilistic branching-time temporal logics (PCTL and PCTL$^*$). We show that it is undecidable for these problems.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-19 T. Lin

By algorithmic metatheorems for a model checking problem P over infinite-state systems we mean generic results that can be used to infer decidability (possibly complexity) of P not only over a specific class of infinite systems, but over a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-10-28 Anthony Widjaja To , Leonid Libkin

Constraint automata are an adaptation of B\"uchi-automata that process data words where the data comes from some relational structure S. Every transition of such an automaton comes with constraints in terms of the relations of S. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Alexander Kartzow , Thomas Weidner

The state explosion problem and the exponentially computational complexity restrict the further applications of LTL model checking. To this end, this study tries to seek an acceptable approximate solution for LTL model checking by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Weijun Zhu , Jianwei Wang , Yongwen Fan

We propose a verified approach to the formal verification of timed properties using model-checking techniques. We focus on properties expressed using real-time specification patterns, which can be viewed as a subset of timed temporal logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Nouha Abid , Silvano Dal Zilio , Didier Le Botlan

Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) is a well studied real-time, temporal logic that has decidable satisfiability and model checking problems. The decision procedures for MITL rely on the automata theoretic approach, where logic formulas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Nima Roohi , Mahesh Viswanathan

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joel Ouaknine , James Worrell

Alternating timed automata (ATA) are an extension of timed automata, that are closed under complementation and hence amenable to logic-to-automata translations. Several timed logics, including Metric Temporal Logic (MTL), can be converted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Patricia Bouyer , B Srivathsan , Vaishnavi Vishwanath

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping automated fact-checking (AFC) by enabling unified, end-to-end verification pipelines rather than isolated components. While large proprietary models achieve strong performance, their closed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Malin Astrid Larsson , Harald Fosen Grunnaleite , Vinay Setty

We present a general framework for modelling and verifying epistemic properties over parameterized multi-agent systems that communicate by truthful public announcements. In our framework, the number of agents or the amount of certain…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Daniel Stan , Anthony Widjaja Lin

Abstract interpretation offers a powerful toolset for static analysis, tackling precision, complexity and state-explosion issues. In the literature, state partitioning abstractions based on (bi)simulation and property-preserving state…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Paolo Baldan , Roberto Bruni , Francesco Ranzato , Diletta Rigo

Formal verification offers a path to provably correct software, but writing verified code remains expensive enough that the technique is rarely used in production. Recent large language models can accelerate this work, and recent benchmarks…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leo Yao