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We present for the first time a supermartingale certificate for $\omega$-regular specifications. We leverage the Robbins & Siegmund convergence theorem to characterize supermartingale certificates for the almost-sure acceptance of Streett…

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We present the first supermartingale certificate for quantitative $\omega$-regular properties of discrete-time infinite-state stochastic systems. Our certificate is defined on the product of the stochastic system and a limit-deterministic…

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We present a data-driven approach to the quantitative verification of probabilistic programs and stochastic dynamical models. Our approach leverages neural networks to compute tight and sound bounds for the probability that a stochastic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Alessandro Abate , Alec Edwards , Mirco Giacobbe , Hashan Punchihewa , Diptarko Roy

We introduce a general methodology for the construction of sound and complete proof rules for the almost-sure and quantitative acceptance of reactivity properties on time-homogeneous Markov chains with general state spaces. Reactivity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alessandro Abate , Mirco Giacobbe , Sergey Ichtchenko , Diptarko Roy

This paper introduces the notion of control closure certificates to synthesize controllers for discrete-time control systems against $\omega$-regular specifications. Typical functional approaches to synthesize controllers against…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vishnu Murali , Mohammed Adib Oumer , Majid Zamani

This paper addresses the quantitative verification of finite-time constrained occupation time for stochastic continuous-time systems governed by stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Unlike classical reachability analysis, which focuses…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Bai Xue , C. -H. Luke Ong

We study the problem of co-designing control barrier functions and linear state feedback controllers for discrete-time linear systems affected by additive disturbances. For disturbances of bounded magnitude, we provide a semi-definite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Marta Fochesato , Han Wang , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Paul Goulart

This paper studies the problem of enforcing safety of a stochastic dynamical system over a finite time horizon. We use stochastic barrier functions as a means to quantify the probability that a system exits a given safe region of the state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Cesar Santoyo , Maxence Dutreix , Samuel Coogan

This paper addresses the design of safety certificates for stochastic systems, with a focus on ensuring long-term safety through fast real-time control. In stochastic environments, set invariance-based methods that restrict the probability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Zhuoyuan Wang , Haoming Jing , Christian Kurniawan , Albert Chern , Yorie Nakahira

We introduce for the first time a neural-certificate framework for continuous-time stochastic dynamical systems. Autonomous learning systems in the physical world demand continuous-time reasoning, yet existing learnable certificates for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Grigory Neustroev , Mirco Giacobbe , Anna Lukina

The paper presents a methodology for temporal logic verification of continuous-time switched stochastic systems. Our goal is to find the lower bound on the probability that a complex temporal property is satisfied over a finite time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Mahathi Anand , Pushpak Jagtap , Majid Zamani

This paper presents a novel approach for augmenting proof-based verification with performance-style analysis of the kind employed in state-of-the-art model checking tools for probabilistic systems. Quantitative safety properties usually…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-11 Ukachukwu Ndukwu

A barrier certificate often serves as an inductive invariant that isolates an unsafe region from the reachable set of states, and hence is widely used in proving safety of hybrid systems possibly over the infinite time horizon. We present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Qiuye Wang , Mingshuai Chen , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Joost-Pieter Katoen

This paper addresses the problem of checking invariant properties for a large class of symbolic transition systems, defined by a combination of SMT theories and quantifiers. State variables can be functions from an uninterpreted sort…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Gianluca Redondi , Alessandro Cimatti , Alberto Griggio , Kenneth McMillan

A barrier certificate often serves as an inductive invariant that isolates an unsafe region from the reachable set of states, and hence is widely used in proving safety of hybrid systems possibly over an infinite time horizon. We present a…

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This paper studies the problem of enforcing safety of a stochastic dynamical system over a finite-time horizon. We use stochastic control barrier functions as a means to quantify the probability that a system exits a given safe region of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Cesar Santoyo , Maxence Dutreix , Samuel Coogan

Safety of stochastic dynamic systems in environments with dynamic obstacles is studied in this paper through the lens of stochastic barrier functions. We introduce both time-invariant and time-varying barrier certificates for discrete-time,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Rayan Mazouz , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

Many systems contain latent variables that make their dynamics partially unidentifiable or cause distribution shifts in the observed statistics between offline and online data. However, existing control techniques often assume access to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Haoming Jing , Yorie Nakahira

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic formal verification of stochastic dynamical systems over continuous state spaces. Motivated by problems in state estimation and information-flow security, we introduce the notion of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Jianing Zhao , Yu Chen , Alessandro Abate , Marta Kwiatkowska , Xiang Yin

Symbolic approaches to the control design over complex systems employ the construction of finite-state models that are related to the original control systems, then use techniques from finite-state synthesis to compute controllers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Majid Zamani , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Rupak Majumdar , Alessandro Abate , John Lygeros
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