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Runtime verification is an area of formal methods that studies the dynamic analysis of execution traces against formal specifications. Typically, the two main activities in runtime verification efforts are the process of creating monitors…

Many important hyperproperties, such as refinement and generalized non-interference, fall into the class of $\forall\exists$ hyperproperties and require, for each execution trace of a system, the existence of another trace relating to the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Arthur Correnson , Tobias Niessen , Bernd Finkbeiner , Georg Weissenbacher

Distributed systems are notoriously difficult to understand and analyze in order to assert their correction w.r.t. given properties. They often exhibit a huge number of different behaviors, as soon as the active entities (peers, agents,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Volker Diekert , Anca Muscholl

Runtime Verification is a lightweight formal verification technique. It is used to verify at runtime whether the system under analysis behaves as expected. The expected behaviour is usually formally specified by means of properties, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Angelo Ferrando , Rafael C. Cardoso

In this paper, we focus on the problem of dynamically analysing concurrent software against high-level temporal specifications. Existing techniques for runtime monitoring against such specifications are primarily designed for sequential…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhendong Ang , Umang Mathur

This paper presents an extension of the safety fragment of Hennessy-Milner Logic with recursion over sets of traces, in the spirit of Hyper-LTL. It then introduces a novel monitoring setup that employs circuit-like structures to combine…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Luca Aceto , Antonios Achilleos , Elli Anastasiadi , Adrian Francalanza

Temporal hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces. For (finite-state) hardware, temporal hyperproperties are supported by model checking algorithms, and tools for general temporal logics like HyperLTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Analysis of execution traces plays a fundamental role in many program analysis approaches, such as runtime verification, testing, monitoring, and specification mining. Execution traces are frequently parametric, i.e., they contain events…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Grigore Rosu , Feng Chen

In formal verification, runtime monitoring consists of observing the execution of a system in order to decide as quickly as possible whether or not it satisfies a given property. We consider monitoring in a distributed setting, for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Léo Henry , Thierry Jéron , Nicolas Markey , Victor Roussanaly

Dynamic systems in AI are often complex and heterogeneous, so that an internal specification is not accessible and verification techniques such as model checking are not applicable. Monitoring is in such cases an attractive alternative, as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Alessandro Gianola , Marco Montali , Sarah Winkler

Runtime Verification deals with the question of whether a run of a system adheres to its specification. This paper studies runtime verification in the presence of partial knowledge about the observed run, particularly where input values may…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Hannes Kallwies , Martin Leucker , Cesar Sanchez

Runtime Monitoring is a lightweight and dynamic verification technique that involves observing the internal operations of a software system and/or its interactions with other external entities, with the aim of determining whether the system…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Ian Cassar , Adrian Francalanza , Luca Aceto , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

We study the satisfiability and model-checking problems for timed hyperproperties specified with HyperMTL, a timed extension of HyperLTL. Depending on whether interleaving of events in different traces is allowed, two possible semantics can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Hsi-Ming Ho , Ruoyu Zhou , Timothy M. Jones

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

We study the connection of two problems within the planning and verification community: Conformant planning and model-checking of hyperproperties. Conformant planning is the task of finding a sequential plan that achieves a given objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

We consider the problem of monitoring a Linear Time Logic (LTL) specification that is defined on infinite paths, over finite traces. For example, we may need to draw a verdict on whether the system satisfies or violates the property "p…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Ezio Bartocci , Roderick Bloem , Dejan Nickovic , Franz Roeck

Hyperproperties are properties of systems that relate multiple computation traces, including security and concurrency properties. This paper introduces a bounded model checking (BMC) algorithm for hyperproperties expressed in HyperLTL,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Tzu-Han Hsu , Cesar Sanchez , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

We define two complementary approaches to monitor decentralized systems. The first relies on those with a centralized specification, i.e, when the specification is written for the behavior of the entire system. To do so, our approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Antoine El-Hokayem , Yliès Falcone

A machine-learned system that is fair in static decision-making tasks may have biased societal impacts in the long-run. This may happen when the system interacts with humans and feedback patterns emerge, reinforcing old biases in the system…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mahyar Karimi , Konstantin Kueffner , Kaushik Mallik

Not all properties are monitorable. This is a well-known fact, and it means there exist properties that cannot be fully verified at runtime. However, given a non-monitorable property, a monitor can still be synthesised, but it could end up…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Luca Ciccone , Francesco Dagnino , Angelo Ferrando