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We study the classical problem of verifying programs with respect to formal specifications given in the linear temporal logic (LTL). We first present novel sound and complete witnesses for LTL verification over imperative programs. Our…

Runtime monitoring is generally considered a light-weight alternative to formal verification. In safety-critical systems, however, the monitor itself is a critical component. For example, if the monitor is responsible for initiating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Dauer J. C. , Finkbeiner B. , Schirmer S

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a convenient formalism to express bounded horizon properties of autonomous critical systems. STL extends LTL to real-valued signals and associates a non-singleton bound interval to each temporal operators. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Céline Bellanger , Pierre-Loïc Garoche , Matthieu Martel , Célia Picard

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

Verification of temporal logic properties plays a crucial role in proving the desired behaviors of continuous systems. In this paper, we propose an interval method that verifies the properties described by a bounded signal temporal logic.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Daisuke Ishii , Naoki Yonezaki , Alexandre Goldsztejn

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

This paper presents a {theoretical study} of the problem of verifying linearizability at runtime, where one seeks for a concurrent algorithm for verifying that the current execution of a given concurrent shared object implementation is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Armando Castañeda , Gilde Valeria Rodríguez

As modern software systems grow in complexity and operate in dynamic environments, the need for runtime analysis techniques becomes a more critical part of the verification and validation process. Runtime verification monitors the runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cristina Stratan , Claudio Mandrioli , Domenico Bianculli

We propose TOPL automata as a new method for runtime verification of systems with unbounded resource generation. Paradigmatic such systems are object-oriented programs which can dynamically generate an unbounded number of fresh object…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Radu Grigore , Dino Distefano , Rasmus Lerchedahl Petersen , Nikos Tzevelekos

Adversarial robustness verification is essential for ensuring the safe deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in runtime-critical applications. However, formal verification techniques remain computationally infeasible for modern LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Natan Levy , Adiel Ashrov , Guy Katz

A Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) verification algorithm is presented. It verifies continuous-time signals without relying on high frequency sampling. Instead, it is assumed that collections of over- and under-approximating intervals…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Daniel Selvaratnam , Michael Cantoni , J. M. Davoren , Iman Shames

Synthesis of models and strategies is a very important problem in software engineering. The main element here is checking the satisfiability of formulae expressing the specification of a system to be implemented. This paper puts forward a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Magdalena Kacprzak , Artur Niewiadomski , Wojciech Penczek

This article introduces a fully automated verification technique that permits to analyze real-time systems described using a continuous notion of time and a mixture of operational (i.e., automata-based) and descriptive (i.e., logic-based)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

Runtime verification, also known as runtime monitoring, consists of checking whether a system satisfies a given specification by observing the trace it produces during its execution. It is used as a lightweight verification technique to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Luca Aceto , Antonis Achilleos , Duncan Paul Attard , Léo Exibard , Adrian Francalanza , Anna Ingólfsdóttir , Karoliina Lehtinen

In runtime verification, a monitor watches a trace of a system and, if possible, decides after observing each finite prefix whether or not the unknown infinite trace satisfies a given specification. We generalize the theory of runtime…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Thomas A. Henzinger , N. Ege Saraç

Verification is crucial for effective mathematical reasoning. We present a new temporal consistency method where verifiers iteratively refine their judgments based on the previous assessment. Unlike one-round verification or multi-model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiacheng Guo , Yue Wu , Jiahao Qiu , Kaixuan Huang , Xinzhe Juan , Ling Yang , Mengdi Wang

Mission-time Linear Temporal Logic (MLTL), a widely used subset of popular specification logics like STL and MTL, is often used to model and verify real world systems in safety-critical contexts. As the results of formal verification are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Zili Wang , Katherine Kosaian , Kristin Yvonne Rozier

Transactions involving multiple blockchains are implemented by cross-chain protocols. These protocols are based on smart contracts, programs that run on blockchains, executed by a network of computers. Because smart contracts can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ritam Ganguly , Yingjie Xue , Aaron Jonckheere , Parker Ljung , Benjamin Schornstein , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Maurice Herlihy

Online monitoring aims to evaluate or to predict, at runtime, whether or not the behaviors of a system satisfy some desired specification. It plays a key role in safety-critical cyber-physical systems. In this work, we propose a new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Xinyi Yu , Weijie Dong , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

Virtually all verification and synthesis techniques assume that the formal specifications are readily available, functionally correct, and fully match the engineer's understanding of the given system. However, this assumption is often…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Simon Lutz , Daniel Neider , Rajarshi Roy