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Rational verification is the problem of determining which temporal logic properties will hold in a multi-agent system, under the assumption that agents in the system act rationally, by choosing strategies that collectively form a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Julian Gutierrez , Lewis Hammond , Anthony W. Lin , Muhammad Najib , Michael Wooldridge

Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple computation paths in a system and are commonly used to, e.g., define information-flow policies. In this paper, we study a novel class of hyperproperties that allow reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner

Hyperproperties relate multiple executions of a program and are commonly used to specify security and information-flow policies. Most existing work has focused on the verification of $k$-safety properties, i.e., properties that state that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Raven Beutner

We consider quantitative extensions of the alternating-time temporal logics ATL/ATLs called quantitative alternating-time temporal logics (QATL/QATLs) in which the value of a counter can be compared to constants using equality, inequality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Steen Vester

Hyperproperties allow one to specify properties of systems that inherently involve not single executions of the system, but several of them at once: observational determinism and non-inference are two examples of such properties used to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Samuel Graepler , Benjamin Monmege , Jean-Marc Talbot

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

A new logic for verification of security policies is proposed. The logic, HyperLTL, extends linear-time temporal logic (LTL) with connectives for explicit and simultaneous quantification over multiple execution paths, thereby enabling…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Masoud Koleini , Michael R. Clarkson , Kristopher K. Micinski

We present RVHyper, a runtime verification tool for hyperproperties. Hyperproperties, such as non-interference and observational determinism, relate multiple computation traces with each other. Specifications are given as formulas in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Bernd Finkbeiner , Christopher Hahn , Marvin Stenger , Leander Tentrup

A hyperproperty relates executions of a program and is used to formalize security objectives such as confidentiality, non-interference, privacy, and anonymity. Formally, a hyperproperty is a collection of allowable sets of executions. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ali Bajwa , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

Security properties of real-time systems often involve reasoning about hyper-properties, as opposed to properties of single executions or trees of executions. These hyper-properties need to additionally be expressive enough to reason about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nabarun Deka , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

An extension of QPTL is considered where functional dependencies among the quantified variables can be restricted in such a way that their current values are independent of the future values of the other variables. This restriction is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Dylan Bellier , Massimo Benerecetti , Dario Della Monica , Fabio Mogavero

Hyperproperties express the relationship between multiple executions of a system. This is needed in many AI-related fields, such as knowledge representation and planning, to capture system properties related to knowledge, information flow,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Raven Beutner , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Niklas Metzger

Hyperproperties are properties over sets of traces (or runs) of a system, as opposed to properties of just one trace. They were introduced in 2010 and have been much studied since, in particular via an extension of the temporal logic LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nicolas Waldburger , Chana Weil-Kennedy , Pierre Ganty , César Sánchez

Quantum game theory offers a lot of interesting questions, and it is relevant to use the quantum information theory to resolve or improve games with lack of information : how to use the power of quantum entanglement to show the superiority…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Gravier , Philippe Jorrand , Mehdi Mhalla , Charles Payan

Large Language Models (LLMs) define probability measures on text. By considering the implicit knowledge question of what it means for an LLM to know such a measure and what it entails algorithmically, we are naturally led to formulate a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Clément Hongler , Andrew Emil

In this paper, we propose a new logic for expressing and reasoning about probabilistic hyperproperties. Hyperproperties characterize the relation between different independent executions of a system. Probabilistic hyperproperties express…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Erika Abraham , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Hyperproperties are properties that describe the correctness of a system as a relation between multiple executions. Hyperproperties generalize trace properties and include information-flow security requirements, like noninterference, as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner , Hazem Torfah

We introduce a functional inductive framework to verify discrete-time dynamical systems against hyperproperties specified as Hyperlinear temporal logic formulae via a notion of HyperCertificates. Unlike linear temporal logic (LTL) formulae…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishnu Murali , Amin Falah , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Quantum guessing games form a versatile framework for studying different tasks of information processing. A quantum guessing game with posterior information uses quantum systems to encode messages and classical communication to give partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Claudio Carmeli , Teiko Heinosaari , Alessandro Toigo

Runtime verification enables checking temporal logic specifications over individual execution traces and offers a scalable alternative to exhaustive formal verification. In practice, systems must satisfy dozens to hundreds of temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arınç Demir , Dogan Ulus