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Monitoring is a runtime verification technique that allows one to check whether an ongoing computation of a system (partial trace) satisfies a given formula. It does not need a complete model of the system, but it typically requires the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Andrea Brunello , Luca Geatti , Angelo Montanari , Nicola Saccomanno

Stream-based monitoring is a runtime verification approach where a monitor aggregates streams of input data from sensors and other sources to give real-time statistics and assessments of a system's health. One of the central challenges in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Florian Kohn , Arthur Correnson , Jan Baumeister , Bernd Finkbeiner

Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun

Reactive software calls for instrumentation methods that uphold the reactive attributes of systems. Runtime verification imposes another demand on the instrumentation, namely that the trace event sequences it reports to monitors are sound…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Luca Aceto , Duncan Paul Attard , Adrian Francalanza , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

Many modern software systems are built as a set of autonomous software components (also called agents) that collaborate with each other and are situated in an environment. To keep these multiagent systems operational under abnormal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 João Faccin , Ingrid Nunes , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

Causal-consistent reversible debugging allows one to explore concurrent computations back and forth in order to locate the source of an error. In this setting, backward steps can be chosen freely as long as they are "causal consistent",…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Juan José González-Abril , Germán Vidal

As LLM-based agents grow more autonomous and multi-modal, ensuring they remain controllable, auditable, and faithful to deployer intent becomes critical. Prior benchmarks measured the propensity for misaligned behavior and showed that agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Abhivansh Gupta

The actor model is an attractive foundation for developing concurrent applications because actors are isolated concurrent entities that communicate through asynchronous messages and do not share state. Thereby, they avoid concurrency bugs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Carmen Torres Lopez , Stefan Marr , Hanspeter Mössenböck , Elisa Gonzalez Boix

Agent frameworks increasingly encode tool-using behavior as explicit workflow graphs, yet safety enforcement remains a runtime concern. These frameworks expose analyzable graph structure through their APIs, enabling pre-deployment static…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Melwin Xavier , Vaisakh M A , Melveena Jolly , Midhun Xavier

We introduce ETOM, a five-level benchmark for evaluating multi-hop, end-to-end tool orchestration by LLM agents within a hierarchical Model-Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem. Existing benchmarks often assess tools in isolation, overlooking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jia-Kai Dong , I-Wei Huang , Chun-Tin Wu , Yi-Tien Tsai

Instrumenting programs for performing run-time checking of properties, such as regular shapes, is a common and useful technique that helps programmers detect incorrect program behaviors. This is specially true in dynamic languages such as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Maximiliano Klemen , Nataliia Stulova , Pedro Lopez-Garcia , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Runtime verification is the process of verifying critical behavioral properties in big complex systems, where formal verification is not possible due to state space explosion. There have been several attempts to design efficient algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 M. Ali Dorosty , Fathiyeh Faghih , Ehsan Khamespanah

Runtime verification is an effective automated method for specification-based offline testing and analysis as well as online monitoring of complex systems. The specification language is often a variant of regular expressions or a popular…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ramy Medhat , Yogi Joshi , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastian Fischmeister

As autonomous agents become increasingly sophisticated, validating their sequential behavior presents a significant challenge. Traditional testing approaches require manual specification, exact sequence matching, or thousands of training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Reshabh K Sharma , Gaurav Mittal , Yu Hu

With the advent of Industry 4.0, industrial facilities and critical infrastructures are transforming into an ecosystem of heterogeneous physical and cyber components, such as programmable logic controllers, increasingly interconnected and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ruggero Lanotte , Massimo Merro , Andrei Munteanu

Recent advances in agentic systems increasingly treat code as an executable operational substrate rather than as a disposable output artifact. Prior work such as \emph{Code as Agent Harness} frames validated agent-generated artifacts as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mariano Garralda-Barrio

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with High-Performance Computing (HPC) is transforming scientific workflows from human-directed pipelines into adaptive systems capable of autonomous decision-making. Large language models…

GraphFlow is a visual workflow system designed to improve the reliability of agentic AI automation in multi-step, mission-critical processes. In these workflows, small errors compound rapidly: under an idealized model of independent steps,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Drewry H. Morris , Luis Valles , Reza Hosseini Ghomi

Modern automotive software is highly complex and consists of millions lines of code. For safety-relevant automotive software, it is recommended to use sound static program analysis to prove the absence of runtime errors. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jesko Hecking-Harbusch , Jochen Quante , Maximilian Schlund

Modern enterprise platforms increasingly depend on distributed microservices, analytical data platforms, and external APIs to construct composite responses for applications. Orchestrating data retrieval across these heterogeneous systems is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Abhiram Kandiraju