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Runtime monitoring is one of the central tasks in the area of operational decision support for business process management. In particular, it helps process executors to check on-the-fly whether a running process instance satisfies business…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Riccardo De Masellis , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Marco Montali

Translating formulas of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) over finite traces, or LTLf, to symbolic Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) plays an important role not only in LTLf synthesis, but also in synthesis for Safety LTL formulas. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Shufang Zhu , Geguang Pu , Moshe Y. Vardi

The classic approaches to synthesize a reactive system from a linear temporal logic (LTL) specification first translate the given LTL formula to an equivalent omega-automaton and then compute a winning strategy for the corresponding…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Andreas Morgenstern , Klaus Schneider

We investigate the synthesis of policies for high-level agent programs expressed in Golog, a language based on situation calculus that incorporates nondeterministic programming constructs. Unlike traditional approaches for program…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Till Hofmann , Jens Claßen

LTL synthesis is the problem of synthesizing a reactive system from a formal specification in Linear Temporal Logic. The extension of allowing for partial observability, where the system does not have direct access to all relevant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi

This paper proposes a new AND-OR graph search framework for synthesis of Linear Temporal Logic on finite traces (\LTLf), that overcomes some limitations of previous approaches. Within such framework, we devise a procedure inspired by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marco Favorito

In this paper, we study incremental LTLf synthesis -- a form of reactive synthesis where the goals are given incrementally while in execution. In other words, the protagonist agent is already executing a strategy for a certain goal when it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Yves Lespérance , Gianmarco Parretti , Fabio Patrizi , Moshe Y. Vardi

In this work, we propose an abstraction and refinement methodology for the controller synthesis of discrete-time stochastic systems to enforce complex logical properties expressed by deterministic finite automata (a.k.a. DFA). Our proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Bingzhuo Zhong , Abolfazl Lavaei , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

The verification of asynchronous software components poses significant challenges due to the way components interleave and exchange input/output data concurrently. Compositional strategies aim to address this by separating the task of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alberto Bombardelli , Stefano Tonetta

We consider the formulation of a symbolic execution (SE) procedure for functional programs that interact with effectful, opaque libraries. Our procedure allows specifications of libraries and abstract data type (ADT) methods that are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yongwei Yuan , Zhe Zhou , Julia Belyakova , Suresh Jagannathan

A challenging problem for autonomous systems is to synthesize a reactive controller that conforms to a set of given correctness properties. Linear temporal logic (LTL) provides a formal language to specify the desired behavioral properties…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu

Reactive synthesis addresses the problem of generating a controller for a temporal specification in an adversarial environment; it was typically studied for LTL. Driven by applications ranging from AI to business process management, LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sarah Winkler

We study the problem of realizing strategies for an LTLf goal specification while ensuring that at least an LTLf backup specification is satisfied in case of unreliability of certain input variables. We formally define the problem and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Christian Hagemeier , Giuseppe de Giacomo , Moshe Y. Vardi

We introduce ocLTL, the case of LTL+P modulo {\omega}-categorical theories. We reduce its realizability and synthesis problems into the corresponding problems in propositional LTL+P. The core of the reduction replaces each data subformula…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ohad Asor

In this paper, we study the composition of services so as to obtain runs satisfying a task specification in Linear Temporal Logic on finite traces (LTLf). We study the problem in the case services are nondeterministic and the LTLf…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Marco Favorito , Luciana Silo

Devising a strategy to make a system mimicking behaviors from another system is a problem that naturally arises in many areas of Computer Science. In this work, we interpret this problem in the context of intelligent agents, from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Dror Fried , Fabio Patrizi , Shufang Zhu

How do LLMs compare with symbolic tools on program synthesis tasks? We investigate this question on several synthesis domains: LTL reactive synthesis, syntax-guided synthesis, distributed protocol synthesis, and recursive function…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Derek Egolf , Yuhao Zhou , Stavros Tripakis

Runtime monitoring is one of the central tasks to provide operational decision support to running business processes, and check on-the-fly whether they comply with constraints and rules. We study runtime monitoring of properties expressed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Riccardo De Masellis , Marco Grasso , Fabrizio Maggi , Marco Montali

The innovations in reactive synthesis from {\em Linear Temporal Logics over finite traces} (LTLf) will be amplified by the ability to verify the correctness of the strategies generated by LTLf synthesis tools. This motivates our work on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Suguman Bansal , Yong Li , Lucas Martinelli Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi , Andrew Wells

We study a variant of LTLf synthesis that synthesizes adaptive strategies for achieving a multi-tier goal, consisting of multiple increasingly challenging LTLf objectives in nondeterministic planning domains. Adaptive strategies are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Gianmarco Parretti , Shufang Zhu