{"title":"On multi-language abstraction: Towards a static analysis of multi-language programs","authors":"Samuele Buro, Roy Crole, Isabella Mastroeni","doi":"10.1007/s10703-022-00405-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-022-00405-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135677962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Antonio Di Stasio, Lucas M. Tabajara, Moshe Y. Vardi, Shufang Zhu
{"title":"Finite-trace and generalized-reactivity specifications in temporal synthesis","authors":"Giuseppe De Giacomo, Antonio Di Stasio, Lucas M. Tabajara, Moshe Y. Vardi, Shufang Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00413-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00413-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Linear Temporal Logic ( LTL ) synthesis aims at automatically synthesizing a program that complies with desired properties expressed in LTL . Unfortunately it has been proved to be too difficult computationally to perform full LTL synthesis. There have been two success stories with LTL synthesis, both having to do with the form of the specification. The first is the GR(1) approach: use safety conditions to determine the possible transitions in a game between the environment and the agent, plus one powerful notion of fairness, Generalized Reactivity(1), or GR(1) . The second, inspired by AI planning, is focusing on finite-trace temporal synthesis, with LTL $$_f$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:msub> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> ( LTL on finite traces) as the specification language. In this paper we take these two lines of work and bring them together. We first study the case in which we have an LTL $$_f$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:msub> <mml:mrow /> <mml:mi>f</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> agent goal and a GR(1) environment specification. We then add to the framework safety conditions for both the environment and the agent, obtaining a highly expressive yet still scalable form of LTL synthesis.","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"211 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135648424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Chatterjee, J. Katoen, Stefanie Mohr, Maximilian Weininger, Tobias Winkler
{"title":"Stochastic games with lexicographic objectives","authors":"K. Chatterjee, J. Katoen, Stefanie Mohr, Maximilian Weininger, Tobias Winkler","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00411-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46685066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formal Methods: 25th International Symposium, FM 2023, Lübeck, Germany, March 6–10, 2023, Proceedings","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-27481-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27481-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74715755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stratified guarded first-order transition systems","authors":"Christian Müller, Helmut Seidl","doi":"10.1007/s10703-022-00404-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-022-00404-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>First-order transition systems are a convenient formalism to specify parametric systems such as multi-agent workflows or distributed algorithms. In general, any nontrivial question about such systems is undecidable. Here, we present three subclasses of first-order transition systems where every universal invariant can effectively be decided via fixpoint iteration. These subclasses are defined in terms of syntactical restrictions: negation, stratification and guardedness. While guardedness represents a particular pattern how input predicates control existential quantifiers, stratification limits the information flow between predicates. Guardedness implies that the weakest precondition for every universal invariant is again universal, while the remaining sufficient criteria enforce that either the number of occurring negated literals decreases in every iteration, or the number of required instances of input predicates or the number of first-order variables remains bounded. We argue for each of these three cases that termination of the fixpoint iteration can be guaranteed. We apply these results to identify classes of multi-agent systems, when formalized as first-order transition systems, where noninterference in presence of declassification is decidable for coalitions of attackers of bounded size.</p>","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stratified guarded first-order transition systems","authors":"Christian Müller, Helmut Seidl","doi":"10.1007/s10703-022-00404-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-022-00404-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>First-order transition systems are a convenient formalism to specify parametric systems such as multi-agent workflows or distributed algorithms. In general, any nontrivial question about such systems is undecidable. Here, we present three subclasses of first-order transition systems where every universal invariant can effectively be decided via fixpoint iteration. These subclasses are defined in terms of syntactical restrictions: negation, stratification and guardedness. While guardedness represents a particular pattern how input predicates control existential quantifiers, stratification limits the information flow between predicates. Guardedness implies that the weakest precondition for every universal invariant is again universal, while the remaining sufficient criteria enforce that either the number of occurring negated literals decreases in every iteration, or the number of required instances of input predicates or the number of first-order variables remains bounded. We argue for each of these three cases that termination of the fixpoint iteration can be guaranteed. We apply these results to identify classes of multi-agent systems, when formalized as first-order transition systems, where noninterference in presence of declassification is decidable for coalitions of attackers of bounded size.</p>","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing robust reachability","authors":"Guillaume Girol, Benjamin Farinier, S. Bardin","doi":"10.1007/s10703-022-00402-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-022-00402-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44286002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine learning and logic: a new frontier in artificial intelligence","authors":"Vijay Ganesh, S. Seshia, S. Jha","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00430-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00430-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"60 1","pages":"426 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46786377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On monitoring linear temporal properties","authors":"K. Havelund, D. Peled","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00429-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00429-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"60 1","pages":"405 - 425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47216219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Achieving high coverage in hardware equivalence checking via concolic verification","authors":"Pritam Roy, S. Chaki","doi":"10.1007/s10703-023-00414-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-023-00414-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12430,"journal":{"name":"Formal Methods in System Design","volume":"60 1","pages":"329 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46882292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}