Formal synthesis of controllers for safety-critical autonomous systems: Developments and challenges

X Yin, B Gao, X Yu - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, formal methods have been extensively used in the design of autonomous
systems. By employing mathematically rigorous techniques, formal methods can provide …

Software Verification of Hyperproperties Beyond k-Safety

R Beutner, B Finkbeiner - International Conference on Computer Aided …, 2022 - Springer
Temporal hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple execution traces. For
(finite-state) hardware, temporal hyperproperties are supported by model checking …

AutoHyper: Explicit-state model checking for HyperLTL

R Beutner, B Finkbeiner - … Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the …, 2023 - Springer
HyperLTL is a temporal logic that can express hyperproperties, ie, properties that relate
multiple execution traces of a system. Such properties are becoming increasingly important …

Constraint-based relational verification

H Unno, T Terauchi, E Koskinen - International Conference on Computer …, 2021 - Springer
In recent years they have been numerous works that aim to automate relational verification.
Meanwhile, although Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs CHCs) empower a wide range of …

Second-order hyperproperties

R Beutner, B Finkbeiner, H Frenkel… - … Conference on Computer …, 2023 - Springer
We introduce Hyper2LTL, a temporal logic for the specification of hyperproperties that allows
for second-order quantification over sets of traces. Unlike first-order temporal logics for …

Input-relational verification of deep neural networks

D Banerjee, C Xu, G Singh - Proceedings of the ACM on Programming …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We consider the verification of input-relational properties defined over deep neural networks
(DNNs) such as robustness against universal adversarial perturbations, monotonicity, etc …

A temporal logic for asynchronous hyperproperties

J Baumeister, N Coenen, B Bonakdarpour… - … on Computer Aided …, 2021 - Springer
Hyperproperties are properties of computational systems that require more than one trace to
evaluate, eg, many information-flow security and concurrency requirements. Where a trace …

Verifying hyperliveness

N Coenen, B Finkbeiner, C Sánchez… - … York City, NY, USA, July 15 …, 2019 - Springer
HyperLTL is an extension of linear-time temporal logic for the specification of
hyperproperties, ie, temporal properties that relate multiple computation traces. HyperLTL …

Automated software verification of hyperliveness

R Beutner - International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for …, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Bounded model checking for hyperproperties

TH Hsu, C Sánchez, B Bonakdarpour - … on Tools and Algorithms for the …, 2021 - Springer
This paper introduces a bounded model checking (BMC) algorithm for hyperproperties
expressed in HyperLTL, which—to the best of our knowledge—is the first such algorithm …