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Yoàv Montacute

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FM Conference 2026 Conference Paper

Hybrid Spatiotemporal Logic for Automotive Applications: Modeling and Model-Checking

Radu-Florin Tulcan
Rose Bohrer
Yoàv Montacute
Kevin Zhou
Yusuke Kawamoto 0001
Ichiro Hasuo

Abstract We introduce a hybrid spatiotemporal logic for automotive safety applications (HSTL), focused on highway driving. Spatiotemporal logic features specifications about vehicles throughout space and time, while hybrid logic enables precise references to individual vehicles and their historical positions. We define the semantics of HSTL and provide a baseline model-checking algorithm for it. We propose two optimized model-checking algorithms, which reduce the search space based on the reachable states and possible transitions from one state to another. All three model-checking algorithms are evaluated on a series of common driving scenarios such as safe following, safe crossings, overtaking, and platooning. An exponential performance improvement is observed for the optimized algorithms.

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AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Dynamic Tangled Derivative Logic of Metric Spaces

David Fernández-Duque
Yoàv Montacute

Dynamical systems are abstract models of interaction between space and time. They are often used in fields such as physics and engineering to understand complex processes, but due to their general nature, they have found applications for studying computational processes, interaction in multi-agent systems, machine learning algorithms and other computer science related phenomena. In the vast majority of applications, a dynamical system consists of the action of a continuous `transition function' on a metric space. In this work, we consider decidable formal systems for reasoning about such structures. Spatial logics can be traced back to the 1940's, but our work follows a more dynamic turn that these logics have taken due to two recent developments: the study of the topological mu-calculus, and the the integration of linear temporal logic with logics based on the Cantor derivative. In this paper, we combine dynamic topological logics based on the Cantor derivative and the `next point in time' operators with an expressively complete fixed point operator to produce a combination of the topological mu-calculus with linear temporal logic. We show that the resulting logics are decidable and have a natural axiomatisation. Moreover, we prove that these logics are complete for interpretations on the Cantor space, the rational numbers, and subspaces thereof.

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AAAI Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Untangled: A Complete Dynamic Topological Logic

David Fernández-Duque
Yoàv Montacute

Dynamical systems are general models of change or movement over time with a broad area of applicability to many branches of science, including computer science and AI. Dynamic topological logic (DTL) is a formal framework for symbolic reasoning about dynamical systems. DTL can express various liveness and reachability conditions on such systems, but has the drawback that the only known axiomatisation requires an extended language. In this paper, we consider dynamic topological logic restricted to the class of scattered spaces. Scattered spaces appear in the context of computational logic as they provide semantics for provability and enjoy definable fixed points. We exhibit the first sound and complete dynamic topological logic in the original language of DTL. In particular, we show that the version of DTL based on the class of scattered spaces is finitely axiomatisable, and that the natural axiomatisation is sound and complete.

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CSL Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Dynamic Cantor Derivative Logic

David Fernández-Duque
Yoàv Montacute

Topological semantics for modal logic based on the Cantor derivative operator gives rise to derivative logics, also referred to as d-logics. Unlike logics based on the topological closure operator, d-logics have not previously been studied in the framework of dynamical systems, which are pairs (X, f) consisting of a topological space X equipped with a continuous function f: X → X. We introduce the logics wK4C, K4C and GLC and show that they all have the finite Kripke model property and are sound and complete with respect to the d-semantics in this dynamical setting. In particular, we prove that wK4C is the d-logic of all dynamic topological systems, K4C is the d-logic of all T_D dynamic topological systems, and GLC is the d-logic of all dynamic topological systems based on a scattered space. We also prove a general result for the case where f is a homeomorphism, which in particular yields soundness and completeness for the corresponding systems wK4H, K4H and GLH. The main contribution of this work is the foundation of a general proof method for finite model property and completeness of dynamic topological d-logics. Furthermore, our result for GLC constitutes the first step towards a proof of completeness for the trimodal topo-temporal language with respect to a finite axiomatisation - something known to be impossible over the class of all spaces.

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