--- _id: '10774' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study the problem of specifying sequential information-flow properties of systems. Information-flow properties are hyperproperties, as they compare different traces of a system. Sequential information-flow properties can express changes, over time, in the information-flow constraints. For example, information-flow constraints during an initialization phase of a system may be different from information-flow constraints that are required during the operation phase. We formalize several variants of interpreting sequential information-flow constraints, which arise from different assumptions about what can be observed of the system. For this purpose, we introduce a first-order logic, called Hypertrace Logic, with both trace and time quantifiers for specifying linear-time hyperproperties. We prove that HyperLTL, which corresponds to a fragment of Hypertrace Logic with restricted quantifier prefixes, cannot specify the majority of the studied variants of sequential information flow, including all variants in which the transition between sequential phases (such as initialization and operation) happens asynchronously. Our results rely on new equivalences between sets of traces that cannot be distinguished by certain classes of formulas from Hypertrace Logic. This presents a new approach to proving inexpressiveness results for HyperLTL. acknowledgement: This work was funded in part by the Wittgenstein Award Z211-N23 of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and by the FWF project W1255-N23. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ezio full_name: Bartocci, Ezio last_name: Bartocci - first_name: Thomas full_name: Ferrere, Thomas id: 40960E6E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ferrere orcid: 0000-0001-5199-3143 - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 - first_name: Dejan full_name: Nickovic, Dejan id: 41BCEE5C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Nickovic - first_name: Ana Oliveira full_name: Da Costa, Ana Oliveira last_name: Da Costa citation: ama: 'Bartocci E, Ferrere T, Henzinger TA, Nickovic D, Da Costa AO. Flavors of sequential information flow. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol 13182. Springer Nature; 2022:1-19. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94583-1_1' apa: 'Bartocci, E., Ferrere, T., Henzinger, T. A., Nickovic, D., & Da Costa, A. O. (2022). Flavors of sequential information flow. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 13182, pp. 1–19). Philadelphia, PA, United States: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94583-1_1' chicago: Bartocci, Ezio, Thomas Ferrere, Thomas A Henzinger, Dejan Nickovic, and Ana Oliveira Da Costa. “Flavors of Sequential Information Flow.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13182:1–19. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94583-1_1. ieee: E. Bartocci, T. Ferrere, T. A. Henzinger, D. Nickovic, and A. O. Da Costa, “Flavors of sequential information flow,” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Philadelphia, PA, United States, 2022, vol. 13182, pp. 1–19. ista: 'Bartocci E, Ferrere T, Henzinger TA, Nickovic D, Da Costa AO. 2022. Flavors of sequential information flow. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). VMCAI: Verifcation, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, LNCS, vol. 13182, 1–19.' mla: Bartocci, Ezio, et al. “Flavors of Sequential Information Flow.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13182, Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 1–19, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94583-1_1. short: E. Bartocci, T. Ferrere, T.A. Henzinger, D. Nickovic, A.O. Da Costa, in:, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 1–19. conference: end_date: 2022-01-18 location: Philadelphia, PA, United States name: 'VMCAI: Verifcation, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation' start_date: 2022-01-16 date_created: 2022-02-20T23:01:34Z date_published: 2022-01-14T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2022-08-05T09:02:56Z day: '14' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-94583-1_1 external_id: arxiv: - '2105.02013' intvolume: ' 13182' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: ' https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.02013' month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1-19 project: - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) publication_identifier: eissn: - '16113349' isbn: - '9783030945824' issn: - '03029743' publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Flavors of sequential information flow type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13182 year: '2022' ...