Reactive Synthesis for DECLARE via symbolic automata

Given a specification of linear-time temporal logic interpreted over finite traces (LTLf), the reactive synthesis problem asks to find a finitely-representable, terminating controller that reacts to the uncontrollable actions of an environment in order to enforce a desired system specification. In this paper we study, for the first time, the reactive synthesis problem for DECLARE - a fragment of LTLf extensively used both in theory and practice for specifying declarative, constraint-based business processes. We provide a threefold contribution. First, we give a naive, doubly exponential time synthesis algorithm for this problem. Second, we show how an arbitrary DECLARE specification can be compactly encoded into an equivalent pure past one in LTLf, and we exploit this to define an optimized, singly exponential time algorithm for DECLARE synthesis. Third, we derive a symbolic version of this algorithm, by introducing a novel translation of pure-past temporal formulas into symbolic deterministic finite automata.