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Item Automata Linear Dynamic Logic on Finite Traces(2021-08-27) Smith, Kevin Wayne; Vardi, Moshe Y.Temporal logics are widely used by the Formal Methods and AI communities. Linear Temporal Logic is a popular temporal logic and is valued for its ease of use as well as its balance between expressiveness and complexity. LTL is equivalent in expressiveness to Monadic First-Order Logic and satisfiability for LTL is PSPACE-complete. Linear Dynamic Logic (LDL), another temporal logic, is equivalent to Monadic Second-Order Logic, but its method of satisfiability checking cannot be applied to a nontrivial subset of LDL formulas. In this thesis I introduce Automata Linear Dynamic Logic on Finite Traces (ALDLf) and show that satisfiability for ALDLf formulas is in PSPACE. A variant of Linear Dynamic Logic on Finite Traces (LDLf), ALDLf combines propositional logic with nondeterministic finite automata (NFA) to express temporal constraints. ALDLf is equivalent in expressiveness to Monadic Second-Order Logic. This is a gain in expressiveness over LTL at no cost.