Runtime enforcement is a dynamic analysis technique that instruments a monitor with a system in order to ensure its correctness as specified by some property. This paper explores bidirectional enforcement strategies for properties describing the input and output behaviour of a system. We develop an operational framework for bidirectional enforcement and use it to study the enforceability of the safety fragment of Hennessy-Milner logic with recursion (sHML). We provide an automated synthesis function that generates correct monitors from sHML formulas, and show that this logic is enforceable via a specific type of bidirectional enforcement monitors called action disabling monitors.

• 03B70 - Logic in computer science
• 68-XX - Computer science
• 68Q60 - Specification and verification (program logics, model checking, etc.)
• 68Q85 - Models and methods for concurrent and distributed computing (process algebras, bisimulation, transition nets, etc.)