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Cesta, Amedeo; Finzi, Alberto; Fratini, Simone; Orlandini, Andrea; Tronci, Enrico |
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Flexible Timeline-Based Plan Verification |
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2009 |
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KI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 32nd Annual German Conference on AI, Paderborn, Germany, September 15-18, 2009. Proceedings |
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49-56 |
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Springer |
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Mertsching, Bärbel; Hund, M.; Aziz, M.Z. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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5803 |
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978-3-642-04616-2 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ Cffot09 |
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Campagnano, Edoardo; Ciancamerla, Ester; Minichino, Michele; Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Analysis of a Safety Critical Tele Control System |
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2005 |
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24th International Conference on: Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP) |
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94-107 |
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We show how the Mur$\varphi$ model checker can be used to automatically carry out safety analysis of a quite complex hybrid system tele-controlling vehicles traffic inside a safety critical transport infrastructure such as a long bridge or a tunnel. We present the Mur$\varphi$ model we developed towards this end as well as the experimental results we obtained by running the Mur$\varphi$ verifier on our model. Our experimental results show that the approach presented here can be used to verify safety of critical dimensioning parameters (e.g. bandwidth) of the telecommunication network embedded in a safety critical system. |
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Fredrikstad, Norway |
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Winther, R.; Gran, B. A.; Dahll, G. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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3688 |
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3-540-29200-4 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ safecomp05 |
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Lanotte, Ruggero; Maggiolo-Schettini, Andrea; Tini, Simone; Troina, Angelo; Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Covert Channel Analysis of a Multilevel Secure Component |
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Conference Article |
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2004 |
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Information and Communications Security, 6th International Conference, ICICS 2004, Malaga, Spain, October 27-29, 2004, Proceedings |
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249-261 |
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The NRL Pump protocol defines a multilevel secure component whose goal is to minimize leaks of information from high level systems to lower level systems, without degrading average time performances. We define a probabilistic model for the NRL Pump and show how a probabilistic model checker (FHP-mur$\varphi$) can be used to estimate the capacity of a probabilistic covert channel in the NRL Pump. We are able to compute the probability of a security violation as a function of time for various configurations of the system parameters (e.g. buffer sizes, moving average size, etc). Because of the model complexity, our results cannot be obtained using an analytical approach and, because of the low probabilities involved, it can be hard to obtain them using a simulator. |
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Lopez, J.; Qing, S.; Okamoto, E. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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3269 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ icics04 |
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Martinelli, Marco; Tronci, Enrico; Dipoppa, Giovanni; Balducelli, Claudio |
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Electric Power System Anomaly Detection Using Neural Networks |
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2004 |
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8th International Conference on: Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES) |
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1242-1248 |
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The aim of this work is to propose an approach to monitor and protect Electric Power System by learning normal system behaviour at substations level, and raising an alarm signal when an abnormal status is detected; the problem is addressed by the use of autoassociative neural networks, reading substation measures. Experimental results show that, through the proposed approach, neural networks can be used to learn parameters underlaying system behaviour, and their output processed to detecting anomalies due to hijacking of measures, changes in the power network topology (i.e. transmission lines breaking) and unexpected power demand trend. |
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Springer |
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Wellington, New Zealand |
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Negoita, M.G.; Howlett, R.J.; Jain, L.C. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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3213 |
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3-540-23318-0 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ kes04 |
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Ciancamerla, Ester; Minichino, Michele; Serro, Stefano; Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Timeliness Verification of a Public Mobile Network |
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Conference Article |
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2003 |
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22nd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP) |
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35-48 |
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This paper deals with the automatic verification of the timeliness of Public Mobile Network (PMN), consisting of Mobile Nodes (MNs) and Base Stations (BSs). We use the Mur$\varphi$ Model Checker to verify that the waiting access time of each MN, under different PMN configurations and loads, and different inter arrival times of MNs in a BS cell, is always below a preassigned threshold. Our experimental results show that Model Checking can be successfully used to generate worst case scenarios and nicely complements probabilistic methods and simulation which are typically used for performance evaluation. |
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Springer |
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Edinburgh, UK |
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Anderson, S.; Felici, M.; Littlewood, B. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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2788 |
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978-3-540-20126-7 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ safecomp03 |
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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa |
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Exploiting Transition Locality in the Disk Based Mur$\varphi$ Verifier |
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2002 |
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4th International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) |
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202-219 |
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The main obstruction to automatic verification of Finite State Systems is the huge amount of memory required to complete the verification task (state explosion). This motivates research on distributed as well as disk based verification algorithms. In this paper we present a disk based Breadth First Explicit State Space Exploration algorithm as well as an implementation of it within the Mur$\varphi$ verifier. Our algorithm exploits transition locality (i.e. the statistical fact that most transitions lead to unvisited states or to recently visited states) to decrease disk read accesses thus reducing the time overhead due to disk usage. A disk based verification algorithm for Mur$\varphi$ has been already proposed in the literature. To measure the time speed up due to locality exploitation we compared our algorithm with such previously proposed algorithm. Our experimental results show that our disk based verification algorithm is typically more than 10 times faster than such previously proposed disk based verification algorithm. To measure the time overhead due to disk usage we compared our algorithm with RAM based verification using the (standard) Mur$\varphi$ verifier with enough memory to complete the verification task. Our experimental results show that even when using 1/10 of the RAM needed to complete verification, our disk based algorithm is only between 1.4 and 5.3 times (3 times on average) slower than (RAM) Mur$\varphi$ with enough RAM memory to complete the verification task at hand. Using our disk based Mur$\varphi$ we were able to complete verification of a protocol with about $10^9$ reachable states. This would require more than 5 gigabytes of RAM using RAM based Mur$\varphi$. |
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Portland, OR, USA |
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Aagaard, M.; O'Leary, J.W. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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2517 |
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3-540-00116-6 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ fmcad02 |
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Gribaudo, Marco; Horváth, Andras; Bobbio, Andrea; Tronci, Enrico; Ciancamerla, Ester; Minichino, Michele |
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Model-Checking Based on Fluid Petri Nets for the Temperature Control System of the ICARO Co-generative Plant |
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Conference Article |
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2002 |
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21st International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP) |
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273-283 |
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The modeling and analysis of hybrid systems is a recent and challenging research area which is actually dominated by two main lines: a functional analysis based on the description of the system in terms of discrete state (hybrid) automata (whose goal is to ascertain for conformity and reachability properties), and a stochastic analysis (whose aim is to provide performance and dependability measures). This paper investigates a unifying view between formal methods and stochastic methods by proposing an analysis methodology of hybrid systems based on Fluid Petri Nets (FPN). It is shown that the same FPN model can be fed to a functional analyser for model checking as well as to a stochastic analyser for performance evaluation. We illustrate our approach and show its usefulness by applying it to a “real world†hybrid system: the temperature control system of a co-generative plant. |
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Springer |
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Catania, Italy |
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Anderson, S.; Bologna, S.; Felici, M. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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2434 |
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3-540-44157-3 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ safecomp02 |
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Tronci, Enrico; Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Venturini Zilli, Marisa |
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Exploiting Transition Locality in Automatic Verification |
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Conference Article |
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2001 |
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11th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods (CHARME) |
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259-274 |
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In this paper we present an algorithm to contrast state explosion when using Explicit State Space Exploration to verify protocols. We show experimentally that protocols exhibit transition locality. We present a verification algorithm that exploits transition locality as well as an implementation of it within the Mur$\varphi$ verifier. Our algorithm is compatible with all Breadth First (BF) optimization techniques present in the Mur$\varphi$ verifier and it is by no means a substitute for any of them. In fact, since our algorithm trades space with time, it is typically most useful when one runs out of memory and has already used all other state reduction techniques present in the Mur$\varphi$ verifier. Our experimental results show that using our approach we can typically save more than 40% of RAM with an average time penalty of about 50% when using (Mur$\varphi$) bit compression and 100% when using bit compression and hash compaction. |
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Livingston, Scotland, UK |
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Margaria, T.; Melham, T.F. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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2144 |
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3-540-42541-1 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ charme01 |
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Fantechi, Alessandro; Gnesi, Stefania; Mazzanti, Franco; Pugliese, Rosario; Tronci, Enrico |
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A Symbolic Model Checker for ACTL |
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1998 |
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International Workshop on Current Trends in Applied Formal Method (FM-Trends) |
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We present SAM, a symbolic model checker for ACTL, the action-based version of CTL. SAM relies on implicit representations of Labeled Transition Systems (LTSs), the semantic domain for ACTL formulae, and uses symbolic manipulation algorithms. SAM has been realized by translating (networks of) LTSs and, possibly recursive, ACTL formulae into BSP (Boolean Symbolic Programming), a programming language aiming at defining computations on boolean functions, and by using the BSP interpreter to carry out computations (i.e. verifications). |
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Boppard, Germany |
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Hutter, D.; Stephan, W.; Traverso, P.; Ullmann, M. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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1641 |
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3-540-66462-9 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ fm-trends98 |
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Pugliese, Rosario; Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Verification of a Hydroelectric Power Plant |
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1996 |
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Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe (FME), Co-Sponsored by IFIP WG 14.3 |
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We analyze the specification of a hydroelectric power plant by ENEL (the Italian Electric Company). Our goal is to show that for the specification of the plant (its control system in particular) some given properties hold. We were provided with an informal specification of the plant. From such informal specification we wrote a formal specification using the CCS/Meije process algebra formalism. We defined properties using μ-calculus. Automatic verification was carried out using model checking. This was done by translating our process algebra definitions (the model) and μ-calculus formulas into BDDs. In this paper we present the informal specification of the plant, its formal specification, some of the properties we verified and experimental results. |
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Oxford, UK |
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Gaudel, M.-C.; Woodcock, J. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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1051 |
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3-540-60973-3 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ fme96 |
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