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Author Sinisi, S.; Alimguzhin, V.; Mancini, T.; Tronci, E. pdf  url
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  Title Reconciling interoperability with efficient Verification and Validation within open source simulation environments Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 102277  
  Keywords Simulation, Verification and Validation, Interoperability, FMI/FMU, Model Exchange, Cyber-Physical Systems  
  Abstract A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) comprises physical as well as software subsystems. Simulation-based approaches are typically used to support design and Verification and Validation (V&V) of CPSs in several domains such as: aerospace, defence, automotive, smart grid and healthcare. Accordingly, many simulation-based tools are available to support CPS design. This, on one side, enables designers to choose the toolchain that best suits their needs, on the other side poses huge interoperability challenges when one needs to simulate CPSs whose subsystems have been designed and modelled using different toolchains. To overcome such an interoperability problem, in 2010 the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) has been proposed as an open standard to support both Model Exchange (ME) and Co-Simulation (CS) of simulation models created with different toolchains. FMI has been adopted by several modelling and simulation environments. Models adhering to such a standard are called Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs). Indeed FMUs play an essential role in defining complex CPSs through, e.g., the System Structure and Parametrization (SSP) standard. Simulation-based V&V of CPSs typically requires exploring different simulation scenarios (i.e., exogenous input sequences to the CPS under design). Many such scenarios have a shared prefix. Accordingly, to avoid simulating many times such shared prefixes, the simulator state at the end of a shared prefix is saved and then restored and used as a start state for the simulation of the next scenario. In this context, an important FMI feature is the capability to save and restore the internal FMU state on demand. This is crucial to increase efficiency of simulation-based V&V. Unfortunately, the implementation of this feature is not mandatory and it is available only within some commercial software. As a result, the interoperability enabled by the FMI standard cannot be fully exploited for V&V when using open-source simulation environments. This motivates developing such a feature for open-source CPS simulation environments. Accordingly, in this paper, we focus on JModelica, an open-source modelling and simulation environment for CPSs based on an open standard modelling language, namely Modelica. We describe how we have endowed JModelica with our open-source implementation of the FMI 2.0 functions needed to save and restore internal states of FMUs for ME. Furthermore, we present experimental results evaluating, through 934 benchmark models, correctness and efficiency of our extended JModelica. Our experimental results show that simulation-based V&V is, on average, 22 times faster with our get/set functionality than without it.  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title Automatic Control Software Synthesis for Quantized Discrete Time Hybrid Systems Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the 51th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2012, December 10-13, 2012, Maui, HI, USA Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 6120-6125  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4673-2065-8 Medium  
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  Notes Techreport version can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4098 Approved yes  
  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ cdc12 Serial 96  
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Author Alimguzhin, V.; Mari, F.; Melatti, I.; Salvo, I.; Tronci, E. pdf  doi
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  Title Linearising Discrete Time Hybrid Systems Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages (down) 5357-5364  
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  Abstract Model Based Design approaches for embedded systems aim at generating correct-by-construction control software, guaranteeing that the closed loop system (controller and plant) meets given system level formal specifications. This technical note addresses control synthesis for safety and reachability properties of possibly non-linear discrete time hybrid systems. By means of syntactical transformations that require non-linear terms to be Lipschitz continuous functions, we over-approximate non-linear dynamics with a linear system whose controllers are guaranteed to be controllers of the original system. We evaluate performance of our approach on meaningful control synthesis benchmarks, also comparing it to a state-of-the-art tool.  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ ref7902199 Serial 164  
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Author Sinisi, S.; Alimguzhin, V.; Mancini, T.; Tronci, E.; Mari, F.; Leeners, B. pdf  doi
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  Title Optimal Personalised Treatment Computation through In Silico Clinical Trials on Patient Digital Twins Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Abbreviated Journal Fundamenta Informaticae  
  Volume 174 Issue Pages (down) 283-310  
  Keywords Artificial Intelligence; Virtual Physiological Human; In Silico Clinical Trials; Simulation; Personalised Medicine; In Silico Treatment Optimisation  
  Abstract In Silico Clinical Trials (ISCT), i.e. clinical experimental campaigns carried out by means of computer simulations, hold the promise to decrease time and cost for the safety and efficacy assessment of pharmacological treatments, reduce the need for animal and human testing, and enable precision medicine. In this paper we present methods and an algorithm that, by means of extensive computer simulation-based experimental campaigns (ISCT) guided by intelligent search, optimise a pharmacological treatment for an individual patient (precision medicine ). We show the effectiveness of our approach on a case study involving a real pharmacological treatment, namely the downregulation phase of a complex clinical protocol for assisted reproduction in humans.  
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  Call Number MCLab @ davi @ Serial 187  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title On Model Based Synthesis of Embedded Control Software Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Embedded Software, EMSOFT 2012, part of the Eighth Embedded Systems Week, ESWeek 2012, Tampere, Finland, October 7-12, 2012 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 227-236  
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  Publisher ACM Place of Publication Editor Ahmed Jerraya and Luca P. Carloni and Florence Maraninchi and John Regehr  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4503-1425-1 Medium  
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  Notes Techreport version can be found at arxiv.org Approved yes  
  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ emsoft12 Serial 97  
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Author Alimguzhin, V.; Mari, F.; Melatti, I.; Tronci, E.; Ebeid, E.; Mikkelsen, S.A.; Jacobsen, R.H.; Gruber, J.K.; Hayes, B.; Huerta, F.; Prodanovic, M. pdf  doi
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  Title A Glimpse of SmartHG Project Test-bed and Communication Infrastructure Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication Digital System Design (DSD), 2015 Euromicro Conference on Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 225-232  
  Keywords Batteries; Control systems; Databases; Production; Sensors; Servers; Smart grids; Grid State Estimation; Peak Shaving; Policy Robustness Verification; Price Policy Synthesis  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ preissler @ Alimguzhin_etal2015 Serial 127  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title On-the-Fly Control Software Synthesis Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2013) Abbreviated Journal International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 61-80  
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  Publisher Springer - Verlag Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume 7976 Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-39175-0 Medium  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 111  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title A Map-Reduce Parallel Approach to Automatic Synthesis of Control Software Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication Proc. of International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2013) Abbreviated Journal International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 43-60  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ melatti @ Serial 112  
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Author Sinisi, S.; Alimguzhin, V.; Mancini, T.; Tronci, E.; Leeners, B. pdf  url
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  Title Complete populations of virtual patients for in silico clinical trials Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Bioinformatics Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages (down) 1-8  
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  Abstract Model-based approaches to safety and efficacy assessment of pharmacological drugs, treatment strategies, or medical devices (In Silico Clinical Trial, ISCT) aim to decrease time and cost for the needed experimentations, reduce animal and human testing, and enable precision medicine. Unfortunately, in presence of non-identifiable models (e.g., reaction networks), parameter estimation is not enough to generate complete populations of Virtual Patient (VPs), i.e., populations guaranteed to show the entire spectrum of model behaviours (phenotypes), thus ensuring representativeness of the trial.We present methods and software based on global search driven by statistical model checking that, starting from a (non-identifiable) quantitative model of the human physiology (plus drugs PK/PD) and suitable biological and medical knowledge elicited from experts, compute a population of VPs whose behaviours are representative of the whole spectrum of phenotypes entailed by the model (completeness) and pairwise distinguishable according to user-provided criteria. This enables full granularity control on the size of the population to employ in an ISCT, guaranteeing representativeness while avoiding over-representation of behaviours.We proved the effectiveness of our algorithm on a non-identifiable ODE-based model of the female Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal axis, by generating a population of 4 830 264 VPs stratified into 7 levels (at different granularity of behaviours), and assessed its representativeness against 86 retrospective health records from Pfizer, Hannover Medical School and University Hospital of Lausanne. The datasets are respectively covered by our VPs within Average Normalised Mean Absolute Error of 15%, 20%, and 35% (90% of the latter dataset is covered within 20% error).  
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  Call Number MCLab @ davi @ ref10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1026 Serial 182  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico file  url
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  Title A Map-Reduce Parallel Approach to Automatic Synthesis of Control Software Type Report
  Year 2012 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume abs/1210.2276 Issue Pages (down)  
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  Abstract Many Control Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems, i.e. control systems whose controller consists of control software running on a microcontroller device. This motivates investigation on Formal Model Based Design approaches for automatic synthesis of control software.
Available algorithms and tools (e.g., QKS) may require weeks or even months of computation to synthesize control software for large-size systems. This motivates search for parallel algorithms for control software synthesis.
In this paper, we present a map-reduce style parallel algorithm for control software synthesis when the controlled system (plant) is modeled as discrete time linear hybrid system. Furthermore we present an MPI-based implementation PQKS of our algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first parallel approach for control software synthesis.
We experimentally show effectiveness of PQKS on two classical control synthesis problems: the inverted pendulum and the multi-input buck DC/DC converter. Experiments show that PQKS efficiency is above 65%. As an example, PQKS requires about 16 hours to complete the synthesis of control software for the pendulum on a cluster with 60 processors, instead of the 25 days needed by the sequential algorithm in QKS.
 
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 101  
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