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Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
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A Map-Reduce Parallel Approach to Automatic Synthesis of Control Software |
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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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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa |
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Exploiting Transition Locality in Automatic Verification of Finite State Concurrent Systems |
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In this paper we show that statistical properties of the transition graph of a system to be verified can be exploited to improve memory or time performances of verification algorithms. We show experimentally that protocols exhibit transition locality. That is, with respect to levels of a breadth-first state space exploration, state transitions tend to be between states belonging to close levels of the transition graph. We support our claim by measuring transition locality for the set of protocols included in the Mur$\varphi$ verifier distribution. We present a cache-based verification algorithm that exploits transition locality to decrease memory usage and a disk-based verification algorithm that exploits transition locality to decrease disk read accesses, thus reducing the time overhead due to disk usage. Both algorithms have been implemented within the Mur$\varphi$ verifier. Our experimental results show that our cache-based algorithm can typically save more than 40% of memory with an average time penalty of about 50% when using (Mur$\varphi$) bit compression and 100% when using bit compression and hash compaction, whereas our disk-based verification algorithm is typically more than ten times faster than a previously proposed disk-based verification algorithm and, even when using 10% of the memory needed to complete verification, it is only between 40 and 530% (300% on average) slower than (RAM) Mur$\varphi$ with enough memory to complete the verification task at hand. Using just 300 MB of memory our disk-based Mur$\varphi$ was able to complete verification of a protocol with about $10^9$ reachable states. This would require more than 5 GB of memory using standard Mur$\varphi$. |
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Sapienza @ mari @ DIMTZ04j |
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Mari, Federico; Tronci, Enrico |
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CEGAR Based Bounded Model Checking of Discrete Time Hybrid Systems |
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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2007) |
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Model Checking, Abstraction, CEGAR, SAT, Hybrid Systems, DTHS |
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Many hybrid systems can be conveniently modeled as Piecewise Affine Discrete Time Hybrid Systems PA-DTHS. As well known Bounded Model Checking (BMC) for such systems comes down to solve a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) feasibility problem. We present a SAT based BMC algorithm for automatic verification of PA-DTHSs. Using Counterexample Guided Abstraction Refinement (CEGAR) our algorithm gradually transforms a PA-DTHS verification problem into larger and larger SAT problems. Our experimental results show that our approach can handle PA-DTHSs that are more then 50 times larger than those that can be handled using a MILP solver. |
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Bemporad, A.; Bicchi, A.; Buttazzo, G.C. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Sapienza @ mari @ MarTro07 |
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Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico; Alvisi, Lorenzo; Clement, Allen; Li, Harry |
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Model Checking Nash Equilibria in MAD Distributed Systems |
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FMCAD '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design |
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Model Checking, MAD Distributed System, Nash Equilibrium |
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We present a symbolic model checking algorithm for verification of Nash equilibria in finite state mechanisms modeling Multiple Administrative Domains (MAD) distributed systems. Given a finite state mechanism, a proposed protocol for each agent and an indifference threshold for rewards, our model checker returns PASS if the proposed protocol is a Nash equilibrium (up to the given indifference threshold) for the given mechanism, FAIL otherwise. We implemented our model checking algorithm inside the NuSMV model checker and present experimental results showing its effectiveness for moderate size mechanisms. For example, we can handle mechanisms which corresponding normal form games would have more than $10^20$ entries. To the best of our knowledge, no model checking algorithm for verification of mechanism Nash equilibria has been previously published. |
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Piscataway, NJ, USA |
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Cimatti, A.; Jones, R. |
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Sapienza @ mari @ MarMelSalTroAlvCle08 |
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Chierichetti, Flavio; Lattanzi, Silvio; Mari, Federico; Panconesi, Alessandro |
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On Placing Skips Optimally in Expectation |
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Web Search and Web Data Mining (WSDM 2008) |
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We study the problem of optimal skip placement in an inverted list. Assuming the query distribution to be known in advance, we formally prove that an optimal skip placement can be computed quite efficiently. Our best algorithm runs in time O(n log n), n being the length of the list. The placement is optimal in the sense that it minimizes the expected time to process a query. Our theoretical results are matched by experiments with a real corpus, showing that substantial savings can be obtained with respect to the tra- ditional skip placement strategy, that of placing consecutive skips, each spanning sqrt(n) many locations. |
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Najork, M.; Broder, A.Z.; Chakrabarti, S. |
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Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Control Software Synthesis for Quantized Discrete Time Hybrid Systems |
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Proceedings of the 51th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2012, December 10-13, 2012, Maui, HI, USA |
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Techreport version can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4098 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ cdc12 |
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Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
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On Model Based Synthesis of Embedded Control Software |
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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 |
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Ahmed Jerraya and Luca P. Carloni and Florence Maraninchi and John Regehr |
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Techreport version can be found at arxiv.org |
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Sapienza @ mari @ emsoft12 |
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Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
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Linear Constraints as a Modeling Language for Discrete Time Hybrid Systems |
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Proceedings of ICSEA 2012, The Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering Advances |
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Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
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Undecidability of Quantized State Feedback Control for Discrete Time Linear Hybrid Systems |
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Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2012 |
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Roychoudhury, A.; D'Souza, M. |
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Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
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Control Software Visualization |
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Proceedings of INFOCOMP 2012, The Second International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation |
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