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Author Mancini, T.; Mari, F.; Massini, A.; Melatti, I.; Tronci, E. pdf  url
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  Title (up) On Checking Equivalence of Simulation Scripts Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 100640  
  Keywords Formal verification, Simulation based formal verification, Formal Verification of cyber-physical systems, System-level formal verification  
  Abstract To support Model Based Design of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) many simulation based approaches to System Level Formal Verification (SLFV) have been devised. Basically, these are Bounded Model Checking approaches (since simulation horizon is of course bounded) relying on simulators to compute the system dynamics and thereby verify the given system properties. The main obstacle to simulation based SLFV is the large number of simulation scenarios to be considered and thus the huge amount of simulation time needed to complete the verification task. To save on computation time, simulation based SLFV approaches exploit the capability of simulators to save and restore simulation states. Essentially, such a time saving is obtained by optimising the simulation script defining the simulation activity needed to carry out the verification task. Although such approaches aim to (bounded) formal verification, as a matter of fact, the proof of correctness of the methods to optimise simulation scripts basically relies on an intuitive semantics for simulation scripting languages. This hampers the possibility of formally showing that the optimisations introduced to speed up the simulation activity do not actually omit checking of relevant behaviours for the system under verification. The aim of this paper is to fill the above gap by presenting an operational semantics for simulation scripting languages and by proving soundness and completeness properties for it. This, in turn, enables formal proofs of equivalence between unoptimised and optimised simulation scripts.  
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  Call Number MCLab @ davi @ Mancini2021100640 Serial 183  
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Author Mancini, T. ; Mari, F.; Massini, A.; Melatti, I.; Salvo, I.; Tronci, E. pdf  doi
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  Title (up) On minimising the maximum expected verification time Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Information Processing Letters Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 163  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title (up) 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 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, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico url  openurl
  Title (up) On Model Based Synthesis of Embedded Control Software Type Report
  Year 2012 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume abs/1207.4474 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract Many Embedded Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems (SBCSs), that is control systems whose controller consists of control software running on a microcontroller device. This motivates investigation on Formal Model Based Design approaches for control software. Given the formal model of a plant as a Discrete Time Linear Hybrid System and the implementation specifications (that is, number of bits in the Analog-to-Digital (AD) conversion) correct-by-construction control software can be automatically generated from System Level Formal Specifications of the closed loop system (that is, safety and liveness requirements), by computing a suitable finite abstraction of the plant.
With respect to given implementation specifications, the automatically generated code implements a time optimal control strategy (in terms of set-up time), has a Worst Case Execution Time linear in the number of AD bits $b$, but unfortunately, its size grows exponentially with respect to $b$. In many embedded systems, there are severe restrictions on the computational resources (such as memory or computational power) available to microcontroller devices.
This paper addresses model based synthesis of control software by trading system level non-functional requirements (such us optimal set-up time, ripple) with software non-functional requirements (its footprint). Our experimental results show the effectiveness of our approach: for the inverted pendulum benchmark, by using a quantization schema with 12 bits, the size of the small controller is less than 6% of the size of the time optimal one.
 
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 102  
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Author Chierichetti, Flavio; Lattanzi, Silvio; Mari, Federico; Panconesi, Alessandro pdf  doi
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  Title (up) On Placing Skips Optimally in Expectation Type Conference Article
  Year 2008 Publication Web Search and Web Data Mining (WSDM 2008) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 15-24  
  Keywords Information Retrieval  
  Abstract 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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  Publisher Acm Place of Publication Editor Najork, M.; Broder, A.Z.; Chakrabarti, S.  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ ChiLatMar08 Serial 94  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title (up) 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 61-80  
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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 Sinisi, S.; Alimguzhin, V.; Mancini, T.; Tronci, E.; Mari, F.; Leeners, B. pdf  doi
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  Title (up) 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 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 Mancini, T.; Mari, F.; Melatti, I.; Salvo, I.; Tronci, E.; Gruber, J.; Hayes, B.; Prodanovic, M.; Elmegaard, L. pdf  doi
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  Title (up) Parallel Statistical Model Checking for Safety Verification in Smart Grids Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm) Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1-6  
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  Call Number MCLab @ davi @ mancini-etal:2018:smartgridcomm Serial 170  
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Author Tronci, E.; Mancini, T.; Salvo, I.; Mari, F.; Melatti, I.; Massini, A.; Sinisi, S.; Davì, F.; Dierkes, T.; Ehrig, R.; Röblitz, S.; Leeners, B.; Krüger, T.; Egli, M.; Ille, F. pdf  doi
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  Title (up) Patient-Specific Models from Inter-Patient Biological Models and Clinical Records Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) Abbreviated Journal  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 120  
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico url  openurl
  Title (up) Quantized Feedback Control Software Synthesis from System Level Formal Specifications for Buck DC/DC Converters Type Report
  Year 2011 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume abs/1105.5640 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract Many Embedded Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems (SBCSs), that is 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 SBCS control software. In previous works we presented an algorithm, along with a tool QKS implementing it, that from a formal model (as a Discrete Time Linear Hybrid System, DTLHS) of the controlled system (plant), implementation specifications (that is, number of bits in the Analog-to-Digital, AD, conversion) and System Level Formal Specifications (that is, safety and liveness requirements for the closed loop system) returns correct-by-construction control software that has a Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) linear in the number of AD bits and meets the given specifications. In this technical report we present full experimental results on using it to synthesize control software for two versions of buck DC-DC converters (single-input and multi-input), a widely used mixed-mode analog circuit.  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 106  
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