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Title Charme Type Conference Article
Year 2003 Publication Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2860 Issue Pages
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Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor Geist, D.; Tronci, E.
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ISSN 3-540-20363-X ISBN Medium
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ editor-charme03 Serial 37
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Author Bucciarelli, Antonio; Salvo, Ivano
Title Totality, Definability and Boolean Circuits Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1443 Issue Pages 808-819
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Abstract In the type frame originating from the flat domain of boolean values, we single out elements which are hereditarily total. We show that these elements can be defined, up to total equivalence, by sequential programs. The elements of an equivalence class of the totality equivalence relation (totality class) can be seen as different algorithms for computing a given set-theoretic boolean function. We show that the bottom element of a totality class, which is sequential, corresponds to the most eager algorithm, and the top to the laziest one. Finally we suggest a link between size of totality classes and a well known measure of complexity of boolean functions, namely their sensitivity.
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ bucciarelli-salvo:98 Serial 70
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Author Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa
Title Exploiting Transition Locality in Automatic Verification of Finite State Concurrent Systems Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Sttt Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 320-341
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Abstract 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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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ DIMTZ04j Serial 91
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Author Tronci, Enrico
Title Introductory Paper Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Sttt Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 4-5 Pages 355-358
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Abstract In today’s competitive market designing of digital systems (hardware as well as software) faces tremendous challenges. In fact, notwithstanding an ever decreasing project budget, time to market and product lifetime, designers are faced with an ever increasing system complexity and customer expected quality. The above situation calls for better and better formal verification techniques at all steps of the design flow. This special issue is devoted to publishing revised versions of contributions first presented at the 12th Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods (CHARME) held 21–24 October 2003 in L’Aquila, Italy. Authors of well regarded papers from CHARME’03 were invited to submit to this special issue. All papers included here have been suitably extended and have undergone an independent round of reviewing.
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ sttt06 Serial 30
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Author Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa
Title Finite horizon analysis of Markov Chains with the Mur$\varphi$ verifier Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue 4 Pages 397-409
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Abstract In this paper we present an explicit disk-based verification algorithm for Probabilistic Systems defining discrete time/finite state Markov Chains. Given a Markov Chain and an integer k (horizon), our algorithm checks whether the probability of reaching an error state in at most k steps is below a given threshold. We present an implementation of our algorithm within a suitable extension of the Mur$\varphi$ verifier. We call the resulting probabilistic model checker FHP-Mur$\varphi$ (Finite Horizon Probabilistic Mur$\varphi$). We present experimental results comparing FHP-Mur$\varphi$ with (a finite horizon subset of) PRISM, a state-of-the-art symbolic model checker for Markov Chains. Our experimental results show that FHP-Mur$\varphi$ can handle systems that are out of reach for PRISM, namely those involving arithmetic operations on the state variables (e.g. hybrid systems).
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Berlin, Heidelberg Editor
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ISSN 1433-2779 ISBN Medium
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Dimtz06 Serial 78
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Author Melatti, Igor; Palmer, Robert; Sawaya, Geoffrey; Yang, Yu; Kirby, Robert Mike; Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh
Title Parallel and distributed model checking in Eddy Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 13-25
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Abstract Model checking of safety properties can be scaled up by pooling the CPU and memory resources of multiple computers. As compute clusters containing 100s of nodes, with each node realized using multi-core (e.g., 2) CPUs will be widespread, a model checker based on the parallel (shared memory) and distributed (message passing) paradigms will more efficiently use the hardware resources. Such a model checker can be designed by having each node employ two shared memory threads that run on the (typically) two CPUs of a node, with one thread responsible for state generation, and the other for efficient communication, including (1) performing overlapped asynchronous message passing, and (2) aggregating the states to be sent into larger chunks in order to improve communication network utilization. We present the design details of such a novel model checking architecture called Eddy. We describe the design rationale, details of how the threads interact and yield control, exchange messages, as well as detect termination. We have realized an instance of this architecture for the Murphi modeling language. Called Eddy_Murphi, we report its performance over the number of nodes as well as communication parameters such as those controlling state aggregation. Nearly linear reduction of compute time with increasing number of nodes is observed. Our thread task partition is done in such a way that it is modular, easy to port across different modeling languages, and easy to tune across a variety of platforms.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Berlin, Heidelberg Editor
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Mpsykg09 Serial 80
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Author Gorrieri, Roberto; Lanotte, Ruggero; Maggiolo-Schettini, Andrea; Martinelli, Fabio; Tini, Simone; Tronci, Enrico
Title Automated analysis of timed security: a case study on web privacy Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication International Journal of Information Security Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue 3-4 Pages 168-186
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Abstract This paper presents a case study on an automated analysis of real-time security models. The case study on a web system (originally proposed by Felten and Schneider) is presented that shows a timing attack on the privacy of browser users. Three different approaches are followed: LH-Timed Automata (analyzed using the model checker HyTech), finite-state automata (analyzed using the model checker NuSMV), and process algebras (analyzed using the model checker CWB-NC). A comparative analysis of these three approaches is given.
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ ijis04 Serial 33
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Author Tronci, Enrico
Title Equational Programming in Lambda-Calculus via SL-Systems. Part 1 Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Theoretical Computer Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 160 Issue 1&2 Pages 145-184
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ tcs96 Serial 54
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Author Tronci, Enrico
Title Equational Programming in Lambda-Calculus via SL-Systems. Part 2 Type Journal Article
Year 1996 Publication Theoretical Computer Science Abbreviated Journal
Volume 160 Issue 1&2 Pages 185-216
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ tcs96a Serial 55
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Author Böhm, Corrado; Tronci, Enrico
Title About Systems of Equations, X-Separability, and Left-Invertibility in the lambda-Calculus Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication Inf. Comput. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 90 Issue 1 Pages 1-32
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ infcomp91 Serial 59
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