Giuseppe Della Penna, Benedetto Intrigila, Enrico Tronci, and Marisa Venturini Zilli. "Synchronized regular expressions." Acta Inf. 39, no. 1 (2003): 31–70.
Abstract: Text manipulation is one of the most common tasks for everyone using a computer. The increasing number of textual information in electronic format that every computer user collects everyday also increases the need of more powerful tools to interact with texts. Indeed, much work has been done to provide simple and versatile tools that can be useful for the most common text manipulation tasks. Regular Expressions (RE), introduced by Kleene, are well known in the formal language theory. RE have been extended in various ways, depending on the application of interest. In almost all the implementations of RE search algorithms (e.g. the egrep [15] UNIX command, or the Perl [20] language pattern matching constructs) we find backreferences, i.e. expressions that make reference to the string matched by a previous subexpression. Generally speaking, it seems that all kinds of synchronizations between subexpressions in a RE can be very useful when interacting with texts. In this paper we introduce the Synchronized Regular Expressions (SRE) as an extension of the Regular Expressions. We use SRE to present a formal study of the already known backreferences extension, and of a new extension proposed by us, which we call the synchronized exponents. Moreover, since we are dealing with formalisms that should have a practical utility and be used in real applications, we have the problem of how to present SRE to the final users. Therefore, in this paper we also propose a user-friendly syntax for SRE to be used in implementations of SRE-powered search algorithms.
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Federico Mari, and Enrico Tronci. "CEGAR Based Bounded Model Checking of Discrete Time Hybrid Systems." In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2007), edited by A. Bemporad, A. Bicchi and G. C. Buttazzo, 399–412. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4416. Springer, 2007. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71493-4_32.
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Model Checking, Abstraction, CEGAR, SAT, Hybrid Systems, DTHS
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Flavio Chierichetti, Silvio Lattanzi, Federico Mari, and Alessandro Panconesi. "On Placing Skips Optimally in Expectation." In Web Search and Web Data Mining (WSDM 2008), edited by M. Najork, A. Z. Broder and S. Chakrabarti, 15–24. Acm, 2008. DOI: 10.1145/1341531.1341537.
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.
Keywords: Information Retrieval
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Toni Mancini, Federico Mari, Annalisa Massini, Igor Melatti, and Enrico Tronci. "Simulator Semantics for System Level Formal Verification." In Proceedings Sixth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics and Formal Verification (GandALF 2015),., 2015. DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.193.7.
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Toni Mancini, Federico Mari, Annalisa Massini, Igor Melatti, and Enrico Tronci. "SyLVaaS: System Level Formal Verification as a Service." In Proceedings of the 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2015), special session on Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD)., 2015. DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2015.119.
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Toni Mancini, Enrico Tronci, Ivano Salvo, Federico Mari, Annalisa Massini, and Igor Melatti. "Computing Biological Model Parameters by Parallel Statistical Model Checking." International Work Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2015) 9044 (2015): 542–554. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16480-9_52.
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Vadim Alimguzhin, Federico Mari, Igor Melatti, Ivano Salvo, and Enrico Tronci. "A Map-Reduce Parallel Approach to Automatic Synthesis of Control Software." In Proc. of International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2013), 43–60. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7976. Springer - Verlag, 2013. ISSN: 0302-9743. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39176-7_4.
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Toni Mancini, Federico Mari, Annalisa Massini, Igor Melatti, and Enrico Tronci. "Anytime System Level Verification via Random Exhaustive Hardware In The Loop Simulation." In In Proceedings of 17th EuroMicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2014)., 2014. DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2014.91.
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E. Tronci, T. Mancini, F. Mari, I. Melatti, I. Salvo, M. Prodanovic, J. K. Gruber, B. Hayes, and L. Elmegaard. "Demand-Aware Price Policy Synthesis and Verification Services for Smart Grids." In Proceedings of Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2014 IEEE International Conference On., 2014. DOI: 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2014.7007745.
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E. Tronci, T. Mancini, I. Salvo, F. Mari, I. Melatti, A. Massini, S. Sinisi, F. Davì, T. Dierkes, R. Ehrig et al. "Patient-Specific Models from Inter-Patient Biological Models and Clinical Records." In Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)., 2014. DOI: 10.1109/FMCAD.2014.6987615.
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