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Melatti, Igor; Palmer, Robert; Sawaya, Geoffrey; Yang, Yu; Kirby, Robert Mike; Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh |
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Parallel and Distributed Model Checking in Eddy |
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Conference Article |
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2006 |
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Model Checking Software, 13th International SPIN Workshop, Vienna, Austria, March 30 – April 1, 2006, Proceedings |
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108-125 |
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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 (i) performing overlapped asynchronous message passing, and (ii) 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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Springer - Verlag |
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Valmari, A. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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3925 |
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0302-9743 |
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978-3-540-33102-5 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ Mpsykg06 |
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81 |
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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico |
Title |
Exploiting Hub States in Automatic Verification |
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Conference Article |
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2005 |
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Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis: Third International Symposium, ATVA 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, October 4-7, 2005, Proceedings |
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54-68 |
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In this paper we present a new algorithm to counteract state explosion when using Explicit State Space Exploration to verify protocol-like systems. We sketch the implementation of our algorithm within the Caching Mur$\varphi$ verifier and give experimental results showing its effectiveness. We show experimentally that, when memory is a scarce resource, our algorithm improves on the time performances of Caching Mur$\varphi$ verification algorithm, saving between 16% and 68% (45% on average) in computation time. |
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Springer |
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D.A. Peled; Y.-K. Tsay |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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3707 |
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3-540-29209-8 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ Dimt04 |
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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa |
Title |
Finite Horizon Analysis of Markov Chains with the Mur$\varphi$ Verifier |
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Conference Article |
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2003 |
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Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods, 12th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference, CHARME 2003, L'Aquila, Italy, October 21-24, 2003, Proceedings |
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394-409 |
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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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Geist, D.; Tronci, E. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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2860 |
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3-540-20363-X |
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Sapienza @ mari @ Dimtz03 |
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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa |
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Integrating RAM and Disk Based Verification within the Mur$\varphi$ Verifier |
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Conference Article |
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2003 |
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Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods, 12th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference, CHARME 2003, L'Aquila, Italy, October 21-24, 2003, Proceedings |
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277-282 |
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We present a verification algorithm that can automatically switch from RAM based verification to disk based verification without discarding the work done during the RAM based verification phase. This avoids having to choose beforehand the proper verification algorithm. Our experimental results show that typically our integrated algorithm is as fast as (sometime faster than) the fastest of the two base (i.e. RAM based and disk based) verification algorithms. |
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Springer |
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Geist, D.; Tronci, E. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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2860 |
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3-540-20363-X |
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Sapienza @ mari @ DIMTZ03a |
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85 |
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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Di Marco, Antinisca; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Pierantonio, Alfonso |
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Xere: Towards a Natural Interoperability between XML and ER Diagrams |
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Conference Article |
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2003 |
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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, 6th International Conference, FASE 2003, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2003, Warsaw, Poland, April 7-11, 2003, Proceedings |
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356-371 |
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XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is becoming the standard format for documents on Internet and is widely used to exchange data. Often, the relevant information contained in XML documents needs to be also stored in legacy databases (DB) in order to integrate the new data with the pre-existing ones. In this paper, we introduce a technique for the automatic XML-DB integration, which we call Xere. In particular we present, as the first step of Xere, the mapping algorithm which allows the translation of XML Schemas into Entity-Relationship diagrams. |
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Springer |
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Pezzè, M. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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2621 |
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3-540-00899-3 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ Ddimp03 |
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86 |
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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Magazzeni, Daniele; Tofani, Alberto; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico |
Title |
Automatic Synthesis of Robust Numerical Controllers |
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2007 |
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Icas '07 |
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A major problem of numerical controllers is their robustness, i.e. the state read from the plant may not be in the controller table, although it may be close to some states in the table. For continuous systems, this problem is typically handled by interpolation techniques. Unfortunately, when the plant contains both continuous and discrete variables, the interpolation approach does not work well. To cope with this kind of systems, we propose a general methodology that exploits explicit model checking in an innovative way to automatically synthesize a (time-) optimal numerical controller from a plant specification and apply an optimized strengthening algorithm only on the most significant states, in order to reach an acceptable robustness degree. We implemented all the algorithms within our CGMurphi tool, an extension of the well-known CMurphi verifier, and tested the effectiveness of our approach by applying it to the well-known truck and trailer obstacles avoidance problem. |
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IEEE Computer Society |
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0-7695-2859-5 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ Dmtimt07 |
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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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Conference Article |
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2012 |
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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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6120-6125 |
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IEEE |
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978-1-4673-2065-8 |
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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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96 |
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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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2012 |
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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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227-236 |
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ACM |
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Ahmed Jerraya and Luca P. Carloni and Florence Maraninchi and John Regehr |
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978-1-4503-1425-1 |
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Techreport version can be found at arxiv.org |
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Sapienza @ mari @ emsoft12 |
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97 |
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Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
Title |
Linear Constraints as a Modeling Language for Discrete Time Hybrid Systems |
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2012 |
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Proceedings of ICSEA 2012, The Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering Advances |
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664-671 |
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ThinkMind |
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Sapienza @ mari @ icsea12 |
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Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico |
Title |
Undecidability of Quantized State Feedback Control for Discrete Time Linear Hybrid Systems |
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2012 |
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Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2012 |
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243-258 |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
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Roychoudhury, A.; D'Souza, M. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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7521 |
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978-3-642-32942-5 |
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Sapienza @ mari @ Mari2012 |
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