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Tronci, Enrico |
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Hardware Verification, Boolean Logic Programming, Boolean Functional Programming |
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1995 |
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Tenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) |
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One of the main obstacles to automatic verification of finite state systems (FSSs) is state explosion. In this respect automatic verification of an FSS M using model checking and binary decision diagrams (BDDs) has an intrinsic limitation: no automatic global optimization of the verification task is possible until a BDD representation for M is generated. This is because systems and specifications are defined using different languages. To perform global optimization before generating a BDD representation for M we propose to use the same language to define systems and specifications. We show that first order logic on a Boolean domain yields an efficient functional programming language that can be used to represent, specify and automatically verify FSSs, e.g. on a SUN Sparc Station 2 we were able to automatically verify a 64 bit commercial multiplier. |
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Tronci, Enrico |
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Equational Programming in Lambda-Calculus via SL-Systems. Part 2 |
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1996 |
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Theoretical Computer Science |
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Tronci, Enrico |
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Equational Programming in Lambda-Calculus via SL-Systems. Part 1 |
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1996 |
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Theoretical Computer Science |
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160 |
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145-184 |
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Pugliese, Rosario; Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Verification of a Hydroelectric Power Plant |
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1996 |
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Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe (FME), Co-Sponsored by IFIP WG 14.3 |
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We analyze the specification of a hydroelectric power plant by ENEL (the Italian Electric Company). Our goal is to show that for the specification of the plant (its control system in particular) some given properties hold. We were provided with an informal specification of the plant. From such informal specification we wrote a formal specification using the CCS/Meije process algebra formalism. We defined properties using μ-calculus. Automatic verification was carried out using model checking. This was done by translating our process algebra definitions (the model) and μ-calculus formulas into BDDs. In this paper we present the informal specification of the plant, its formal specification, some of the properties we verified and experimental results. |
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Oxford, UK |
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Gaudel, M.-C.; Woodcock, J. |
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1051 |
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Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Synthesis of Controllers from Formal Specifications |
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1998 |
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Proc of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM) |
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Many safety critical reactive systems are indeed embedded control systems. Usually a control system can be partitioned into two main subsystems: a controller and a plant. Roughly speaking: the controller observes the state of the plant and sends commands (stimulus) to the plant to achieve predefined goals. We show that when the plant can be modeled as a deterministic finite state system (FSS) it is possible to effectively use formal methods to automatically synthesize the program implementing the controller from the plant model and the given formal specifications for the closed loop system (plant+controller). This guarantees that the controller program is correct by construction. To the best of our knowledge there is no previously published effective algorithm to extract executable code for the controller from closed loop formal specifications. We show practical usefulness of our techniques by giving experimental results on their use to synthesize C programs implementing optimal controllers (OCs) for plants with more than 109 states. |
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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Fantechi, Alessandro; Gnesi, Stefania; Mazzanti, Franco; Pugliese, Rosario; Tronci, Enrico |
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A Symbolic Model Checker for ACTL |
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1998 |
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International Workshop on Current Trends in Applied Formal Method (FM-Trends) |
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We present SAM, a symbolic model checker for ACTL, the action-based version of CTL. SAM relies on implicit representations of Labeled Transition Systems (LTSs), the semantic domain for ACTL formulae, and uses symbolic manipulation algorithms. SAM has been realized by translating (networks of) LTSs and, possibly recursive, ACTL formulae into BSP (Boolean Symbolic Programming), a programming language aiming at defining computations on boolean functions, and by using the BSP interpreter to carry out computations (i.e. verifications). |
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Boppard, Germany |
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Hutter, D.; Stephan, W.; Traverso, P.; Ullmann, M. |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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1641 |
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Tronci, Enrico |
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Formally Modeling a Metal Processing Plant and its Closed Loop Specifications |
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1999 |
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4th IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE) |
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We present a case study on automatic synthesis of control software from formal specifications for an industrial automation control system. Our aim is to compare the effectiveness (i.e. design effort and controller quality) of automatic controller synthesis from closed loop formal specifications with that of manual controller design followed by automatic verification. The system to be controlled (plant) models a metal processing facility near Karlsruhe. We succeeded in automatically generating C code implementing a (correct by construction) embedded controller for such a plant from closed loop formal specifications. Our experimental results show that for industrial automation control systems automatic synthesis is a viable and profitable (especially as far as design effort is concerned) alternative to manual design followed by automatic verification. |
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Tronci, Enrico |
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Automatic Synthesis of Control Software for an Industrial Automation Control System |
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1999 |
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Proc.of: 14th IEEE International Conference on: Automated Software Engineering (ASE) |
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We present a case study on automatic synthesis of control software from formal specifications for an industrial automation control system. Our aim is to compare the effectiveness (i.e. design effort and controller quality) of automatic controller synthesis from closed loop formal specifications with that of manual controller design, followed by automatic verification. Our experimental results show that for industrial automation control systems, automatic synthesis is a viable and profitable (especially as far as design effort is concerned) alternative to manual design, followed by automatic verification. |
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Focardi, Riccardo; Gorrieri, Roberto; Lanotte, Ruggero; Maggiolo-Schettini, Andrea; Martinelli, Fabio; Tini, Simone; Tronci, Enrico |
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Formal Models of Timing Attacks on Web Privacy |
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2002 |
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Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science |
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We model a timing attack on web privacy proposed by Felten and Schneider by using three different approaches: HL-Timed Automata, SMV model checker, and tSPA Process Algebra. Some comparative analysis on the three approaches is derived. |
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TOSCA 2001, Theory of Concurrency, Higher Order Languages and Types |
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Sapienza @ mari @ entcs02a |
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Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa |
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Synchronized Regular Expressions |
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2002 |
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Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. |
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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 stresses the need of more powerful tools to interact with texts. Indeed, much work has been done to provide nonprogramming tools that can be useful for the most common text manipulation issues. Regular Expressions (RE), introduced by Kleene, are well–known in the formal language theory. RE received several extensions, depending on the application of interest. In almost all the implementations of RE search algorithms (e.g. the egrep [A] UNIX command, or the Perl [17] language pattern matching constructs) we find backreferences (as defind in [1]), i.e. expressions that make reference to the string matched by a previous subexpression. Generally speaking, it seems that all the kinds of synchronizations between subexpressions in a RE can be very useful when interacting with texts. Therefore, we introduce the Synchronized Regular Expressions (SRE) as a derivation 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 talking about formalisms that should have a practical utility and can be used in the real world, 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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