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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico; Alvisi, Lorenzo; Clement, Allen; Li, Harry pdf  doi
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  Title Model Checking Nash Equilibria in MAD Distributed Systems Type Conference Article
  Year 2008 Publication FMCAD '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 1-8  
  Keywords Model Checking, MAD Distributed System, Nash Equilibrium  
  Abstract We present a symbolic model checking algorithm for verification of Nash equilibria in finite state mechanisms modeling Multiple Administrative Domains (MAD) distributed systems. Given a finite state mechanism, a proposed protocol for each agent and an indifference threshold for rewards, our model checker returns PASS if the proposed protocol is a Nash equilibrium (up to the given indifference threshold) for the given mechanism, FAIL otherwise. We implemented our model checking algorithm inside the NuSMV model checker and present experimental results showing its effectiveness for moderate size mechanisms. For example, we can handle mechanisms which corresponding normal form games would have more than $10^20$ entries. To the best of our knowledge, no model checking algorithm for verification of mechanism Nash equilibria has been previously published.  
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  Publisher IEEE Press Place of Publication Piscataway, NJ, USA Editor Cimatti, A.; Jones, R.  
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  ISSN 978-1-4244-2735-2 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ MarMelSalTroAlvCle08 Serial 93  
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Author Chierichetti, Flavio; Lattanzi, Silvio; Mari, Federico; Panconesi, Alessandro pdf  doi
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  Title 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 Automatic Control Software Synthesis for Quantized Discrete Time Hybrid Systems Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the 51th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2012, December 10-13, 2012, Maui, HI, USA Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 6120-6125  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-1-4673-2065-8 Medium  
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  Notes Techreport version can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4098 Approved yes  
  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ cdc12 Serial 96  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title 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 Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  openurl
  Title Linear Constraints as a Modeling Language for Discrete Time Hybrid Systems Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of ICSEA 2012, The Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering Advances Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 664-671  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ icsea12 Serial 98  
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  doi
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  Title Undecidability of Quantized State Feedback Control for Discrete Time Linear Hybrid Systems Type Book Chapter
  Year 2012 Publication Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2012 Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 243-258  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Roychoudhury, A.; D'Souza, M.  
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  Series Editor Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume 7521 Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-32942-5 Medium  
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  Notes Approved yes  
  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Mari2012 Serial 99  
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico pdf  openurl
  Title Control Software Visualization Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of INFOCOMP 2012, The Second International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 15-20  
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  ISSN 978-1-61208-226-4 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ infocomp2012 Serial 100  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico file  url
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  Title A Map-Reduce Parallel Approach to Automatic Synthesis of Control Software Type Report
  Year 2012 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume abs/1210.2276 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract Many Control Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems, i.e. 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 control software.
Available algorithms and tools (e.g., QKS) may require weeks or even months of computation to synthesize control software for large-size systems. This motivates search for parallel algorithms for control software synthesis.
In this paper, we present a map-reduce style parallel algorithm for control software synthesis when the controlled system (plant) is modeled as discrete time linear hybrid system. Furthermore we present an MPI-based implementation PQKS of our algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first parallel approach for control software synthesis.
We experimentally show effectiveness of PQKS on two classical control synthesis problems: the inverted pendulum and the multi-input buck DC/DC converter. Experiments show that PQKS efficiency is above 65%. As an example, PQKS requires about 16 hours to complete the synthesis of control software for the pendulum on a cluster with 60 processors, instead of the 25 days needed by the sequential algorithm in QKS.
 
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 101  
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Author Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico url  openurl
  Title 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 Alimguzhin, Vadim; Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Salvo, Ivano; Tronci, Enrico url  openurl
  Title Automatic Control Software Synthesis for Quantized Discrete Time Hybrid Systems Type Report
  Year 2012 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume abs/1207.4098 Issue Pages  
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  Abstract Many Embedded Systems are indeed Software Based Control Systems, 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 embedded systems control software. This paper addresses control software synthesis for discrete time nonlinear systems. We present a methodology to overapproximate the dynamics of a discrete time nonlinear hybrid system H by means of a discrete time linear hybrid system L(H), in such a way that controllers for L(H) are guaranteed to be controllers for H. We present experimental results on the inverted pendulum, a challenging and meaningful benchmark in nonlinear Hybrid Systems control.  
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  Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Serial 103  
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