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	Author	Tronci, Enrico
	Title	Automatic Synthesis of Controllers from Formal Specifications			Type	Conference Article
	Year	1998	Publication	Proc of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	134-143
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	Abstract	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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	Publisher		Place of Publication	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	Editor
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	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ icfem98			Serial	52
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	Author	Cecconi, Michele; Tronci, Enrico
	Title	Requirements Formalization and Validation for a Telecommunication Equipment Protection Switcher			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2000	Publication	Hase	Abbreviated Journal
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	Publisher	IEEE Computer Society	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0-7695-0927-4	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	yes
	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ CeTro00			Serial	29
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	Author	Tronci, Enrico
	Title	Formally Modeling a Metal Processing Plant and its Closed Loop Specifications			Type	Conference Article
	Year	1999	Publication	4th IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	151
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	Abstract	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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	Publisher	IEEE Computer Society	Place of Publication	Washington, D.C, USA	Editor
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	ISSN	0-7695-0418-3	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	yes
	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ hase99			Serial	50
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	Author	Tronci, Enrico
	Title	Automatic Synthesis of Control Software for an Industrial Automation Control System			Type	Conference Article
	Year	1999	Publication	Proc.of: 14th IEEE International Conference on: Automated Software Engineering (ASE)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	247-250
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	Abstract	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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	Publisher		Place of Publication	Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA	Editor
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	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ ase99			Serial	49
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	Author	Tronci, Enrico; Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Venturini Zilli, Marisa
	Title	A Probabilistic Approach to Automatic Verification of Concurrent Systems			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2001	Publication	8th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	317-324
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	Abstract	The main barrier to automatic verification of concurrent systems is the huge amount of memory required to complete the verification task (state explosion). In this paper we present a probabilistic algorithm for automatic verification via model checking. Our algorithm trades space with time. In particular, when memory is full because of state explosion our algorithm does not give up verification. Instead it just proceeds at a lower speed and its results will only hold with some arbitrarily small error probability. Our preliminary experimental results show that by using our probabilistic algorithm we can typically save more than 30% of RAM with an average time penalty of about 100% w.r.t. a deterministic state space exploration with enough memory to complete the verification task. This is better than giving up the verification task because of lack of memory.
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	Publisher	IEEE Computer Society	Place of Publication	Macau, China	Editor
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	ISSN	0-7695-1408-1	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	yes
	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ apsec01			Serial	43
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	Author	Bucciarelli, Antonio; Piperno, Adolfo; Salvo, Ivano
	Title	Intersection types and λ-definability			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2003	Publication	Mathematical Structures in Computer Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	13	Issue	1	Pages	15-53
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	Abstract	This paper presents a novel method for comparing computational properties of λ-terms that are typeable with intersection types, with respect to terms that are typeable with Curry types. We introduce a translation from intersection typing derivations to Curry typeable terms that is preserved by β-reduction: this allows the simulation of a computation starting from a term typeable in the intersection discipline by means of a computation starting from a simply typeable term. Our approach proves strong normalisation for the intersection system naturally by means of purely syntactical techniques. The paper extends the results presented in Bucciarelli et al. (1999) to the whole intersection type system of Barendregt, Coppo and Dezani, thus providing a complete proof of the conjecture, proposed in Leivant (1990), that all functions uniformly definable using intersection types are already definable using Curry types.
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	Publisher	Cambridge University Press	Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA	Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0960-1295	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes				Approved	yes
	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ Bucciarelli-Piperno-Salvo:MSCS-03			Serial	69
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	Author	Coppo, Mario; Dezani-Ciancaglini, Mariangiola; Giovannetti, Elio; Salvo, Ivano
	Title	Mobility Types for Mobile Processes in Mobile Ambients			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2003	Publication	Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	78	Issue		Pages
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	Abstract	We present an ambient-like calculus in which the open capability is dropped, and a new form of Ã¢â‚¬Å“lightweightÃ¢â‚¬Â process mobility is introduced. The calculus comes equipped with a type system that allows the kind of values exchanged in communications and the access and mobility properties of processes to be controlled. A type inference procedure determines the Ã¢â‚¬Å“minimalÃ¢â‚¬Â requirements to accept a system or a component as well typed. This gives a kind of principal typing. As an expressiveness test, we show that some well known calculi of concurrency and mobility can be encoded in our calculus in a natural way.
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	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ Coppo-Dezani-Giovannetti-Salvo:03			Serial	74
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	Author	Focardi, Riccardo; Gorrieri, Roberto; Lanotte, Ruggero; Maggiolo-Schettini, Andrea; Martinelli, Fabio; Tini, Simone; Tronci, Enrico
	Title	Formal Models of Timing Attacks on Web Privacy			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2002	Publication	Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	62	Issue		Pages	229-243
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	Abstract	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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	Notes	TOSCA 2001, Theory of Concurrency, Higher Order Languages and Types			Approved	yes
	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ entcs02a			Serial	47
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	Author	Barbanera, Franco; Dezani-Ciancaglini, Mariangiola; Salvo, Ivano; Sassone, Vladimiro
	Title	A Type Inference Algorithm for Secure Ambients			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2002	Publication	Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	62	Issue		Pages	83-101
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	Abstract	We consider a type discipline for the Ambient Calculus that associates ambients with security levels and constrains them to be traversed by or opened in ambients of higher security clearance only. We present a bottom-up algorithm that, given an untyped process P, computes a minimal set of constraints on security levels such that all actions during runs of P are performed without violating the security level priorities. Such an algorithm appears to be a prerequisite to use type systems to ensure security properties in the web scenario.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	TOSCA 2001, Theory of Concurrency, Higher Order Languages and Types			Approved	yes
	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ Barbanera-Dezani-Salvo-Sassone:01			Serial	73
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	Author	Lanotte, Ruggero; Maggiolo-Schettini, Andrea; Tini, Simone; Troina, Angelo; Tronci, Enrico
	Title	Automatic Analysis of the NRL Pump			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2004	Publication	Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	99	Issue		Pages	245-266
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	Abstract	We define a probabilistic model for the NRL Pump and using FHP-mur$\varphi$ show experimentally that there exists a probabilistic covert channel whose capacity depends on various NRL Pump parameters (e.g. buffer size, number of samples in the moving average, etc).
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	Call Number	Sapienza @ mari @ entcs04			Serial	36
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