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The game is played by moving a token throughout a graph to produce an infinite path. There are several common modes to determine how the players move the token through the graph; e.g., in turn-based games the players alternate turns in moving the token. We study the bidding mode of moving the token, which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been studied in infinite-duration games. The following bidding rule was previously defined and called Richman bidding. Both players have separate budgets, which sum up to 1. In each turn, a bidding takes place: Both players submit bids simultaneously, where a bid is legal if it does not exceed the available budget, and the higher bidder pays his bid to the other player and moves the token. The central question studied in bidding games is a necessary and sufficient initial budget for winning the game: a threshold budget in a vertex is a value t ∈ [0, 1] such that if Player 1’s budget exceeds t, he can win the game; and if Player 2’s budget exceeds 1 − t, he can win the game. Threshold budgets were previously shown to exist in every vertex of a reachability game, which have an interesting connection with random-turn games—a sub-class of simple stochastic games in which the player who moves is chosen randomly. We show the existence of threshold budgets for a qualitative class of infinite-duration games, namely parity games, and a quantitative class, namely mean-payoff games. The key component of the proof is a quantitative solution to strongly connected mean-payoff bidding games in which we extend the connection with random-turn games to these games, and construct explicit optimal strategies for both players.","lang":"eng"}],"issue":"4","type":"journal_article","date_published":"2019-07-16T00:00:00Z","publication":"Journal of the ACM","citation":{"mla":"Avni, Guy, et al. “Infinite-Duration Bidding Games.” Journal of the ACM, vol. 66, no. 4, 31, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3340295.","short":"G. Avni, T.A. Henzinger, V.K. Chonev, Journal of the ACM 66 (2019).","chicago":"Avni, Guy, Thomas A Henzinger, and Ventsislav K Chonev. “Infinite-Duration Bidding Games.” Journal of the ACM. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3340295.","ama":"Avni G, Henzinger TA, Chonev VK. Infinite-duration bidding games. Journal of the ACM. 2019;66(4). doi:10.1145/3340295","ista":"Avni G, Henzinger TA, Chonev VK. 2019. Infinite-duration bidding games. Journal of the ACM. 66(4), 31.","ieee":"G. Avni, T. A. Henzinger, and V. K. Chonev, “Infinite-duration bidding games,” Journal of the ACM, vol. 66, no. 4. ACM, 2019.","apa":"Avni, G., Henzinger, T. A., & Chonev, V. K. (2019). Infinite-duration bidding games. Journal of the ACM. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3340295"},"day":"16","article_processing_charge":"No","scopus_import":"1"},{"scopus_import":"1","day":"01","article_processing_charge":"No","article_type":"original","publication":"Journal of the ACM","citation":{"ieee":"T. Ferrere, O. Maler, D. Ničković, and A. Pnueli, “From real-time logic to timed automata,” Journal of the ACM, vol. 66, no. 3. ACM, 2019.","apa":"Ferrere, T., Maler, O., Ničković, D., & Pnueli, A. (2019). From real-time logic to timed automata. Journal of the ACM. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3286976","ista":"Ferrere T, Maler O, Ničković D, Pnueli A. 2019. From real-time logic to timed automata. Journal of the ACM. 66(3), 19.","ama":"Ferrere T, Maler O, Ničković D, Pnueli A. From real-time logic to timed automata. Journal of the ACM. 2019;66(3). doi:10.1145/3286976","chicago":"Ferrere, Thomas, Oded Maler, Dejan Ničković, and Amir Pnueli. “From Real-Time Logic to Timed Automata.” Journal of the ACM. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3286976.","short":"T. Ferrere, O. Maler, D. Ničković, A. Pnueli, Journal of the ACM 66 (2019).","mla":"Ferrere, Thomas, et al. “From Real-Time Logic to Timed Automata.” Journal of the ACM, vol. 66, no. 3, 19, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3286976."},"date_published":"2019-05-01T00:00:00Z","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We show how to construct temporal testers for the logic MITL, a prominent linear-time logic for real-time systems. A temporal tester is a transducer that inputs a signal holding the Boolean value of atomic propositions and outputs the truth value of a formula along time. Here we consider testers over continuous-time Boolean signals that use clock variables to enforce duration constraints, as in timed automata. We first rewrite the MITL formula into a “simple” formula using a limited set of temporal modalities. We then build testers for these specific modalities and show how to compose testers for simple formulae into complex ones. Temporal testers can be turned into acceptors, yielding a compositional translation from MITL to timed automata. This construction is much simpler than previously known and remains asymptotically optimal. It supports both past and future operators and can easily be extended."}],"issue":"3","status":"public","title":"From real-time logic to timed automata","intvolume":" 66","_id":"7109","user_id":"c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1","oa_version":"None","month":"05","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0004-5411"]},"isi":1,"quality_controlled":"1","project":[{"_id":"25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"S 11407_N23","call_identifier":"FWF","name":"Rigorous Systems Engineering"},{"name":"The Wittgenstein Prize","call_identifier":"FWF","grant_number":"Z211","_id":"25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"}],"external_id":{"isi":["000495406300005"]},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1145/3286976","article_number":"19","publication_status":"published","publisher":"ACM","department":[{"_id":"ToHe"}],"year":"2019","date_updated":"2023-09-06T11:11:56Z","date_created":"2019-11-26T10:22:32Z","volume":66,"author":[{"first_name":"Thomas","last_name":"Ferrere","id":"40960E6E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5199-3143","full_name":"Ferrere, Thomas"},{"last_name":"Maler","first_name":"Oded","full_name":"Maler, Oded"},{"full_name":"Ničković, Dejan","last_name":"Ničković","first_name":"Dejan"},{"first_name":"Amir","last_name":"Pnueli","full_name":"Pnueli, Amir"}]},{"year":"2019","publisher":"Springer Nature","department":[{"_id":"CaGu"},{"_id":"ToHe"}],"publication_status":"published","author":[{"full_name":"Guet, Calin C","first_name":"Calin C","last_name":"Guet","id":"47F8433E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-6220-2052"},{"orcid":"0000−0002−2985−7724","id":"40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Henzinger","first_name":"Thomas A","full_name":"Henzinger, Thomas A"},{"full_name":"Igler, Claudia","id":"46613666-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Igler","first_name":"Claudia"},{"last_name":"Petrov","first_name":"Tatjana","orcid":"0000-0002-9041-0905","id":"3D5811FC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Petrov, Tatjana"},{"id":"4C7638DA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Ali","last_name":"Sezgin","full_name":"Sezgin, Ali"}],"volume":11773,"date_created":"2019-12-04T16:07:50Z","date_updated":"2023-09-06T11:18:08Z","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0302-9743"],"eissn":["1611-3349"],"isbn":["9783030313036","9783030313043"]},"month":"09","external_id":{"isi":["000557875100009"]},"project":[{"grant_number":"Z211","_id":"25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"FWF","name":"The Wittgenstein Prize"},{"name":"Design principles underlying genetic switch architecture","grant_number":"24573","_id":"251EE76E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"}],"quality_controlled":"1","isi":1,"doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-31304-3_9","conference":{"end_date":"2019-09-20","start_date":"2019-09-18","location":"Trieste, Italy","name":"CMSB: Computational Methods in Systems Biology"},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"type":"conference","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The expression of a gene is characterised by its transcription factors and the function processing them. If the transcription factors are not affected by gene products, the regulating function is often represented as a combinational logic circuit, where the outputs (product) are determined by current input values (transcription factors) only, and are hence independent on their relative arrival times. However, the simultaneous arrival of transcription factors (TFs) in genetic circuits is a strong assumption, given that the processes of transcription and translation of a gene into a protein introduce intrinsic time delays and that there is no global synchronisation among the arrival times of different molecular species at molecular targets.\r\n\r\nIn this paper, we construct an experimentally implementable genetic circuit with two inputs and a single output, such that, in presence of small delays in input arrival, the circuit exhibits qualitatively distinct observable phenotypes. In particular, these phenotypes are long lived transients: they all converge to a single value, but so slowly, that they seem stable for an extended time period, longer than typical experiment duration. We used rule-based language to prototype our circuit, and we implemented a search for finding the parameter combinations raising the phenotypes of interest.\r\n\r\nThe behaviour of our prototype circuit has wide implications. First, it suggests that GRNs can exploit event timing to create phenotypes. Second, it opens the possibility that GRNs are using event timing to react to stimuli and memorise events, without explicit feedback in regulation. From the modelling perspective, our prototype circuit demonstrates the critical importance of analysing the transient dynamics at the promoter binding sites of the DNA, before applying rapid equilibrium assumptions."}],"_id":"7147","user_id":"c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1","intvolume":" 11773","status":"public","title":"Transient memory in gene regulation","oa_version":"None","scopus_import":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","day":"17","citation":{"ama":"Guet CC, Henzinger TA, Igler C, Petrov T, Sezgin A. Transient memory in gene regulation. In: 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology. Vol 11773. Springer Nature; 2019:155-187. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-31304-3_9","ista":"Guet CC, Henzinger TA, Igler C, Petrov T, Sezgin A. 2019. Transient memory in gene regulation. 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology. CMSB: Computational Methods in Systems Biology, LNCS, vol. 11773, 155–187.","ieee":"C. C. Guet, T. A. Henzinger, C. Igler, T. Petrov, and A. Sezgin, “Transient memory in gene regulation,” in 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Trieste, Italy, 2019, vol. 11773, pp. 155–187.","apa":"Guet, C. C., Henzinger, T. A., Igler, C., Petrov, T., & Sezgin, A. (2019). Transient memory in gene regulation. In 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (Vol. 11773, pp. 155–187). Trieste, Italy: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31304-3_9","mla":"Guet, Calin C., et al. “Transient Memory in Gene Regulation.” 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, vol. 11773, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 155–87, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-31304-3_9.","short":"C.C. Guet, T.A. Henzinger, C. Igler, T. Petrov, A. Sezgin, in:, 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 155–187.","chicago":"Guet, Calin C, Thomas A Henzinger, Claudia Igler, Tatjana Petrov, and Ali Sezgin. “Transient Memory in Gene Regulation.” In 17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, 11773:155–87. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31304-3_9."},"publication":"17th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology","page":"155-187","date_published":"2019-09-17T00:00:00Z"},{"publication":"19th International Conference on Runtime Verification","citation":{"apa":"Ničković, D., Qin, X., Ferrere, T., Mateis, C., & Deshmukh, J. (2019). Shape expressions for specifying and extracting signal features. In 19th International Conference on Runtime Verification (Vol. 11757, pp. 292–309). Porto, Portugal: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32079-9_17","ieee":"D. Ničković, X. Qin, T. 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Extracting temporal segments that encode patterns with useful information out of these huge amounts of data is an extremely difficult problem. We propose shape expressions as a declarative formalism for specifying, querying and extracting sophisticated temporal patterns from possibly noisy data. Shape expressions are regular expressions with arbitrary (linear, exponential, sinusoidal, etc.) shapes with parameters as atomic predicates and additional constraints on these parameters. We equip shape expressions with a novel noisy semantics that combines regular expression matching semantics with statistical regression. We characterize essential properties of the formalism and propose an efficient approximate shape expression matching procedure. We demonstrate the wide applicability of this technique on two case studies. 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PBT has advantages over traditional time-step based methods in dealing with those nonlinear dynamical systems in which there is a large difference in speed between trajectories, producing an overapproximation that is time independent. However, the existing approach for PBT is not efficient due to the application of interval methods for enclosure-box computation, and it can only deal with continuous dynamical systems without uncertainty. In this paper, we extend the approach with the ability to handle both continuous and hybrid dynamical systems with uncertainty that can reside in parameters and/or noise. We also improve the efficiency of the method significantly, by avoiding the use of interval-based methods for the enclosure-box computation without loosing soundness. We have developed a C++ prototype implementing the proposed approach and we evaluate it on several benchmarks. The experiments show that our approach is more efficient and precise than other methods in the literature."}],"_id":"7231","user_id":"c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1","title":"Piecewise robust barrier tubes for nonlinear hybrid systems with uncertainty","status":"public","intvolume":" 11750","oa_version":"Preprint","scopus_import":"1","day":"13","article_processing_charge":"No","publication":"17th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems","citation":{"ista":"Kong H, Bartocci E, Jiang Y, Henzinger TA. 2019. Piecewise robust barrier tubes for nonlinear hybrid systems with uncertainty. 17th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems. FORMATS: Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, LNCS, vol. 11750, 123–141.","apa":"Kong, H., Bartocci, E., Jiang, Y., & Henzinger, T. A. (2019). Piecewise robust barrier tubes for nonlinear hybrid systems with uncertainty. 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