--- _id: '79' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a popular class of models suitable for solving control decision problems in probabilistic reactive systems. We consider parametric MDPs (pMDPs) that include parameters in some of the transition probabilities to account for stochastic uncertainties of the environment such as noise or input disturbances. We study pMDPs with reachability objectives where the parameter values are unknown and impossible to measure directly during execution, but there is a probability distribution known over the parameter values. We study for the first time computing parameter-independent strategies that are expectation optimal, i.e., optimize the expected reachability probability under the probability distribution over the parameters. We present an encoding of our problem to partially observable MDPs (POMDPs), i.e., a reduction of our problem to computing optimal strategies in POMDPs. We evaluate our method experimentally on several benchmarks: a motivating (repeated) learner model; a series of benchmarks of varying configurations of a robot moving on a grid; and a consensus protocol.' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Sebastian full_name: Arming, Sebastian last_name: Arming - first_name: Ezio full_name: Bartocci, Ezio last_name: Bartocci - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Joost P full_name: Katoen, Joost P id: 4524F760-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Katoen - first_name: Ana full_name: Sokolova, Ana last_name: Sokolova citation: ama: 'Arming S, Bartocci E, Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Sokolova A. Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs. In: Vol 11024. Springer; 2018:53-70. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4' apa: 'Arming, S., Bartocci, E., Chatterjee, K., Katoen, J. P., & Sokolova, A. (2018). Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs (Vol. 11024, pp. 53–70). Presented at the QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Beijing, China: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4' chicago: Arming, Sebastian, Ezio Bartocci, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Joost P Katoen, and Ana Sokolova. “Parameter-Independent Strategies for PMDPs via POMDPs,” 11024:53–70. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4. ieee: 'S. Arming, E. Bartocci, K. Chatterjee, J. P. Katoen, and A. Sokolova, “Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs,” presented at the QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Beijing, China, 2018, vol. 11024, pp. 53–70.' ista: 'Arming S, Bartocci E, Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Sokolova A. 2018. Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs. QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, LNCS, vol. 11024, 53–70.' mla: Arming, Sebastian, et al. Parameter-Independent Strategies for PMDPs via POMDPs. Vol. 11024, Springer, 2018, pp. 53–70, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4. short: S. Arming, E. Bartocci, K. Chatterjee, J.P. Katoen, A. Sokolova, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 53–70. conference: end_date: 2018-09-07 location: Beijing, China name: 'QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems' start_date: 2018-09-04 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:31Z date_published: 2018-08-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T09:38:28Z day: '15' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4 external_id: arxiv: - '1806.05126' isi: - '000548912200004' intvolume: ' 11024' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05126 month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 53-70 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7975' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 11024 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '142' abstract: - lang: eng text: We address the problem of analyzing the reachable set of a polynomial nonlinear continuous system by over-approximating the flowpipe of its dynamics. The common approach to tackle this problem is to perform a numerical integration over a given time horizon based on Taylor expansion and interval arithmetic. However, this method results to be very conservative when there is a large difference in speed between trajectories as time progresses. In this paper, we propose to use combinations of barrier functions, which we call piecewise barrier tube (PBT), to over-approximate flowpipe. The basic idea of PBT is that for each segment of a flowpipe, a coarse box which is big enough to contain the segment is constructed using sampled simulation and then in the box we compute by linear programming a set of barrier functions (called barrier tube or BT for short) which work together to form a tube surrounding the flowpipe. The benefit of using PBT is that (1) BT is independent of time and hence can avoid being stretched and deformed by time; and (2) a small number of BTs can form a tight over-approximation for the flowpipe, which means that the computation required to decide whether the BTs intersect the unsafe set can be reduced significantly. We implemented a prototype called PBTS in C++. Experiments on some benchmark systems show that our approach is effective. acknowledgement: 'Austrian Science Fund FWF: S11402-N23, S11405-N23, Z211-N32' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Hui full_name: Kong, Hui id: 3BDE25AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kong orcid: 0000-0002-3066-6941 - first_name: Ezio full_name: Bartocci, Ezio last_name: Bartocci - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 citation: ama: 'Kong H, Bartocci E, Henzinger TA. Reachable set over-approximation for nonlinear systems using piecewise barrier tubes. In: Vol 10981. Springer; 2018:449-467. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_24' apa: 'Kong, H., Bartocci, E., & Henzinger, T. A. (2018). Reachable set over-approximation for nonlinear systems using piecewise barrier tubes (Vol. 10981, pp. 449–467). Presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Oxford, United Kingdom: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_24' chicago: Kong, Hui, Ezio Bartocci, and Thomas A Henzinger. “Reachable Set Over-Approximation for Nonlinear Systems Using Piecewise Barrier Tubes,” 10981:449–67. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_24. ieee: 'H. Kong, E. Bartocci, and T. A. Henzinger, “Reachable set over-approximation for nonlinear systems using piecewise barrier tubes,” presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018, vol. 10981, pp. 449–467.' ista: 'Kong H, Bartocci E, Henzinger TA. 2018. Reachable set over-approximation for nonlinear systems using piecewise barrier tubes. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 10981, 449–467.' mla: Kong, Hui, et al. Reachable Set Over-Approximation for Nonlinear Systems Using Piecewise Barrier Tubes. Vol. 10981, Springer, 2018, pp. 449–67, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_24. short: H. Kong, E. Bartocci, T.A. Henzinger, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 449–467. conference: end_date: 2018-07-17 location: Oxford, United Kingdom name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification' start_date: 2018-07-14 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:51Z date_published: 2018-07-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-15T12:12:08Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_24 external_id: isi: - '000491481600024' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: fd95e8026deacef3dc752a733bb9355f content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-17T15:57:06Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:53Z file_id: '5718' file_name: 2018_LNCS_Kong.pdf file_size: 5591566 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:53Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10981' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 449 - 467 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7781' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Reachable set over-approximation for nonlinear systems using piecewise barrier tubes tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 10981 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '434' abstract: - lang: eng text: In this paper, we present a formal model-driven design approach to establish a safety-assured implementation of multifunction vehicle bus controller (MVBC), which controls the data transmission among the devices of the vehicle. First, the generic models and safety requirements described in International Electrotechnical Commission Standard 61375 are formalized as time automata and timed computation tree logic formulas, respectively. With model checking tool Uppaal, we verify whether or not the constructed timed automata satisfy the formulas and several logic inconsistencies in the original standard are detected and corrected. Then, we apply the code generation tool Times to generate C code from the verified model, which is later synthesized into a real MVBC chip, with some handwriting glue code. Furthermore, the runtime verification tool RMOR is applied on the integrated code, to verify some safety requirements that cannot be formalized on the timed automata. For evaluation, we compare the proposed approach with existing MVBC design methods, such as BeagleBone, Galsblock, and Simulink. Experiments show that more ambiguousness or bugs in the standard are detected during Uppaal verification, and the generated code of Times outperforms the C code generated by others in terms of the synthesized binary code size. The errors in the standard have been confirmed and the resulting MVBC has been deployed in the real train communication network. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Yu full_name: Jiang, Yu last_name: Jiang - first_name: Han full_name: Liu, Han last_name: Liu - first_name: Huobing full_name: Song, Huobing last_name: Song - first_name: Hui full_name: Kong, Hui id: 3BDE25AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kong orcid: 0000-0002-3066-6941 - first_name: Rui full_name: Wang, Rui last_name: Wang - first_name: Yong full_name: Guan, Yong last_name: Guan - first_name: Lui full_name: Sha, Lui last_name: Sha citation: ama: Jiang Y, Liu H, Song H, et al. Safety-assured model-driven design of the multifunction vehicle bus controller. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2018;19(10):3320-3333. doi:10.1109/TITS.2017.2778077 apa: Jiang, Y., Liu, H., Song, H., Kong, H., Wang, R., Guan, Y., & Sha, L. (2018). Safety-assured model-driven design of the multifunction vehicle bus controller. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2778077 chicago: Jiang, Yu, Han Liu, Huobing Song, Hui Kong, Rui Wang, Yong Guan, and Lui Sha. “Safety-Assured Model-Driven Design of the Multifunction Vehicle Bus Controller.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2778077. ieee: Y. Jiang et al., “Safety-assured model-driven design of the multifunction vehicle bus controller,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 19, no. 10. IEEE, pp. 3320–3333, 2018. ista: Jiang Y, Liu H, Song H, Kong H, Wang R, Guan Y, Sha L. 2018. Safety-assured model-driven design of the multifunction vehicle bus controller. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 19(10), 3320–3333. mla: Jiang, Yu, et al. “Safety-Assured Model-Driven Design of the Multifunction Vehicle Bus Controller.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 19, no. 10, IEEE, 2018, pp. 3320–33, doi:10.1109/TITS.2017.2778077. short: Y. Jiang, H. Liu, H. Song, H. Kong, R. Wang, Y. Guan, L. Sha, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 19 (2018) 3320–3333. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:27Z date_published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-18T08:12:49Z day: '01' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1109/TITS.2017.2778077 external_id: isi: - '000446651100020' intvolume: ' 19' isi: 1 issue: '10' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa_version: None page: 3320 - 3333 publication: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '7389' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1205' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Safety-assured model-driven design of the multifunction vehicle bus controller type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 19 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '140' abstract: - lang: eng text: Reachability analysis is difficult for hybrid automata with affine differential equations, because the reach set needs to be approximated. Promising abstraction techniques usually employ interval methods or template polyhedra. Interval methods account for dense time and guarantee soundness, and there are interval-based tools that overapproximate affine flowpipes. But interval methods impose bounded and rigid shapes, which make refinement expensive and fixpoint detection difficult. Template polyhedra, on the other hand, can be adapted flexibly and can be unbounded, but sound template refinement for unbounded reachability analysis has been implemented only for systems with piecewise constant dynamics. We capitalize on the advantages of both techniques, combining interval arithmetic and template polyhedra, using the former to abstract time and the latter to abstract space. During a CEGAR loop, whenever a spurious error trajectory is found, we compute additional space constraints and split time intervals, and use these space-time interpolants to eliminate the counterexample. Space-time interpolation offers a lazy, flexible framework for increasing precision while guaranteeing soundness, both for error avoidance and fixpoint detection. To the best of out knowledge, this is the first abstraction refinement scheme for the reachability analysis over unbounded and dense time of affine hybrid systems, which is both sound and automatic. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm with several benchmark examples, which cannot be handled by other tools. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Goran full_name: Frehse, Goran last_name: Frehse - first_name: Mirco full_name: Giacobbe, Mirco id: 3444EA5E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Giacobbe orcid: 0000-0001-8180-0904 - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 citation: ama: 'Frehse G, Giacobbe M, Henzinger TA. Space-time interpolants. In: Vol 10981. Springer; 2018:468-486. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_25' apa: 'Frehse, G., Giacobbe, M., & Henzinger, T. A. (2018). Space-time interpolants (Vol. 10981, pp. 468–486). Presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Oxford, United Kingdom: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_25' chicago: Frehse, Goran, Mirco Giacobbe, and Thomas A Henzinger. “Space-Time Interpolants,” 10981:468–86. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_25. ieee: 'G. Frehse, M. Giacobbe, and T. A. Henzinger, “Space-time interpolants,” presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018, vol. 10981, pp. 468–486.' ista: 'Frehse G, Giacobbe M, Henzinger TA. 2018. Space-time interpolants. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 10981, 468–486.' mla: Frehse, Goran, et al. Space-Time Interpolants. Vol. 10981, Springer, 2018, pp. 468–86, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_25. short: G. Frehse, M. Giacobbe, T.A. Henzinger, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 468–486. conference: end_date: 2018-07-17 location: Oxford, United Kingdom name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification' start_date: 2018-07-14 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:50Z date_published: 2018-07-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T09:30:43Z day: '18' ddc: - '005' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-96145-3_25 external_id: isi: - '000491481600025' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 6dca832f575d6b3f0ea9dff56f579142 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:17:53Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:50Z file_id: '5310' file_name: IST-2018-1010-v1+1_space-time_interpolants.pdf file_size: 563710 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:50Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10981' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 468 - 486 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F5A88A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Moderne Concurrency Paradigms publication_identifier: issn: - '03029743' publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7783' pubrep_id: '1010' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '6894' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Space-time interpolants tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 10981 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '297' abstract: - lang: eng text: Graph games played by two players over finite-state graphs are central in many problems in computer science. In particular, graph games with ω -regular winning conditions, specified as parity objectives, which can express properties such as safety, liveness, fairness, are the basic framework for verification and synthesis of reactive systems. The decisions for a player at various states of the graph game are represented as strategies. While the algorithmic problem for solving graph games with parity objectives has been widely studied, the most prominent data-structure for strategy representation in graph games has been binary decision diagrams (BDDs). However, due to the bit-level representation, BDDs do not retain the inherent flavor of the decisions of strategies, and are notoriously hard to minimize to obtain succinct representation. In this work we propose decision trees for strategy representation in graph games. Decision trees retain the flavor of decisions of strategies and allow entropy-based minimization to obtain succinct trees. However, decision trees work in settings (e.g., probabilistic models) where errors are allowed, and overfitting of data is typically avoided. In contrast, for strategies in graph games no error is allowed, and the decision tree must represent the entire strategy. We develop new techniques to extend decision trees to overcome the above obstacles, while retaining the entropy-based techniques to obtain succinct trees. We have implemented our techniques to extend the existing decision tree solvers. We present experimental results for problems in reactive synthesis to show that decision trees provide a much more efficient data-structure for strategy representation as compared to BDDs. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Tomáš full_name: Brázdil, Tomáš last_name: Brázdil - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Jan full_name: Kretinsky, Jan id: 44CEF464-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kretinsky orcid: 0000-0002-8122-2881 - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Toman V. Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis. In: Vol 10805. Springer; 2018:385-407. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21' apa: 'Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Kretinsky, J., & Toman, V. (2018). Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis (Vol. 10805, pp. 385–407). Presented at the TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21' chicago: Brázdil, Tomáš, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Kretinsky, and Viktor Toman. “Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive Synthesis,” 10805:385–407. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21. ieee: 'T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, and V. Toman, “Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis,” presented at the TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2018, vol. 10805, pp. 385–407.' ista: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Toman V. 2018. Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis. TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 10805, 385–407.' mla: Brázdil, Tomáš, et al. Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive Synthesis. Vol. 10805, Springer, 2018, pp. 385–407, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21. short: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, V. Toman, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 385–407. conference: end_date: 2018-04-20 location: Thessaloniki, Greece name: 'TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' start_date: 2018-04-14 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:41Z date_published: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T09:57:08Z day: '12' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000546326300021' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: b13874ffb114932ad9cc2586b7469db4 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-17T16:29:08Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:57Z file_id: '5723' file_name: 2018_LNCS_Brazdil.pdf file_size: 1829940 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:57Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10805' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 385 - 407 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7584' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 10805 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '608' abstract: - lang: eng text: Synthesis is the automated construction of a system from its specification. In real life, hardware and software systems are rarely constructed from scratch. Rather, a system is typically constructed from a library of components. Lustig and Vardi formalized this intuition and studied LTL synthesis from component libraries. In real life, designers seek optimal systems. In this paper we add optimality considerations to the setting. We distinguish between quality considerations (for example, size - the smaller a system is, the better it is), and pricing (for example, the payment to the company who manufactured the component). We study the problem of designing systems with minimal quality-cost and price. A key point is that while the quality cost is individual - the choices of a designer are independent of choices made by other designers that use the same library, pricing gives rise to a resource-allocation game - designers that use the same component share its price, with the share being proportional to the number of uses (a component can be used several times in a design). We study both closed and open settings, and in both we solve the problem of finding an optimal design. In a setting with multiple designers, we also study the game-theoretic problems of the induced resource-allocation game. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Guy full_name: Avni, Guy id: 463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Avni orcid: 0000-0001-5588-8287 - first_name: Orna full_name: Kupferman, Orna last_name: Kupferman citation: ama: Avni G, Kupferman O. Synthesis from component libraries with costs. Theoretical Computer Science. 2018;712:50-72. doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2017.11.001 apa: Avni, G., & Kupferman, O. (2018). Synthesis from component libraries with costs. Theoretical Computer Science. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2017.11.001 chicago: Avni, Guy, and Orna Kupferman. “Synthesis from Component Libraries with Costs.” Theoretical Computer Science. Elsevier, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2017.11.001. ieee: G. Avni and O. Kupferman, “Synthesis from component libraries with costs,” Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 712. Elsevier, pp. 50–72, 2018. ista: Avni G, Kupferman O. 2018. Synthesis from component libraries with costs. Theoretical Computer Science. 712, 50–72. mla: Avni, Guy, and Orna Kupferman. “Synthesis from Component Libraries with Costs.” Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 712, Elsevier, 2018, pp. 50–72, doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2017.11.001. short: G. Avni, O. Kupferman, Theoretical Computer Science 712 (2018) 50–72. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:28Z date_published: 2018-02-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:00:21Z day: '15' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1016/j.tcs.2017.11.001 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000424959200003' intvolume: ' 712' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.636.4529 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 50 - 72 project: - _id: 25EE3708-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '267989' name: Quantitative Reactive Modeling - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication: Theoretical Computer Science publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier publist_id: '7197' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Synthesis from component libraries with costs type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 712 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '156' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Imprecision in timing can sometimes be beneficial: Metric interval temporal logic (MITL), disabling the expression of punctuality constraints, was shown to translate to timed automata, yielding an elementary decision procedure. We show how this principle extends to other forms of dense-time specification using regular expressions. By providing a clean, automaton-based formal framework for non-punctual languages, we are able to recover and extend several results in timed systems. Metric interval regular expressions (MIRE) are introduced, providing regular expressions with non-singular duration constraints. We obtain that MIRE are expressively complete relative to a class of one-clock timed automata, which can be determinized using additional clocks. Metric interval dynamic logic (MIDL) is then defined using MIRE as temporal modalities. We show that MIDL generalizes known extensions of MITL, while translating to timed automata at comparable cost.' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Thomas full_name: Ferrere, Thomas id: 40960E6E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ferrere orcid: 0000-0001-5199-3143 citation: ama: 'Ferrere T. The compound interest in relaxing punctuality. In: Vol 10951. Springer; 2018:147-164. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_9' apa: 'Ferrere, T. (2018). The compound interest in relaxing punctuality (Vol. 10951, pp. 147–164). Presented at the FM: International Symposium on Formal Methods, Oxford, UK: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_9' chicago: Ferrere, Thomas. “The Compound Interest in Relaxing Punctuality,” 10951:147–64. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_9. ieee: 'T. Ferrere, “The compound interest in relaxing punctuality,” presented at the FM: International Symposium on Formal Methods, Oxford, UK, 2018, vol. 10951, pp. 147–164.' ista: 'Ferrere T. 2018. The compound interest in relaxing punctuality. FM: International Symposium on Formal Methods, LNCS, vol. 10951, 147–164.' mla: Ferrere, Thomas. The Compound Interest in Relaxing Punctuality. Vol. 10951, Springer, 2018, pp. 147–64, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_9. short: T. Ferrere, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 147–164. conference: end_date: 2018-07-17 location: Oxford, UK name: 'FM: International Symposium on Formal Methods' start_date: 2018-07-15 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:55Z date_published: 2018-07-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:05:37Z day: '12' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_9 external_id: isi: - '000489765800009' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: a045c213c42c445f1889326f8db82a0a content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-10-09T06:22:41Z date_updated: 2020-10-09T06:22:41Z file_id: '8637' file_name: 2018_LNCS_Ferrere.pdf file_size: 485576 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-10-09T06:22:41Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10951' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 147 - 164 project: - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7765' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The compound interest in relaxing punctuality type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 10951 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5959' abstract: - lang: eng text: Formalizing properties of systems with continuous dynamics is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a formal framework for specifying and monitoring rich temporal properties of real-valued signals. We introduce signal first-order logic (SFO) as a specification language that combines first-order logic with linear-real arithmetic and unary function symbols interpreted as piecewise-linear signals. We first show that while the satisfiability problem for SFO is undecidable, its membership and monitoring problems are decidable. We develop an offline monitoring procedure for SFO that has polynomial complexity in the size of the input trace and the specification, for a fixed number of quantifiers and function symbols. We show that the algorithm has computation time linear in the size of the input trace for the important fragment of bounded-response specifications interpreted over input traces with finite variability. We can use our results to extend signal temporal logic with first-order quantifiers over time and value parameters, while preserving its efficient monitoring. We finally demonstrate the practical appeal of our logic through a case study in the micro-electronics domain. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Alexey full_name: Bakhirkin, Alexey last_name: Bakhirkin - first_name: Thomas full_name: Ferrere, Thomas id: 40960E6E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ferrere orcid: 0000-0001-5199-3143 - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Deian full_name: Nickovicl, Deian last_name: Nickovicl citation: ama: 'Bakhirkin A, Ferrere T, Henzinger TA, Nickovicl D. Keynote: The first-order logic of signals. In: 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software. IEEE; 2018:1-10. doi:10.1109/emsoft.2018.8537203' apa: 'Bakhirkin, A., Ferrere, T., Henzinger, T. A., & Nickovicl, D. (2018). Keynote: The first-order logic of signals. In 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software (pp. 1–10). Turin, Italy: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/emsoft.2018.8537203' chicago: 'Bakhirkin, Alexey, Thomas Ferrere, Thomas A Henzinger, and Deian Nickovicl. “Keynote: The First-Order Logic of Signals.” In 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software, 1–10. IEEE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/emsoft.2018.8537203.' ieee: 'A. Bakhirkin, T. Ferrere, T. A. Henzinger, and D. Nickovicl, “Keynote: The first-order logic of signals,” in 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software, Turin, Italy, 2018, pp. 1–10.' ista: 'Bakhirkin A, Ferrere T, Henzinger TA, Nickovicl D. 2018. Keynote: The first-order logic of signals. 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software. EMSOFT: International Conference on Embedded Software, 1–10.' mla: 'Bakhirkin, Alexey, et al. “Keynote: The First-Order Logic of Signals.” 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software, IEEE, 2018, pp. 1–10, doi:10.1109/emsoft.2018.8537203.' short: A. Bakhirkin, T. Ferrere, T.A. Henzinger, D. Nickovicl, in:, 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software, IEEE, 2018, pp. 1–10. conference: end_date: 2018-10-05 location: Turin, Italy name: 'EMSOFT: International Conference on Embedded Software' start_date: 2018-09-30 date_created: 2019-02-13T09:19:28Z date_published: 2018-09-30T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:41:29Z day: '30' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1109/emsoft.2018.8537203 external_id: isi: - '000492828500005' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 234a33ad9055b3458fcdda6af251b33a content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-05-14T16:01:29Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:13Z file_id: '7839' file_name: 2018_EMSOFT_Bakhirkin.pdf file_size: 338006 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:13Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 1-10 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication: 2018 International Conference on Embedded Software publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781538655603' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Keynote: The first-order logic of signals' type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '24' abstract: - lang: eng text: Partially-observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with discounted-sum payoff are a standard framework to model a wide range of problems related to decision making under uncertainty. Traditionally, the goal has been to obtain policies that optimize the expectation of the discounted-sum payoff. A key drawback of the expectation measure is that even low probability events with extreme payoff can significantly affect the expectation, and thus the obtained policies are not necessarily risk-averse. An alternate approach is to optimize the probability that the payoff is above a certain threshold, which allows obtaining risk-averse policies, but ignores optimization of the expectation. We consider the expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantee (EOPG) problem, where the goal is to optimize the expectation ensuring that the payoff is above a given threshold with at least a specified probability. We present several results on the EOPG problem, including the first algorithm to solve it. acknowledgement: "This research was supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) grant ICT15-003; Austrian Science Fund (FWF): S11407-N23(RiSE/SHiNE);and an ERC Start Grant (279307:Graph Games).\r\n" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Adrian full_name: Elgyütt, Adrian id: 4A2E9DBA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Elgyütt - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotny, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotny - first_name: Owen full_name: Rouillé, Owen last_name: Rouillé citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Elgyütt A, Novotný P, Rouillé O. Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives. In: Vol 2018. IJCAI; 2018:4692-4699. doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/652' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Elgyütt, A., Novotný, P., & Rouillé, O. (2018). Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives (Vol. 2018, pp. 4692–4699). Presented at the IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden: IJCAI. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/652' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Adrian Elgyütt, Petr Novotný, and Owen Rouillé. “Expectation Optimization with Probabilistic Guarantees in POMDPs with Discounted-Sum Objectives,” 2018:4692–99. IJCAI, 2018. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/652. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. Elgyütt, P. Novotný, and O. Rouillé, “Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives,” presented at the IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018, vol. 2018, pp. 4692–4699.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Elgyütt A, Novotný P, Rouillé O. 2018. Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives. IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 2018, 4692–4699.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Expectation Optimization with Probabilistic Guarantees in POMDPs with Discounted-Sum Objectives. Vol. 2018, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4692–99, doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/652. short: K. Chatterjee, A. Elgyütt, P. Novotný, O. Rouillé, in:, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4692–4699. conference: end_date: 2018-07-19 location: Stockholm, Sweden name: 'IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2018-07-13 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:13Z date_published: 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:45:48Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2018/652 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1804.10601' isi: - '000764175404117' intvolume: ' 2018' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10601 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 4692 - 4699 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication_status: published publisher: IJCAI publist_id: '8031' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2018 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '6006' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Network games (NGs) are played on directed graphs and are extensively used in network design and analysis. Search problems for NGs include finding special strategy profiles such as a Nash equilibrium and a globally-optimal solution. The networks modeled by NGs may be huge. In formal verification, abstraction has proven to be an extremely effective technique for reasoning about systems with big and even infinite state spaces. We describe an abstraction-refinement methodology for reasoning about NGs. Our methodology is based on an abstraction function that maps the state space of an NG to a much smaller state space. We search for a global optimum and a Nash equilibrium by reasoning on an under- and an over-approximation defined on top of this smaller state space. When the approximations are too coarse to find such profiles, we refine the abstraction function. We extend the abstraction-refinement methodology to labeled networks, where the objectives of the players are regular languages. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology. ' article_number: '39' author: - first_name: Guy full_name: Avni, Guy id: 463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Avni orcid: 0000-0001-5588-8287 - first_name: Shibashis full_name: Guha, Shibashis last_name: Guha - first_name: Orna full_name: Kupferman, Orna last_name: Kupferman citation: ama: Avni G, Guha S, Kupferman O. An abstraction-refinement methodology for reasoning about network games. Games. 2018;9(3). doi:10.3390/g9030039 apa: Avni, G., Guha, S., & Kupferman, O. (2018). An abstraction-refinement methodology for reasoning about network games. Games. MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/g9030039 chicago: Avni, Guy, Shibashis Guha, and Orna Kupferman. “An Abstraction-Refinement Methodology for Reasoning about Network Games.” Games. MDPI AG, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3390/g9030039. ieee: G. Avni, S. Guha, and O. Kupferman, “An abstraction-refinement methodology for reasoning about network games,” Games, vol. 9, no. 3. MDPI AG, 2018. ista: Avni G, Guha S, Kupferman O. 2018. An abstraction-refinement methodology for reasoning about network games. Games. 9(3), 39. mla: Avni, Guy, et al. “An Abstraction-Refinement Methodology for Reasoning about Network Games.” Games, vol. 9, no. 3, 39, MDPI AG, 2018, doi:10.3390/g9030039. short: G. Avni, S. Guha, O. Kupferman, Games 9 (2018). date_created: 2019-02-14T14:17:54Z date_published: 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-22T09:48:59Z day: '01' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.3390/g9030039 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 749d65ca4ce74256a029d9644a1b1cb0 content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-02-14T14:20:31Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:16Z file_id: '6008' file_name: 2018_MDPI_Avni.pdf file_size: 505155 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:16Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 9' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 264B3912-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: M02369 name: Formal Methods meets Algorithmic Game Theory - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication: Games publication_identifier: issn: - 2073-4336 publication_status: published publisher: MDPI AG quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1003' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: An abstraction-refinement methodology for reasoning about network games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 9 year: '2018' ...