English
Related papers

Related papers: Space-Efficient Bounded Model Checking

200 papers

We address the problem of efficient verification of multi-threaded programs running over Total Store Order (TSO) memory model. It has been shown that even with finite data domain programs, the complexity of control state reachability under…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Chinmay Narayan , Subodh Sharma , S. Arun-Kumar

Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide an effective framework for enforcing safety in dynamical systems with scalar constraints. However, many safety constraints are more naturally expressed as matrix-valued conditions, such as positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Samuel G. Gessow , Pio Ong , Aaron D. Ames , Brett T. Lopez

Bounded Model Checking (BMC) is a widely used software verification technique. Despite its successes, the technique has several limiting factors, from state-space explosion to lack of completeness. Over the years, interval analysis has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Rafael Sá Menezes , Edoardo Manino , Fedor Shmarov , Mohannad Aldughaim , Rosiane de Freitas , Lucas C. Cordeiro

In this paper we present the implementation of a Control Barrier Function (CBF) using a quadratic program (QP) formulation that provides obstacle avoidance for a robotic manipulator arm system. CBF is a control technique that has emerged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Stephen McIlvanna , Nhat Nguyen Minh , Yuzhu Sun , Mien Van , Wasif Naeem

Quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) aims to use quantum effects to create sequential decision-making policies that achieve tasks more effectively than their classical counterparts. However, QRL policies face uncertainty from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Dennis Gross

Boolean matrix has been used to represent digital information in many fields, including bank transaction, crime records, natural language processing, protein-protein interaction, etc. Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) aims to find an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Changlin Wan , Wennan Chang , Tong Zhao , Mengya Li , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang

Timed automata (TAs) are a common formalism for modeling timed systems. Bounded model checking (BMC) is a verification method that searches for runs violating a property using a SAT or SMT solver. MITL is a real-time extension of the linear…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Roland Kindermann , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

Boolean satisfiability ({\SAT}) has played a key role in diverse areas spanning testing, formal verification, planning, optimization, inferencing and the like. Apart from the classical problem of checking boolean satisfiability, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kuldeep S. Meel

Control barrier functions are a popular method of ensuring system safety, and these functions can be used to enforce invariance of a set under the dynamics of a system. A control barrier function must have certain properties, and one must…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Ellie Pond , Matthew Hale

Quantum federated learning (QFL) has been recently introduced to enable a distributed privacy-preserving quantum machine learning (QML) model training across quantum processors (clients). Despite recent research efforts, existing QFL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Atit Pokharel , Ratun Rahman , Thomas Morris , Dinh C. Nguyen

The minimization of propositional formulae is a classical problem in logic, whose first algorithms date back at least to the 1950s with the works of Quine and Karnaugh. Most previous work in the area has focused on obtaining minimal, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Eduardo Calò , Jordi Levy

BOUT++ is a software package designed for solving plasma fluid models. It has been used to simulate a wide range of plasma phenomena ranging from linear stability analysis to 3D plasma turbulence, and is capable of simulating a wide range…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Ben Dudson , Jens Madsen , John Omotani , Peter Hill , Luke Easy , Michael Løiten

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a fundamental NP-complete problem with many applications, including automated planning and scheduling. To solve large instances, SAT solvers have to rely on heuristics, e.g., choosing a branching variable in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mikhail Shirokikh , Ilya Shenbin , Anton Alekseev , Sergey Nikolenko

Computer programs, so-called solvers, for solving the well-known Boolean satisfiability problem (Sat) have been improving for decades. Among the reasons, why these solvers are so fast, is the implicit usage of the formula's structural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Markus Hecher

Recent advancements in machine learning have accelerated its widespread adoption across various real-world applications. However, in safety-critical domains, the deployment of machine learning models is riddled with challenges due to their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ignacy Stępka , Nicholas Gisolfi , Artur Dubrawski

Certification for Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) and Dependency Quantified Boolean Formulas (DQBF) is an ongoing challenge. Recent proof complexity work has shown that the majority of QBF and DQBF techniques can be p-simulated by using…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Leroy Chew , Tomáš Peitl

Recently, the Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) was proposed within the class of unfitted (or immersed, or embedded) finite element methods. By reformulating the original boundary value problem over a surrogate (approximate) computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Nabil M. Atallah , Claudio Canuto , Guglielmo Scovazzi

Even the fastest SMT solvers have performance problems with regular expressions from real programs. Because these performance issues often arise from the problem representation (e.g. non-deterministic finite automata get determinized and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Arlen Cox , Jason Leasure

In this talk, we will describe a framework for assertion-based verification (ABV) of quantum circuits by applying model checking techniques for quantum systems developed in our previous work, in which: (i) Noiseless and noisy quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-26 Mingsheng Ying

One of the effective model checking methods is to utilize the efficient decision procedure of SAT (or SMT) solvers. In a SAT-based model checking, a system and its property are encoded into a set of logic formulas and the safety is checked…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Daisuke Ishii , Saito Fujii