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The ongoing transformation of the European energy landscape, driven by the integration of renewable energy sources, digital technologies, and decentralized systems, requires a high degree of interoperability across diverse components and…

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One of the prerequisites of any organization is an unvarying sustainability in the dynamic and competitive industrial environment. Development of high quality software is therefore an inevitable constraint of any software industry. Defect…

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Machine learning (ML) - based software systems are rapidly gaining adoption across various domains, making it increasingly essential to ensure they perform as intended. This report presents best practices for the Test and Evaluation (T&E)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jaganmohan Chandrasekaran , Tyler Cody , Nicola McCarthy , Erin Lanus , Laura Freeman

An optimization model has been formulated and solved to determine on-condition failure thresholds and inspection intervals for multi-component systems with each component experiencing multiple failure processes due to simultaneous exposure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Sanling Song , Nooshin Yousefi , David W. Coit , Qianmei Feng

In this thesis a comprehensive verification framework is proposed to contend with some important issues in composability verification and a verification process is suggested to verify composability of different kinds of systems models, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Imran Mahmood

In this paper, we have established a general framework of multistage hypothesis tests which applies to arbitrarily many mutually exclusive and exhaustive composite hypotheses. Within the new framework, we have constructed specific…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Xinjia Chen

Test functions are important to validate new optimization algorithms and to compare the performance of various algorithms. There are many test functions in the literature, but there is no standard list or set of test functions one has to…

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The specification of requirements and tests are crucial activities in automotive development projects. However, due to the increasing complexity of automotive systems, practitioners fail to specify requirements and tests for distributed and…

Control systems on unmanned vehicles are safety-critical systems whose requirements on reliability and safety are ever-increasing. Currently, testing a complex autonomous control system is an expensive and time-consuming process, which…

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The complexity of digital embedded systems has been increasing in different safety-critical applications such as industrial automation, process control, transportation, and medical digital devices. The correct operation of these systems…

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We theoretically introduce and experimentally demonstrate the realization of a nonclassicality test that allows for arbitrarily low detection efficiency without invoking any extra assumptions as independence of the devices. Our test and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 A. Hameedi , B. Marques , P. Mironowicz , D. Saha , M. Pawlowski , M. Bourennane

Controller networks in today's automotive systems consist of more than 100 ECUs connected by various bus protocols. Seamless operation of the entire system requires a well-orchestrated interaction of these ECUs. Consequently, to ensure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Max J. Friese , Dirk Nowotka

Action research provides the opportunity to explore the usefulness and usability of software engineering methods in industrial settings, and makes it possible to develop methods, tools and techniques with software engineering practitioners.…

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Robotic systems are complex and safety-critical software systems. As such, they need to be tested thoroughly. Unfortunately, robot software is intrinsically hard to test compared to traditional software, mainly since the software needs to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nils Chur , Thiago Santos de Moura , Argentina Ortega , Sven Peldszus , Thorsten Berger , Nico Hochgeschwender , Yannic Noller

The full deployment of autonomous driving systems on a worldwide scale requires that the self-driving vehicle be operated in a provably safe manner, i.e., the vehicle must be able to avoid collisions in any possible traffic situation. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Ivo Batkovic , Ankit Gupta , Mario Zanon , Paolo Falcone

System modeling is a classical approach to ensure their reliability since it is suitable both for a formal verification and for software testing techniques. In the context of model-based testing an approach combining random testing and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Julien Bernard , Pierre-Cyrille Héam , Olga Kouchnarenko

Agile methodologies have gained significant traction in the software development industry, promising increased flexibility and responsiveness to changing requirements. However, their applicability to safety-critical systems, particularly in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mehrnoosh Askarpour , Sahar Kokaly , Ramesh S

This short paper describes a numerical method for optimising the conservative confidence bound on the reliability of a system based on tests of its individual components. This is an alternative to the algorithmic approaches identified in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Peter Bishop , Andrey Povyakalo

An Electric Vehicle usually refers to any vehicle that is partially or fully powered by a battery that can be directly plugged into the mains. Therefore, the new vehicles provide various benefits, including convenience, efficiency,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-22 Youssef El Amrani , Saad Motahhir , Abdelaziz El Ghzizal

Despite extensive research, the testing of autonomous driving systems (ADS) landscape remains fragmented, and there is currently no basis for an informed technical assessment of the importance and contribution of the current state of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Changwen Li , Joseph Sifakis , Rongjie Yan , Jian Zhang