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Model checking is a powerful technique for software verification. However, the approach notably suffers from the infamous state space explosion problem. To tackle this, in this paper, we introduce a novel symbolic method for encoding Petri…

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In this work, we exploit the power of \emph{finite ambiguity} for the complementation problem of B\"uchi automata by using reduced run directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) over infinite words, in which each vertex has at most one predecessor;…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Weizhi Feng , Yong Li , Andrea Turrini , Moshe Y. Vardi , Lijun Zhang

In this work, we exploit the power of \emph{unambiguity} for the complementation problem of B\"uchi automata by utilizing reduced run directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) over infinite words, in which each vertex has at most one predecessor. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yong Li , Moshe Y. Vardi , Lijun Zhang

Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems are ubiquitous in control applications. Unbounded-time reachability analysis that can cope with industrial-scale models with thousands of variables is needed. To tackle this problem, we use abstract…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Dario Cattaruzza , Alessandro Abate , Peter Schrammel , Daniel Kroening

Since the introduction of Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), many logics have been proposed to reason about different strategic capabilities of the agents of a system. In particular, some logics have been designed to reason about the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Simon Busard , Charles Pecheur

The control properties of discrete-time switched linear systems (SLS) with switching signals generated by logical dynamic systems are studied using the semi-tensor product (STP) approach. With the algebraic state space representation…

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Robust state estimation in coupled dynamical systems depends critically not only on sensor quality but on the structural alignment between observation channels and the system's intrinsic dynamics. This paper develops a rigorous framework…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Somasundhar Venkatasubramanian , Anirudh Venkat , Advaidh Venkat

The classic approaches to synthesize a reactive system from a linear temporal logic (LTL) specification first translate the given LTL formula to an equivalent omega-automaton and then compute a winning strategy for the corresponding…

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Multitarget tracking (MTT) is a challenging task that aims at estimating the number of targets and their states from measurements of the target states provided by one or multiple sensors. Additional information, such as imperfect estimates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Domenico Gaglione , Giovanni Soldi , Paolo Braca , Giovanni De Magistris , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch

In this paper, we investigate the probabilistic formal verification of stochastic dynamical systems over continuous state spaces. Motivated by problems in state estimation and information-flow security, we introduce the notion of…

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State aggregation is a popular model reduction method rooted in optimal control. It reduces the complexity of engineering systems by mapping the system's states into a small number of meta-states. The choice of aggregation map often depends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Yaqi Duan , Zheng Tracy Ke , Mengdi Wang

This paper proposes a new algorithm for the generation of unambiguous B\"uchi automata (UBA) from LTL formulas. Unlike existing tableau-based LTL-to-UBA translations, our algorithm deals with very weak alternating automata (VWAA) as an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Simon Jantsch , David Müller , Christel Baier , Joachim Klein

Stochastic switched systems are a relevant class of stochastic hybrid systems with probabilistic evolution over a continuous domain and control-dependent discrete dynamics over a finite set of modes. In the past few years several different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Majid Zamani , Alessandro Abate , Antoine Girard

Finite-state models of control systems were proposed by several researchers as a convenient mechanism to synthesize controllers enforcing complex specifications. Most techniques for the construction of such symbolic models have two main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Majid Zamani , Giordano Pola , Manuel Mazo , Paulo Tabuada

We propose an efficient symbolic control synthesis algorithm for equivariant continuous-time dynamical systems to satisfy reach-avoid specifications. The algorithm exploits dynamical symmetries to construct lean abstractions to avoid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Hussein Sibai , Sacha Huriot , Tyler Martin , Murat Arcak

In this paper, a simulation-based method for the analysis and design of abstracted models for a stochastic hybrid system is proposed. The accuracy of a model is evaluated in terms of its capability to reproduce the system output for all the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-29 M. Prandini , S. Garatti , R. Vignali

We present a symbolic reachability analysis approach for B that can provide a significant speedup over traditional explicit state model checking. The symbolic analysis is implemented by linking ProB to LTSmin, a high-performance language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Jens Bendisposto , Philipp Koerner , Michael Leuschel , Jeroen Meijer , Jaco van de Pol , Helen Treharne , Jorden Whitefield

We study LTLf synthesis with multiple properties, where satisfying all properties may be impossible. Instead of enumerating subsets of properties, we compute in one fixed-point computation the relation between product-game states and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Christoph Weinhuber , Yannik Schnitzer , Alessandro Abate , David Parker , Giuseppe De Giacomo , Moshe Y. Vardi

The Logarithmic Linear Relaxation (LLR) algorithm is an efficient method for computing densities of states for systems with a continuous spectrum. A key feature of this method is exponential error reduction, which allows us to evaluate the…

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