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In manufacturing, the increasing involvement of autonomous robots in production processes poses new challenges on the production management. In this paper we report on the usage of Optimization Modulo Theories (OMT) to solve certain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Francesco Leofante , Erika Ábrahám , Tim Niemueller , Gerhard Lakemeyer , Armando Tacchella

The Performance Estimation Problem (PEP) approach consists in computing worst-case performance bounds on optimization algorithms by solving an optimization problem: one maximizes an error criterion over all initial conditions allowed and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Anne Rubbens , Nizar Bousselmi , Sebastien Colla , Julien M. Hendrickx

The paper addresses the problem of computing maximal expected time to termination of probabilistic timed automata (PTA) models, under the condition that the system will, eventually, terminate. This problem can exhibit high computational…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Omar Al-Bataineh , Michael Fisher , David Rosenblum

There exist several results on deciding termination and computing runtime bounds for triangular weakly non-linear loops (twn-loops). We show how to use results on such subclasses of programs where complexity bounds are computable within…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Nils Lommen , Eleanore Meyer , Jürgen Giesl

We present the new version of the Loop Acceleration Tool (LoAT), a powerful tool for proving non-termination and worst-case lower bounds for programs operating on integers. It is based on a novel calculus for loop acceleration, i.e.,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

This paper presents a wp-style calculus for obtaining bounds on the expected run-time of probabilistic programs. Its application includes determining the (possibly infinite) expected termination time of a probabilistic program and proving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Christoph Matheja , Federico Olmedo

Energy efficient real-time task scheduling attracted a lot of attention in the past decade. Most of the time, deterministic execution lengths for tasks were considered, but this model fits less and less with the reality, especially with the…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Vandy Berten , Chi-Ju Chang , Tei-Wei Kuo

Estimating the probabilistic Worst-Case Execution Time (pWCET) is essential for ensuring the timing correctness of real-time applications, such as in robot IoT systems and autonomous driving systems. While methods based on Extreme Value…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Hayate Toba , Atsushi Yano , Takuya Azumi

In this paper, we present an optimization based method for path planning of a mobile robot subject to time bounded temporal constraints, in a dynamic environment. Temporal logic (TL) can address very complex task specification such as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

We present a technique to infer lower bounds on the worst-case runtime complexity of integer programs, where in contrast to earlier work, our approach is not restricted to tail-recursion. Our technique constructs symbolic representations of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Florian Frohn , Matthias Naaf , Marc Brockschmidt , Jürgen Giesl

Training models to effectively use test-time compute is crucial for improving the reasoning performance of LLMs. Current methods mostly do so via fine-tuning on search traces or running RL with 0/1 outcome reward, but do these approaches…

This paper studies an optimal control problem for continuous-time stochastic systems subject to reachability objectives specified in a subclass of metric interval temporal logic specifications, a temporal logic with real-time constraints.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

We study a mutually enriching connection between response time analysis in real-time systems and the mixing set problem. Thereby generalizing over known results we present a new approach to the computation of response times in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Max A. Deppert , Klaus Jansen

In this paper, we consider a multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) network powered by wireless power transfer (WPT), where each energy-harvesting WD follows a binary computation offloading policy, i.e., data set of a task has to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Software Pipelining is a classic and important loop-optimization for VLIW processors. It improves instruction-level parallelism by overlapping multiple iterations of a loop and executing them in parallel. Typically, it is implemented using…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jan-Willem Roorda

#SMT, or model counting for logical theories, is a well-known hard problem that generalizes such tasks as counting the number of satisfying assignments to a Boolean formula and computing the volume of a polytope. In the realm of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Dmitry Chistikov , Rayna Dimitrova , Rupak Majumdar

Inexact methods for model predictive control (MPC), such as real-time iterative schemes or time-distributed optimization, alleviate the computational burden of exact MPC by providing suboptimal solutions. While the asymptotic stability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Aren Karapetyan , Efe C. Balta , Andrea Iannelli , John Lygeros

KTA (KTH's timing analyzer) is a research tool for performing timing analysis of program code. The currently available toolchain can perform two different kinds of analyses: i) exhaustive fine-grained timing analysis, where timing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-15 David Broman

The problem of phase synchronization is to estimate the phases (angles) of a complex unit-modulus vector $z$ from their noisy pairwise relative measurements $C = zz^* + \sigma W$, where $W$ is a complex-valued Gaussian random matrix. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Yiqiao Zhong , Nicolas Boumal

This work aims to jointly optimize the coding and node selection to minimize the processing time for distributed computing tasks over wireless edge networks. Since the joint optimization problem formulation is NP-hard and nonlinear, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Cong T. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Hoang-Anh Pham , Eryk Dutkiewicz