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This paper is concerned with identifying linear system dynamics without the knowledge of individual system trajectories, but from the knowledge of the system's reachable sets observed at different times. Motivated by a scenario where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Taha Shafa , Roy Dong , Melkior Ornik

This paper deals with the state estimation problem in discrete-event systems modeled with nondeterministic finite automata, partially observed via a sensor measuring unit whose measurements (reported observations) may be vitiated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yuting Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Naiqi Wu , Zhiwu Li

Stealthy attacks on Industrial Control Systems can cause significant damage while evading detection. In this paper, instead of focusing on the detection of stealthy attacks, we aim to provide early warnings to operators, in order to avoid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Mazen Azzam , Liliana Pasquale , Gregory Provan , Bashar Nuseibeh

Cyber-physical systems can be subject to sensor attacks, e.g., sensor spoofing, leading to unsafe behaviors. This paper addresses this problem in the context of linear systems when an omniscient attacker can spoof several system sensors at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Xiao Tan , Pio Ong , Paulo Tabuada , Aaron D. Ames

In cyber-physical systems, malicious and resourceful attackers could penetrate the system through cyber means and cause significant physical damage. Consequently, detection of such attacks becomes integral towards making these systems…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Amin Ghafouri , Waseem Abbas , Aron Laszka , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xenofon Koutsoukos

This is a technical report that extends and clarifies the results presented in [1]. The model identification problem for asymptotically stable linear time invariant systems is considered. The system output is affected by an additive noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Marco Lauricella , Lorenzo Fagiano

This paper investigates reachability analysis for max-plus linear systems (MPLS), an important class of dynamical systems that model synchronization and delay phenomena in timed discrete-event systems. We specifically focus on backward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yuda Li , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

We investigate the theoretical performances of the Partial Least Square (PLS) algorithm in a high dimensional context. We provide upper bounds on the risk in prediction for the statistical linear model when considering the PLS estimator.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Luca Castelli , Irène Gannaz , Clément Marteau

We address the problem of state estimation, attack isolation, and control for discrete-time Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems under (potentially unbounded) actuator false data injection attacks. Using a bank of Unknown Input Observers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

This paper proposes a resource-aware allocation model for layered intrusion detection in het erogeneous networks. Monitoring traffic at higher protocol layers improves the ability to detect sophisticated attacks, but it also increases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ioan Pădurean , Béla Genge , Roland Bolboacă

Despite the impressive progress in the field of presentation attack detection and multimedia forensics over the last decade, these systems are still vulnerable to attacks in real-life settings. Some of the challenges for existing solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ali Khodabakhsh , Zahid Akhtar

Neural networks have been widely used to solve complex real-world problems. Due to the complicate, nonlinear, non-convex nature of neural networks, formal safety guarantees for the behaviors of neural network systems will be crucial for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Weiming Xiang , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Patrick Musau , Taylor T. Johnson

The first part of this paper is devoted to introducing an approach to compute the approximate minimum time function of control problems which is based on reachable set approximation and uses arithmetic operations for convex compact sets. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Robert Baier , Thuy Thi Thien Le

Current LLM safety defenses fail under decomposition attacks, where a malicious goal is decomposed into benign subtasks that circumvent refusals. The challenge lies in the existing shallow safety alignment techniques: they only detect harm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chen Yueh-Han , Nitish Joshi , Yulin Chen , Maksym Andriushchenko , Rico Angell , He He

Control applications for cyber-physical systems must make reliably safe control decisions in the presence of continuous dynamics as well as stochastic uncertainty. Providing safety guarantees for such systems requires formal modeling and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Joanna Delicaris , Erika Ábrahám , Anne Remke

Cybersecurity risks are often managed by reducing the system's attack surface, which includes minimizing the number of interconnections, privileges, and impacts of an attack. While attack surface reduction techniques have been frequently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ali Tamimi , Ozgur Oksuz , Jinyoung Lee , Adam Hahn

We study the convex hulls of reachable sets of nonlinear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain initial conditions. Reachable sets play a critical role in control, but remain notoriously challenging to compute, and existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Thomas Lew , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

In this paper we propose a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for linear discrete-time systems affected by possibly unbounded additive disturbances and subject to probabilistic constraints. Constraints are treated in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Lukas Hewing , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Invisible units mainly refer to small-scale units that are not monitored by, and thus are not visible to utilities. Integration of these invisible units into power systems does significantly affect the way in which a distribution grid is…

Applications · Statistics 2023-12-12 Xing He , Lei Chu , Robert C. Qiu , Qian Ai , Zenan Ling , Jian Zhang

The problem of model identification for linear systems is considered, using a finite set of sampled data affected by a bounded measurement noise, with unknown bound. The objective is to identify one-step-ahead models and their accuracy in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Marco Lauricella , Lorenzo Fagiano