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This paper studies current-state opacity and initial-state opacity verification of distributed discrete event systems. The distributed system's global model is the parallel composition of multiple local systems: each of which represents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Sasinee Pruekprasert , Kai Cai

Opacity, as an important property in information-flow security, characterizes the ability of a system to keep some secret information from an intruder. In discrete-event systems, based on a standard setting in which an intruder has the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiaoguang Han , Kuize Zhang , Jiahui Zhang , Zhiwu Li , Zengqiang Chen

In this paper, we revisit the fault diagnosis problem of discrete-event systems (DES) under non-deterministic observations. Non-deterministic observation is a general observation model that includes the case of intermittent loss of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Weijie Dong , Shang Gao , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

Classical opacity theory for discrete-event systems relies strictly on observable event sequences, fundamentally failing to capture security breaches in hybrid architectures where an attacker exploits both classical traces and localized…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sichen Ding , Zhiwu Li

This article considers state estimation and veri cation problems for an important class of man-made cyber-physical systems called Discrete-Event Systems (DES).

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Xiang Yin

Opacity is a security property formalizing the information leakage of a system to an external observer, namely intruder. The conventional opacity that has been studied in the Discrete Event System (DES) literature usually assumes passive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Alireza Partovi , Taeho Jung , Lin Hai

Finite automata (FAs) model is a popular tool to characterize discrete event systems (DESs) due to its succinctness. However, for some complex systems, it is difficult to describe the necessary details by means of FAs model. In this paper,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Weilin Deng , Daowen Qiu , Jingkai Yang

Dynamic networks are structured interconnections of dynamical systems (modules) driven by external excitation and disturbance signals. In order to identify their dynamical properties and/or their topology consistently from measured data, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Harm H. M. Weerts , Paul M. J. Van den Hof , Arne G. Dankers

In this paper, we investigate property verification problems in partially-observed discrete-event systems (DES). Particularly, we are interested in verifying observational properties that are related to the information-flow of the system.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Jianing Zhao , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

Opacity is an information flow property characterizing whether a system reveals its secret to an intruder. Verification of opacity for discrete-event systems modeled by automata is in general a hard problem. We discuss the question whether…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jiří Balun , Tomáš Masopust

The paper discusses fundamental detectability properties associated with the problem of distributed state estimation using networked observers. The main result of the paper establishes connections between detectability of the plant through…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-01-28 V. Ugrinovskii

This paper presents a formal verification guided approach for a principled design and implementation of robust and resilient learning-enabled systems. We focus on learning-enabled state estimation systems (LE-SESs), which have been widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Wei Huang , Yifan Zhou , Gaojie Jin , Youcheng Sun , Jie Meng , Fan Zhang , Xiaowei Huang

Cybersecurity of discrete event systems (DES) has been gaining more and more attention recently, due to its high relevance to the so-called 4th industrial revolution that heavily relies on data communication among networked systems. One key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Rong Su

This paper addresses the verification and enforcement of prognosability and diagnosability for discreteevent systems (DESs) modeled by deterministic finite automata. We establish the equivalence between prognosability (respectively,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Shaopeng Hu , Shaowen Miao , Jan Komenda , Zhiwu Li

Many dynamical systems, including thermal, fluid, and multi-agent systems, can be represented as weighted graphs. In this paper we consider whether the unstable states of such systems can be observed from limited discrete-time measurement,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Uduak Inyang-Udoh , Michael Shanks , Neera Jain

In this paper, we investigate state estimation and opacity verification problems within a decentralized observation architecture. Specifically, we consider a discrete event system whose behavior is recorded by a set of observation sites.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Dajiang Sun , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

We consider Dense-Timed Petri Nets (TPN), an extension of Petri nets in which each token is equipped with a real-valued clock and where the semantics is lazy (i.e., enabled transitions need not fire; time can pass and disable transitions).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Parosh Abdulla , Pritha Mahata , Richard Mayr

Inspired by privacy problems where the behavior of a system should not be revealed to an external curious observer, we investigate event concealment and concealability enforcement in discrete event systems modeled as non-deterministic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wei Duan , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

We investigate Petri nets with data, an extension of plain Petri nets where tokens carry values from an infinite data domain, and executability of transitions is conditioned by equalities between data values. We provide a decision procedure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Łukasz Kamiński , Sławomir Lasota

This document demonstrates that the efficient approach for diagnosis of Petri nets via integer linear programming may be unable to detect a fault even if the system is diagnosable.

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Alban Grastien