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Selecting optimal intervals of checkpointing an application is important for minimizing the run time of the application in the presence of system failures. Most of the existing efforts on checkpointing interval selection were developed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-02 K. Raghavendra , Sathish S Vadhiyar

The paper presents a novel algorithm for computing best and worst case execution times (BCET/WCET) of timed automata models with cyclic behaviour. The algorithms can work on any arbitrary diagonal-free TA and can handle more cases than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Omar Al-Bataineh , Mark Reynolds , Tim French

Cause-effect chains, as a widely used modeling method in real-time embedded systems, are extensively applied in various safety-critical domains. End-to-end latency, as a key real-time attribute of cause-effect chains, is crucial in many…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yixuan Zhu , Yinkang Gao , Bo Zhang , Xiaohang Gong , Binze Jiang , Lei Gong , Wenqi Lou , Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xi Li , Xuehai Zhou

In this paper, we focus on modelling the timing aspects of binary programs running on architectures featuring caches and pipelines. The objective is to obtain a timed automaton model to compute tight bounds for the worst-case execution time…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Franck Cassez , Pablo González de Aledo Marugán

Estimating worst-case resource consumption is a critical task in software development. The worst-case analysis (WCA) problem is an optimization-based abstraction of this task. Fuzzing and symbolic execution are widely used techniques for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zimu Chen , Di Wang

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

Recent advancements in software engineering agents have demonstrated promising capabilities in automating program improvements. However, their reliance on closed-source or resource-intensive models introduces significant deployment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yingwei Ma , Yongbin Li , Yihong Dong , Xue Jiang , Rongyu Cao , Jue Chen , Fei Huang , Binhua Li

Safety-critical embedded systems having to meet real-time constraints are expected to be highly predictable in order to guarantee at design time that certain timing deadlines will always be met. This requirement usually prevents designers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Lars Wehmeyer , Peter Marwedel

Due to the increased complexity of parallel and distributed programs, debugging of them is considered to be the most difficult and time consuming part of the software lifecycle. Tool support is hence a crucial necessity to hide complexity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ch. Schaubschlaeger , D. Kranzlmueller , J. Volkert

This paper leverages the statistics of extreme values to predict the worst-case convergence times of machine learning algorithms. Timing is a critical non-functional property of ML systems, and providing the worst-case converge times is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Timing side-channel attacks exploit variations in program execution time to recover sensitive information. Cryptographic implementations are especially vulnerable to these attacks, since even small timing differences in operations such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nges Brian Njungle , Edwin P. Kayang , Mishel J. Paul , Michel A. Kinsy

Large-scale quantum computers promise transformative speedups, but their viability hinges on fast and reliable quantum error correction (QEC). At the center of QEC are decoders-classical algorithms running on hardware such as FPGAs, GPUs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Satvik Maurya , Abtin Molavi , Aws Albarghouthi , Swamit Tannu

Avionic software is the subject of critical real time, determinism and safety constraints. Software designers face several challenges, one of them being the estimation of worst-case execution time (WCET) of applications, that dictates the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Felipe Gohring de Magalhaes , Alexy Torres Aurora Dugo , Jean-Baptiste Lefoul , Gabriela Nicolescu

The most common method to auto-grade a student's submission in a CS1 or a CS2 course is to run it against a pre-defined test suite and compare the results against reference results. However, this technique cannot be used if the correctness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aaryen Mehta , Gagan Aryan

Quantum computing is poised to solve practically useful problems which are computationally intractable for classical supercomputers. However, the current generation of quantum computers are limited by errors that may only partially be…

Safely meeting Worst Case Energy Consumption (WCEC) criteria requires accurate energy modeling of software. We investigate the impact of instruction operand values upon energy consumption in cacheless embedded processors. Existing…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-05-15 James Pallister , Steve Kerrison , Jeremy Morse , Kerstin Eder

Window decoding, first proposed to reduce decoding complexity for real-time decoding, is an essential component to realize scalable, universal-fault tolerant computation. Prior work has focused on improving throughput through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Tina Oberoi , Joshua Viszlai , Frederic T. Chong

The predictability of a system is the condition to give saferbound on worst case execution timeof real-time tasks which are running on it. Commercial off-the-shelf(COTS) processors are in-creasingly used in embedded systems and contain…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Fabien Bouquillon , Clément Ballabriga , Giuseppe Lipari , Smail Niar

Quantum error correction (QEC) enables reliable computation on noisy hardware by encoding logical information across many physical qubits and periodically measuring parities to detect errors. A decoder is the classical algorithm that uses…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Abtin Molavi , Feras Saad , Aws Albarghouthi

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for building scalable quantum computers, but a lack of systematic, end-to-end evaluation methods makes it difficult to assess how different QEC codes perform under realistic conditions. The vast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Aleksandra Świerkowska , Jannik Pflieger , Emmanouil Giortamis , Pramod Bhatotia