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In discrete-event system control, the worst-case time complexity for computing a system's observer is exponential in the number of that system's states. This results in practical difficulties since some problems require calculating multiple…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Richard Hugh Moulton , Behnam Behinaein Hamgini , Zahra Abedi Khouzani , Rômulo Meira-Góes , Fei Wang , Karen Rudie

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

This paper develops a novel compositional and abstraction-based approach to synthesize edit functions for opacity enforcement in modular discrete event systems. Edit functions alter the output of the system by erasing or inserting events in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Sahar Mohajerani , Yiding Ji , Stephane Lafortune

Opacity is a confidentiality property that characterizes the non-disclosure of specified secret information of a system to an outside observer. In this paper, we consider the enforcement of opacity within the discrete-event system formalism…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Bo Wu , Jin Dai , Hai Lin

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

As an information-flow privacy property, opacity characterizes whether a malicious external observer (referred to as an intruder) is able to infer the secret behavior of a system. This paper addresses the problem of opacity enforcement…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Wei Duan , Ruotian Liu , Maria Pia Fanti , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

Opacity is a confidentiality property that holds when certain secret strings of a given system cannot be revealed to an outside observer under any system activity. Opacity violations stimulate the study of opacity enforcement strategies.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

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

Opacity is an important information-flow security property that characterizes the plausible deniability of a dynamic system for its "secret" against eavesdropping attacks. As an information-flow property, the underlying observation model is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Junyao Hou , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

We consider the verification of current-state and K-step opacity for systems modeled as interacting non-deterministic finite-state automata. We describe a new methodology for compositional opacity verification that employs abstraction, in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Sahar Mohajerani , Stephane Lafortune

We investigate the enforcement of opacity in discrete-event systems via supervisory control. A system is said to be opaque if a passive intruder can never unambiguously infer whether the system is in a secret state through its observations.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Ziyue Ma , Alessandro Giua , Xiang Yin

In this paper, we investigate both qualitative and quantitative synthesis of optimal privacy-enforcing supervisors for partially-observed discrete-event systems. We consider a dynamic system whose information-flow is partially available to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Yifan Xie , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

Opacity is a general framework modeling security properties of systems interacting with a passive attacker. Initial-and-final-state opacity (IFO) generalizes the classical notions of opacity, such as current-state opacity and initial-state…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tomáš Masopust , Petr Osička

Opacity is a property expressing whether a system may reveal its secret to a passive observer (an intruder) who knows the structure of the system but has a limited observation of its behavior. Several notions of opacity have been studied,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Jiří Balun , Tomáš Masopust

In this paper, we present the concept of boosting the resiliency of optimization-based observers for cyber-physical systems (CPS) using auxiliary sources of information. Due to the tight coupling of physics, communication and computation, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Charalambos Konstantinou , Carlos A. Wong , Satish Vedula

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Robust global stabilization of nonlinear systems by observer-based feedback controllers is a challenging task. This article investigates the problem of designing observer-based stabilizing controllers for incrementally quadratic nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Xiangru Xu , Behcet Acikmese , Martin J. Corless

Opacity is an important system-theoretic property expressing whether a system may reveal its secret to a passive observer (an intruder) who knows the structure of the system but has only limited observations of its behavior. Several notions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Jiří Balun , Tomáš Masopust

A classical method for model-checking timed properties-such as those expressed using timed extensions of temporal logic-is to rely on the use of observers. In this context, a major problem is to prove the correctness of observers.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Silvano Dal Zilio , Bernard Berthomieu

This paper deals with the problem of enforcing modular diagnosability for discrete-event systems that don't satisfy this property by their natural modularity. We introduce an approach to achieve this property combining existing modules into…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Dmitry Myadzelets , Andrea Paoli
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