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Industrial cyber-infrastructure is normally a multilayered architecture. The purpose of the layered architecture is to hide complexity and allow independent evolution of the layers. In this paper, we argue that this traditional strict…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Sidharta Andalam , Daniel Jun Xian Ng , Arvind Easwaran , Karthik Thangamariappan

Requirements traceability in safety-critical software development remains largely dependent on external documentation maintained separately from the systems it describes. This separation introduces structural fragility: traces degrade…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Thorsten Schlathölter

We present an approach for designing correct-by-construction neural networks (and other machine learning models) that are guaranteed to be consistent with a collection of input-output specifications before, during, and after algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Stephen Mell , Olivia Brown , Justin Goodwin , Sung-Hyun Son

In this thesis a comprehensive verification framework is proposed to contend with some important issues in composability verification and a verification process is suggested to verify composability of different kinds of systems models, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Imran Mahmood

Requirements engineering plays a critical role in developing software systems. One of the most difficult tasks in this process is identifying functional requirements. A critical problem in many projects is missing requirements until late in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Belief tracking is a basic problem in planning with sensing. While the problem is intractable, it has been recently shown that for both deterministic and non-deterministic systems expressed in compact form, it can be done in time and space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Blai Bonet , Hector Geffner

Process modeling is a suitable tool for improving the business processes. Successful process modeling strongly depends on correct requirements engineering. In this paper, we proposed a combination approach for requirements elicitation for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Masoud Nosrati

The concept of decomposition in computer science and engineering is considered a fundamental component of computational thinking and is prevalent in design of algorithms, software construction, hardware design, and more. We propose a simple…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dror Fried , Axel Legay , Joël Ouaknine , Moshe Y. Vardi

Current text-to-3D methods excel at generating single objects but falter on compositional prompts. We argue this failure is fundamental to their optimization schedules, as simultaneous or iterative heuristics predictably collapse under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Utkarsh Nath , Rajeev Goel , Rahul Khurana , Kyle Min , Mark Ollila , Pavan Turaga , Varun Jampani , Tejaswi Gowda

Stakeholders' expectations and technology constantly evolve during the lengthy development cycles of a large-scale computer based system. Consequently, the traditional approach of baselining requirements results in an unsatisfactory system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ramya Ravichandar , James D. Arthur , Robert P. Broadwater

Verified compilation of open modules (i.e., modules whose functionality depends on other modules) provides a foundation for end-to-end verification of modular programs ubiquitous in contemporary software. However, despite intensive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ling Zhang , Yuting Wang , Jinhua Wu , Jérémie Koenig , Zhong Shao

In the past years, software reverse engineering dealt with source code understanding. Nowadays, it is levered to software requirements abstract level, supported by feature model notations, language independent, and simpler than the source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Anas Alhamwieh , Said Ghoul

Composition technologies improve reuse in the development of large-scale complex systems. Safety critical systems require intensive validation and verification activities. These activities should be compositional in order to reduce the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Mounira Kezadri Hamiaz , Marc Pantel , Benoît Combemale , Xavier Thirioux

Maintaining an acceptable level of quality of service in modern complex systems is challenging, particularly in the presence of various forms of uncertainty caused by changing execution context, unpredicted events, etc. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Fatma Kachi , Chafia Bouanaka , Souheir Merkouche

Control Co-Design (CCD) considers the coupled effects of both the plant and control parameters to optimize a system's closed-loop transient performance during the design stage. This paper presents a new method for CCD with guarantees on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-19 Trevor J. Bird , Jacob A. Siefert , Herschel C. Pangborn , Neera Jain

Reliable, risk-averse design of complex engineering systems with optimized performance requires dealing with uncertainties. A conventional approach is to add safety margins to a design that was obtained from deterministic optimization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Anirban Chaudhuri , Boris Kramer , Matthew Norton , Johannes O. Royset , Karen Willcox

In this paper, we present an approach for designing correct-by-design controllers for cyber-physical systems composed of multiple dynamically interconnected uncertain systems. We consider networked discrete-time uncertain nonlinear systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Oliver Schön , Birgit van Huijgevoort , Sofie Haesaert , Sadegh Soudjani

Assuring the correct behavior of cyber-physical systems requires significant modeling effort, particularly during early stages of the engineering and design process when a system is not yet available for testing or verification of proper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Georgios Bakirtzis , Christina Vasilakopoulou , Cody H. Fleming

Current models for software components have made component-based software engineering practical. However, these models are limited in the sense that their support for the characterization/specification of design components primarily deals…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Zitouni Abdelhafid

The verification of cyber-physical systems operating in a safety-critical environment requires formal system models. The validity of the verification hinges on the precision of the model: possible behavior not captured in the model can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Niklas Metzger , Sanny Schmitt , Maximilian Schwenger