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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) pose new challenges to verification and validation that go beyond the proof of functional correctness based on high-level models. Particular challenges are, in particular for formal methods, its heterogeneity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Carna Radojicic , Christoph Grimm , Axel Jantsch , Michael Rathmair

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) combine software and physical components. These systems are widely applied in society within many domains, including the automotive, aerospace, railway, etc. Testing these systems is extremely challenging,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Aitor Arrieta

Formal analysis of functional and non-functional requirements is crucial in automotive systems. The behaviors of those systems often rely on complex dynamics as well as on stochastic behaviors. We have proposed a probabilistic extension of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Li Huang , Tian Liang , Eun-Young Kang

Temporal logics stands for a widely adopted family of formalisms for the verification of computational devices, enriching propositional logics by operators predicating on the step-wise behaviour of a system. Its quantified extensions allow…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Fabio Gadducci , Davide Trotta

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as autonomous cars, aircraft, and robots are often also safety-critical; thus it is imperative that they operate as intended with a high degree of certainty. Formal verification has been employed to verify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Serra Z. Dane , Jiawei Chen , Marc Pouzet , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

In this document, we provide supplementary material to a paper that will be published in ERTS2. It includes a more detailed description of the described requirement transformations, outlined in the paper. For this purpose, we also provide a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tobias Sehnke , Matthias Schultalbers , Rolf Ernst

Model-Based Anomaly Detection has been a successful approach to identify deviations from the expected behavior of Cyber-Physical Production Systems. Since manual creation of these models is a time-consuming process, it is advantageous to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Tom Westermann , Milapji Singh Gill , Alexander Fay

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are abundant in safety-critical domains such as healthcare, avionics, and autonomous vehicles. Formal verification of their operational safety is, therefore, of utmost importance. In this paper, we address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Atanu Kundu , Sauvik Gon , Rajarshi Ray

Property Specification Language (PSL) is a form of temporal logic that has been mainly used in discrete domains (e.g. formal hardware verification). In this paper, we show that by merging machine learning techniques with PSL monitors, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kevin Smith , Hai Lin , Praveen Tiwari , Marjorie Sayer , Claudionor Coelho

The aim of this technical report is to investigate the effect of input parameters on the falsification of cyber-physical systems (CPSs).

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Zahra Ramezani , Knut Åkesson

In this work, we consider translating tock-CSP into Timed Automata for UPPAAL to facilitate using UPPAAL in reasoning about temporal specifications of tock-CSP models. The process algebra tock-CSP provides textual notations for modelling…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Abdulrazaq Abba , Ana Cavalcanti , Jeremy Jacob

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of software interacting with the physical world, such as robots, vehicles, and industrial processes. CPS are frequently responsible for the safety of lives, property, or the environment, and so software…

In this paper we consider the specification and verification of infinite-state systems using temporal logic. In particular, we describe parameterised systems using a new variety of first-order temporal logic that is both powerful enough for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Clare Dixon , Michael Fisher , Boris Konev , Alexei Lisitsa

In runtime verification, manually formalizing a specification for monitoring system executions is a tedious and error-prone process. To address this issue, we consider the problem of automatically synthesizing formal specifications from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanael Fijalkow , Daniel Neider , Guillermo A. Perez

Many autonomous systems, such as robots and self-driving cars, involve real-time decision making in complex environments, and require prediction of future outcomes from limited data. Moreover, their decisions are increasingly required to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Erfan Aasi , Cristian Ioan Vasile , Mahroo Bahreinian , Calin Belta

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are systems that interact with the physical world via sensors and actuators. In such a system, the reading of a sensor represents measures of a physical quantity, and sensor values are often reals ranged over…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Chih-Hong Cheng , Edward A. Lee

Falsification of hybrid systems is attracting ever-growing attention in quality assurance of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) as a practical alternative to exhaustive formal verification. In falsification, one searches for a falsifying input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Zhenya Zhang , Paolo Arcaini , Ichiro Hasuo

Increased connectivity and remote reprogrammability/reconfigurability features of embedded devices in current-day power systems (including interconnections between information technology -- IT -- and operational technology -- OT --…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ali Rasteh , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

Mechanized verification of liveness properties for infinite programs with effects and nondeterminism is challenging. Existing temporal reasoning frameworks operate at the level of models such as traces and automata. Reasoning happens at a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Eleftherios Ioannidis , Yannick Zakowski , Steve Zdancewic , Sebastian Angel

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) can be found everywhere: smart homes, autonomous vehicles, aircrafts, healthcare, agriculture and industrial production lines. CPSs are often critical, as system failure can cause serious damage to property and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Richárd Szabó , András Vörös