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Scheduling with testing is a recent online problem within the framework of explorable uncertainty motivated by environments where some preliminary action can influence the duration of a task. Jobs have an unknown processing time that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Susanne Albers , Alexander Eckl

Automated software verification of concurrent programs is challenging because of exponentially large state spaces with respect to the number of threads and number of events per thread. Verification techniques such as model checking need to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Patrick Metzler , Habib Saissi , Péter Bokor , Neeraj Suri

Implementing correct distributed systems is an error-prone task. Runtime Verification (RV) offers a lightweight formal method to improve reliability by monitoring system executions against correctness properties. However, applying RV in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Armando Castañeda , Gilde Valeria Rodríguez

Proving correctness of distributed or concurrent algorithms is a mind-challenging and complex process. Slight errors in the reasoning are difficult to find, calling for computer-checked proof systems. In order to build computer-checked…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Armando Castañeda , Aurélie Hurault , Philippe Quéinnec , Matthieu Roy

We address the verification problem for concurrent program that dynamically create (fork) new threads or destroy (join) existing threads. We present a reduction to the verification problem for concurrent programs with a fixed number of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Matthias Heizmann , Dominik Klumpp , Frank Schüssele , Lars Nitzke

Graph-cuts are widely used in computer vision. In order to speed up the optimization process and improve the scalability for large graphs, Strandmark and Kahl introduced a splitting method to split a graph into multiple subgraphs for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Miao Yu , Shuhan Shen , Zhanyi Hu

We consider the parameterized verification problem for distributed algorithms where the goal is to develop techniques to prove the correctness of a given algorithm regardless of the number of participating processes. Motivated by an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nathalie Bertrand , Nicolas Markey , Ocan Sankur , Nicolas Waldburger

Assessing the correctness of distributed and parallel applications is notoriously difficult due to the complexity of the concurrent behaviors and the difficulty to reproduce bugs. In this context, Dynamic Partial Order Reduction (DPOR)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Matthieu Laurent , Thierry Jéron , Martin Quinson

We present a bounded model checking algorithm for signal temporal logic (STL) that exploits mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). A key technical element is our novel MILP encoding of the STL semantics; it follows the idea of stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Sota Sato , Jie An , Zhenya Zhang , Ichiro Hasuo

Fully automated verification of concurrent programs is a difficult problem, primarily because of state explosion: the exponential growth of a program state space with the number of its concurrently active components. It is natural to apply…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Kedar S. Namjoshi

Interrupts have been widely used in safety-critical computer systems to handle outside stimuli and interact with the hardware, but reasoning about interrupt-driven software remains a difficult task. Although a number of static verification…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Chungha Sung , Markus Kusano , Chao Wang

Automatic software verification is a valuable means for software quality assurance. However, automatic verification and in particular software model checking can be time-consuming, which hinders their practical applicability e.g., the use…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Max Barth , Marie-Christine Jakobs

In this paper, we consider an approach to the parallelizing of the algorithms realizing the modified probability changigng method with adaptation and partial rollback procedure for constrained pseudo-Boolean optimization problems. Existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

Training large language models (LLMs) at scale requires parallel execution across thousands of devices, incurring enormous computational costs. Yet, these costly distributed trainings are rarely verified, leaving them prone to silent errors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yunchi Lu , Youshan Miao , Cheng Tan , Peng Huang , Yi Zhu , Xian Zhang , Fan Yang

We study the {\em verification} problem in distributed networks, stated as follows. Let $H$ be a subgraph of a network $G$ where each vertex of $G$ knows which edges incident on it are in $H$. We would like to verify whether $H$ has some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Atish Das Sarma , Stephan Holzer , Liah Kor , Amos Korman , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg , Roger Wattenhofer

In many practical application domains, the software is organized into a set of threads, whose activation is exclusive and controlled by a cooperative scheduling policy: threads execute, without any interruption, until they either terminate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Alessandro Cimatti , Iman Narasamdya , Marco Roveri

Symbolic execution is a software verification technique symbolically running programs and thereby checking for bugs. Ranged symbolic execution performs symbolic execution on program parts, so called path ranges, in parallel. Due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jan Haltermanna , Marie-Christine Jakobs , Cedric Richter , Heike Wehrheim

Bounded Model Checking is one the most successful techniques for finding bugs in program. However, model checkers are resource hungry and are often unable to verify programs with loops iterating over large arrays.We present a transformation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Anushri Jana , Uday P. Khedker , Advaita Datar , R Venkatesh , C Niyas

Automatic parallelization remains a challenging problem in software engineering, particularly in identifying code regions where loops can be safely executed in parallel on modern multi-core architectures. Traditional static analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Izavan dos S. Correia , Henrique C. T. Santos , Tiago A. E. Ferreira

Runtime verification is the process of verifying critical behavioral properties in big complex systems, where formal verification is not possible due to state space explosion. There have been several attempts to design efficient algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 M. Ali Dorosty , Fathiyeh Faghih , Ehsan Khamespanah