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The design of additive imperceptible perturbations to the inputs of deep classifiers to maximize their misclassification rates is a central focus of adversarial machine learning. An alternative approach is to synthesize adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ismail R. Alkhouri , Alvaro Velasquez , George K. Atia

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

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing controllers for temporal logic specifications under security constraint. We assume that there exists a passive intruder (eavesdropper) that can partially observe the behavior of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Yu Chen , Shuo Yang , Rahul Mangharam , Xiang Yin

Dataset condensation aims to synthesize compact yet informative datasets that retain the training efficacy of full-scale data, offering substantial gains in efficiency. Recent studies reveal that the condensation process can be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 He Yang , Dongyi Lv , Song Ma , Wei Xi , Jizhong Zhao

This paper proposes a supervisory control structure for networked systems with time-varying delays. The control structure, in which a supervisor triggers the most appropriate controller from a multi-controller unit, aims at improving the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Burak Demirel , Corentin Briat , Mikael Johansson

Authorship analysis is an important subject in the field of natural language processing. It allows the detection of the most likely writer of articles, news, books, or messages. This technique has multiple uses in tasks related to…

We present a solution to deal with information package dropouts in distributed controllers for large-scale networks. We do this by leveraging the System Level Synthesis approach, a control framework particularly suitable for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Carmen Amo Alonso , Dimitar Ho , Jose M. Maestre

We study supervisory switching control for partially-observed linear dynamical systems. The objective is to identify and deploy the best controller for the unknown system by periodically selecting among a collection of $N$ candidate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Haoyuan Sun , Ali Jadbabaie

In this paper, the resilient control for switched systems in the presence of deception attack and denial-of-service (DoS) attack is addressed. Due to the interaction of two kinds of attacks and the asynchronous phenomenon of controller mode…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Rui Zhao , Zhiqiang Zuo , Ying Tan , Yijing Wang , Wentao Zhang

Our ability to synthesize sensory data that preserves specific statistical properties of the real data has had tremendous implications on data privacy and big data analytics. The synthetic data can be used as a substitute for selective real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Moustafa Alzantot , Supriyo Chakraborty , Mani B. Srivastava

Motivated by the need to secure cyber-physical systems against attacks, we consider the problem of estimating the state of a noisy linear dynamical system when a subset of sensors is arbitrarily corrupted by an adversary. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Shaunak Mishra , Yasser Shoukry , Nikhil Karamchandani , Suhas Diggavi , Paulo Tabuada

Scalability issues may prevent users from verifying critical properties of a complex hardware design. In this situation, we propose to synthesize a "safety shield" that is attached to the design to enforce the properties at run time. Shield…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Roderick Bloem , Bettina Koenighofer , Robert Koenighofer , Chao Wang

Conventional supervisory control theory assumes full synchronization between the supervisor and the plant. This assumption is violated in a networked-based communication setting due to the presence of delays, and this may result in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Aida Rashidinejad , Michel Reniers , Martin Fabian

The objective of this paper is to solve the controller synthesis problem for bisimulation equivalence in a wide variety of scenarios including discrete-event systems, nonlinear control systems, behavioral systems, hybrid systems and many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-22 Paulo Tabuada

This paper discusses the problem of estimating the state of a linear time-invariant system when some of its sensors and actuators are compromised by an adversarial agent. In the model considered in this paper, the malicious agent attacks an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Yasser Shoukry , Suhas Diggavi , Paulo Tabuada

Supervisor localization procedure can be used to construct local controllers corresponding to each component agent in discrete-event systems. This procedure is based on state reduction of a monolithic supervisor with respect to each set of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Vahid Saeidi , Ali A. Afzalian , Davood Gharavian

We investigate resilient control strategies for linear systems under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. By DoS attacks we mean interruptions of communication on measurement (sensor-to-controller) and/or control (controller-to-actuator)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

Manufacturing systems may be subject to external attacks and failures, so it is important to deal with the recovery of the system after these situations. This paper deals with the problem of recovering a manufacturing system, modeled as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Lucas V. R. Alves , Patricia N. Pena

Designing controllers with provable formal guarantees has become an urgent requirement for cyber-physical systems in safety-critical scenarios. Beyond addressing scalability in high-dimensional implementations, controller synthesis…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Jianqiang Ding , Dingran Yuan , Shankar A. Deka

This paper studies distributed resilient consensus problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems susceptible to deception attacks. The attacks invade both sensor and actuator channels of each agent. A specific class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mengze Yu , Wei Wang , Jiaqi Yan