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Finite-state models are widely used in software engineering, especially in control systems development. Commonly, in control applications such models are developed manually, hence, keeping them up-to-date requires extra effort. To simplify…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Konstantin Chukharev , Daniil Chivilikhin

Model-based verification allows to express behavioral correctness conditions like the validity of execution states, boundaries of variables or timing at a high level of abstraction and affirm that they are satisfied by a software system.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Bugra M. Yildiz , Arend Rensink , Christoph Bockisch , Mehmet Aksit

Finite-state models, such as finite-state machines (FSMs), aid software engineering in many ways. They are often used in formal verification and also can serve as visual software models. The latter application is associated with the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Vladimir Ulyantsev , Igor Buzhinsky , Anatoly Shalyto

Finite-State Machines (FSMs) are critical for modeling the operational logic of network protocols, enabling verification, analysis, and vulnerability discovery. However, existing FSM extraction techniques face limitations such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Fares Wael , Youssef Maklad , Ali Hamdi , Wael Elsersy

In this paper, we propose a constraint-based modeling approach for the problem of discovering frequent gradual patterns in a numerical dataset. This SAT-based declarative approach offers an additional possibility to benefit from the recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Jerry Lonlac , Saïdd Jabbour , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo , Lakhdar Saïs , Badran Raddaoui

Software systems are complex, and behavioral comprehension with the increasing amount of AI components challenges traditional testing and maintenance strategies.The lack of tools and methodologies for behavioral software comprehension…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Hannes Thaller , Lukas Linsbauer , Rudolf Ramler , Alexander Egyed

Model-based reasoning is a central concept in current research into intelligent diagnostic systems. It is based on the assumption that sources of incorrect behavior in technical devices can be located and identified via the existence of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cristinel Mateis , Markus Stumptner , Dominik Wieland , Franz Wotawa

In industrial applications Finite State Machines (FSMs) are often used to implement decision making policies for autonomous systems. In recent years, the use of Behavior Trees (BT) as an alternative policy representation has gained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Mattias Hallen , Matteo Iovino , Shiva Sander-Tavallaey , Christian Smith

Process patterns represent well-structured and successful recurring activities of Software Development Methodologies. They are able to form a library of reusable building blocks that can be utilized in Situational Method Engineering for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mahdi Fahmideh , Fereidoon Shams

We introduce a scalable, modular, and sound approach for automatically constructing formal security specifications for Java bytecode programs in the form of method summaries. A summary provides an abstract representation of a method's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Narges Khakpour , Nicolas Berthier

Feature extraction is a fundamental task in the application of machine learning methods to SAT solving. It is used in algorithm selection and configuration for solver portfolios and satisfiability classification. Many approaches have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Benjamin Provan-Bessell , Marco Dalla , Andrea Visentin , Barry O'Sullivan

Finite state machines (FSMs) are widely used to manage robot behavior logic, particularly in real-world applications that require a high degree of reliability and structure. However, traditional manual FSM design and modification processes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiangyu Robin Gan , Yuxin Ray Song , Nick Walker , Maya Cakmak

Finite-state models are ubiquitous in the study of concurrent systems, especially controllers and servers that operate in a repetitive cycle. In this paper, we show how to extract finite state models from a run of a multi-threaded Java…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 KP Jevitha , Bharat Jayaraman , M Sethumadhavan

We present a new active model-learning approach to generating abstractions of a system implementation, as finite state automata (FSAs), from execution traces. Given an implementation and a set of observable system variables, the generated…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Natasha Yogananda Jeppu , Tom Melham , Daniel Kroening

Abstract models of system-level behaviour have applications in design exploration, analysis, testing and verification. We describe a new algorithm for automatically extracting useful models, as automata, from execution traces of a HW/SW…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Natasha Yogananda Jeppu , Tom Melham , Daniel Kroening , John O'Leary

Sequential sampling models (SSMs) are a widely used framework describing decision-making as a stochastic, dynamic process of evidence accumulation. SSMs popularity across cognitive science has driven the development of various software…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Kianté Fernandez , Dominique Makowski , Christopher Fisher

Behavioral models are incredibly useful for understanding and validating software. However, the automatic extraction of such models from actual industrial code remains a largely unsolved problem with current solutions often not scaling well…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-20 P. H. M. van Spaendonck

Behavior Trees (BTs) were invented as a tool to enable modular AI in computer games, but have received an increasing amount of attention in the robotics community in the last decade. With rising demands on agent AI complexity, game…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Matteo Iovino , Edvards Scukins , Jonathan Styrud , Petter Ögren , Christian Smith

Traditional pattern mining algorithms generally suffer from a lack of flexibility. In this paper, we propose a SAT formulation of the problem to successfully mine frequent flexible sequences occurring in transactional datasets. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Rémi Coletta , Benjamin Negrevergne

Behavior Driven Development (NORTH, 2006) is a specification technique that is growing in acceptance in the Agile methods communities. BDD allows to securely verify that all functional requirements were treated properly by source code, by…

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