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Cause-effect chains, as a widely used modeling method in real-time embedded systems, are extensively applied in various safety-critical domains. End-to-end latency, as a key real-time attribute of cause-effect chains, is crucial in many…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yixuan Zhu , Yinkang Gao , Bo Zhang , Xiaohang Gong , Binze Jiang , Lei Gong , Wenqi Lou , Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xi Li , Xuehai Zhou

Modeling and analysis of non-functional properties, such as timing constraints, is crucial in automotive real-time embedded systems. EAST-ADL is a domain specific architectural language dedicated to safetycritical automotive embedded system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Eun-Young Kang , Dongrui Mu , Li Huang

In this paper, we focus on modelling the timing aspects of binary programs running on architectures featuring caches and pipelines. The objective is to obtain a timed automaton model to compute tight bounds for the worst-case execution time…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Franck Cassez , Pablo González de Aledo Marugán

Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) is a key component for the verification of critical real-time applications. Yet, even the simplest microprocessors implement pipelines with concurrently-accessed resources, such as the memory bus shared by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-18 Zhenyu Bai , Hugues Cassé , Thomas Carle , Christine Rochange

Over-estimation of worst-case execution times (WCETs) of real-time tasks leads to poor resource utilization. In a mixed-criticality system (MCS), the over-provisioning of CPU time to accommodate the WCETs of highly critical tasks may lead…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Soham Sinha , Richard West , Ahmad Golchin

Avionic software is the subject of critical real time, determinism and safety constraints. Software designers face several challenges, one of them being the estimation of worst-case execution time (WCET) of applications, that dictates the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Felipe Gohring de Magalhaes , Alexy Torres Aurora Dugo , Jean-Baptiste Lefoul , Gabriela Nicolescu

This paper leverages the statistics of extreme values to predict the worst-case convergence times of machine learning algorithms. Timing is a critical non-functional property of ML systems, and providing the worst-case converge times is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

This paper considers the scheduling of stochastic jobs on parallel identical machines to minimize the expected total weighted completion time. While this is a classical problem with a significant body of research on approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz , Rudy Zhou

Computing accurate WCET on modern complex architectures is a challenging task. This problem has been devoted a lot of attention in the last decade but there are still some open issues. First, the control flow graph (CFG) of a binary program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Jean-Luc Béchennec , Franck Cassez

Balancing safety and efficiency when planning in crowded scenarios with uncertain dynamics is challenging where it is imperative to accomplish the robot's mission without incurring any safety violations. Typically, chance constraints are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Khaled A. Mustafa , Oscar de Groot , Xinwei Wang , Jens Kober , Javier Alonso-Mora

Heterogeneous systems commonly adopt dynamic scheduling algorithms to improve resource utilization and enhance scheduling flexibility. However, such flexibility may introduce timing anomalies, wherein locally reduced execution times can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yixuan Zhu , Yinkang Gao , Lei Gong , Binze Jiang , Xiaohang Gong , Zihan Wang , Cheng Tang , Wenqi Lou , Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xi Li , Xuehai Zhou

This paper presents new fast exact feasibility tests for uniprocessor real-time systems using preemptive EDF scheduling. Task sets which are accepted by previously described sufficient tests will be evaluated in nearly the same time as with…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Karsten Albers , Frank Slomka

Busy period is a fundamental concept in classical deterministic real-time scheduling analysis. In this deterministic context, only one busy period - which starts at the critical instant - needs to be considered, which identifies the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Junyi Liu , Xu Jiang , Yuanzhen Mu , Wang Yi , Nan Guan

The predictability of a system is the condition to give saferbound on worst case execution timeof real-time tasks which are running on it. Commercial off-the-shelf(COTS) processors are in-creasingly used in embedded systems and contain…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Fabien Bouquillon , Clément Ballabriga , Giuseppe Lipari , Smail Niar

Embedded systems in safety-critical environments are continuously required to deliver more performance and functionality, while expected to provide verified safety guarantees. Nonetheless, platform-wide software verification (required for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Fardin Abdi , Renato Mancuso , Rohan Tabish , Marco Caccamo

A hard real-time system cannot miss any deadline. A weakly-hard real-time system, on the contrary, is designed to tolerate a specific number of deadline misses. For instance, the AnyMiss(2, 300) weakly-hard constraint stipulates that in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Rieke de Maeyer , Holger Hermanns , Martina Maggio

The paper presents a novel algorithm for computing best and worst case execution times (BCET/WCET) of timed automata models with cyclic behaviour. The algorithms can work on any arbitrary diagonal-free TA and can handle more cases than…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Omar Al-Bataineh , Mark Reynolds , Tim French

Software engineers often have to estimate the performance of a software system before having full knowledge of the system parameters, such as workload and operational profile. These uncertain parameters inevitably affect the accuracy of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Aldeida Aleti , Catia Trubiani , André van Hoorn , Pooyan Jamshidi

It is becoming increasingly apparent that probabilistic approaches can overcome conservatism and computational complexity of the classical worst-case deterministic framework and may lead to designs that are actually safer. In this paper we…

Applications · Statistics 2008-11-01 Xinjia Chen , Kemin Zhou , Jorge L. Aravena

Short-term load forecasting is an essential task that supports utilities to schedule generating sufficient power for balancing supply and demand, and can become an attractive target for cyber attacks. It has been shown that the power system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Mojtaba Dezvarei , Kevin Tomsovic , Jinyuan Stella Sun , Seddik M. Djouadi