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With the rapid advancement of information technology, the complexity of applications continues to increase, and the cybersecurity challenges we face are also escalating. This paper aims to investigate the methods and practices of system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chunyi Zhang , Jin Zeng , Xiaoqi Li

This paper studies the security of cyber-physical systems under attacks. Our goal is to design system parameters, such as a set of initial conditions and input bounds so that it is secure by design. To this end, we propose new sufficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

We describe a framework and tool specification that represents a step towards cybersecurity testing and monitoring of IoT ecosystems. We begin with challenges from a previous paper and discuss an integrated approach and tools to enable…

Systems modeling practice lacks security analysis tools that can interface with modeling languages to facilitate security by design. Security by design is a necessity in the age of safety critical cyber-physical systems, where security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Georgios Bakirtzis , Garrett L. Ward , Christopher J. Deloglos , Carl R. Elks , Barry M. Horowitz , Cody H. Fleming

Inspired by widely-used techniques of causal modelling in risk, failure, and accident analysis, this work discusses a compositional framework for risk modelling. Risk models capture fragments of the space of risky events likely to occur…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Mario Gleirscher

With our growing reliability on distributed networks, the security aspect of such networks becomes of prime importance. In large scale distributed networks it becomes cardinal to have an efficient and effective monitoring scheme. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Atul Vaibhav

The workshop is devoted to model-based testing of both software and hardware. Model-based testing uses models describing the required behavior of the system under consideration to guide such efforts as test selection and test results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Nikolay Pakulin , Alexander K. Petrenko , Bernd-Holger Schlingloff

Machine learning (ML) models are used in many safety- and security-critical applications nowadays. It is therefore important to measure the security of a system that uses ML as a component. This paper focuses on the field of ML,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jan Schröder , Jakub Breier

Adversarial attacks for machine learning models have become a highly studied topic both in academia and industry. These attacks, along with traditional security threats, can compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jakub Breier , Adrian Baldwin , Helen Balinsky , Yang Liu

This paper presents a mapping framework for design factors and implementation process for building credible Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security testbeds. The resilience of ICSs has become a critical concern to operators and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Uchenna D Ani , Jeremy M Watson , Benjamin Green , Barnaby Craggs , Jason Nurse

Hazard and impact analysis is an indispensable task during the specification and development of safety-critical technical systems, and particularly of their software-intensive control parts. There is a lack of methods supporting an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Sonila Dobi , Mario Gleirscher , Maria Spichkova , Peter Struss

Evaluating the security of cyber-physical systems throughout their life cycle is necessary to assure that they can be deployed and operated in safety-critical applications, such as infrastructure, military, and transportation. Most safety…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Georgios Bakirtzis , Bryan T. Carter , Carl R. Elks , Cody H. Fleming

The openness of modern IT systems and their permanent change make it challenging to keep these systems secure. A combination of regression and security testing called security regression testing, which ensures that changes made to a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Irdin Pekaric , Clemens Sauerwein , Michael Felderer

The nature of information security has been, and probably will continue to be, marked by the asymmetric competition of attackers and defenders over the control of an uncertain environment. The reduction of this degree of uncertainty via an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Marius-Constantin Ilau , Tristan Caulfield , David Pym

System integration testing is the process of testing a system by the stepwise integration of sub-components. Usually these sub-components are already verified to guarantee their correct functional behavior. By integration of these verified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Susanne Kandl , Martin Elshuber

We survey the state-of-the-art on model-based formalisms for safety and security joint analysis, where safety refers to the absence of unintended failures, and security to absence of malicious attacks. We conduct a thorough literature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Stefano M. Nicoletti , Marijn Peppelman , Christina Kolb , Mariëlle Stoelinga

The software development process is considered as one of the key guidelines in the creation of said software and this approach is necessary for providing a more efficient yet satisfactory output. Without separation of work into distinct…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Alya Hannah Ahmad Kamal , Caryn Chuah Yi Yen , Gan Jia Hui , Pang Sze Ling , Fatima-tuz-Zahra

The importance of mission or safety critical software systems in many application domains of embedded systems is continuously growing, and so is the effort and complexity for reliability and safety analysis. Model driven development is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Kai Hoefig , Andreas Joanni , Marc Zeller , Francesco Montrone , Martin Rothfelder , Rakshith Amarnath , Peter Munk , Arne Nordmann

Typical design flows are hierarchical and rely on assembling many individual technology elements from standard cells to complete boards. Providers use compact models to provide simplified views of their products to their users. Designers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Dan Alexandrescu , Aneesh Balakrishnan , Thomas Lange , Maximilien Glorieux

Industrial human-robot collaborative systems must be validated thoroughly with regard to safety. The sooner potential hazards for workers can be exposed, the less costly is the implementation of necessary changes. Due to the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tom P. Huck , Christoph Ledermann , Torsten Kröger