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This paper develops a novel compositional and abstraction-based approach to synthesize edit functions for opacity enforcement in modular discrete event systems. Edit functions alter the output of the system by erasing or inserting events in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Sahar Mohajerani , Yiding Ji , Stephane Lafortune

Opacity is a confidentiality property that characterizes the non-disclosure of specified secret information of a system to an outside observer. In this paper, we consider the enforcement of opacity within the discrete-event system formalism…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Bo Wu , Jin Dai , Hai Lin

Inspired by privacy problems where the behavior of a system should not be revealed to an external curious observer, we investigate event concealment and concealability enforcement in discrete event systems modeled as non-deterministic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wei Duan , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

Opacity is a confidentiality property that holds when certain secret strings of a given system cannot be revealed to an outside observer under any system activity. Opacity violations stimulate the study of opacity enforcement strategies.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

We investigate the enforcement of opacity in discrete-event systems via supervisory control. A system is said to be opaque if a passive intruder can never unambiguously infer whether the system is in a secret state through its observations.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Bohan Cui , Ziyue Ma , Alessandro Giua , Xiang Yin

Opacity has emerged as a central confidentiality notion for information-flow security in discrete event systems (DES), capturing the requirement that an external observer (intruder) should never be able to determine with certainty whether…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Xiang Yin

Qualitative opacity of a secret is a security property, which means that a system trajectory satisfying the secret is observation-equivalent to a trajectory violating the secret. In this paper, we study how to synthesize a control policy…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Sumukha Udupa , Jie Fu

This paper investigates the problem of co-synthesis of edit function and supervisor for opacity enforcement in the supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES), assuming the presence of an external (passive) intruder, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

In this paper, we investigate a class of information-flow security properties called opacity in partial-observed discrete-event systems. Roughly speaking, a system is said to be opaque if the intruder, which is modeled by a passive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Bohan Cui , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li , Alessandro Giua

Opacity is a security property formalizing the information leakage of a system to an external observer, namely intruder. The conventional opacity that has been studied in the Discrete Event System (DES) literature usually assumes passive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Alireza Partovi , Taeho Jung , Lin Hai

This paper investigates an important informationflow security property called opacity in partially-observed discrete-event systems. We consider the presence of a passive intruder (eavesdropper) that knows the dynamic model of the system and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Shuo Yang , Xiang Yin

This paper studies a language-based opacity enforcement in a two-player, zero-sum game on a graph. In this game, player 1 (P1) wins if it can achieve a secret temporal goal described by the language of a finite automaton, no matter what…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Chongyang Shi , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Hazhar Rahmani , Jie Fu

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

In discrete-event system control, the worst-case time complexity for computing a system's observer is exponential in the number of that system's states. This results in practical difficulties since some problems require calculating multiple…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Richard Hugh Moulton , Behnam Behinaein Hamgini , Zahra Abedi Khouzani , Rômulo Meira-Góes , Fei Wang , Karen Rudie

Opacity is an information flow property characterizing whether a system reveals its secret to an intruder. Verification of opacity for discrete-event systems modeled by automata is in general a hard problem. We discuss the question whether…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jiří Balun , Tomáš Masopust

In this paper, we investigate the enforcement of opacity via supervisory control in the context of discrete-event systems. A system is said to be opaque if the intruder, which is modeled as a passive observer, can never infer confidently…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Yifan Xie , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

In this paper, we investigate the property verification problem for partially-observed DES from a new perspective. Specifically, we consider the problem setting where the system is observed by two agents independently, each with its own…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Bohan Cui , Ziyue Ma , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Opacity is a property expressing whether a system may reveal its secret to a passive observer (an intruder) who knows the structure of the system but has a limited observation of its behavior. Several notions of opacity have been studied,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Jiří Balun , Tomáš Masopust

Opacity, as an important property in information-flow security, characterizes the ability of a system to keep some secret information from an intruder. In discrete-event systems, based on a standard setting in which an intruder has the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiaoguang Han , Kuize Zhang , Jiahui Zhang , Zhiwu Li , Zengqiang Chen

The paper studies information-theoretic opacity, an information-flow privacy property, in a setting involving two agents: A planning agent who controls a stochastic system and an observer who partially observes the system states. The goal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Chongyang Shi , Yuheng Bu , Jie Fu
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