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A wide variety of Cyber Threat Information (CTI) is used by Security Operation Centres (SOCs) to perform validation of security incidents and alerts. Security experts manually define different types of rules and scripts based on CTI to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Chadni Islam , M. Ali Babar , Roland Croft , Helge Janicke

Complex computer codes, for instance simulating physical phenomena, are often too time expensive to be directly used to perform uncertainty, sensitivity, optimization and robustness analyses. A widely accepted method to circumvent this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-04-22 Bertrand Iooss , Loïc Boussouf , Vincent Feuillard , Amandine Marrel

Off-road autonomy validation presents unique challenges due to the unpredictable and dynamic nature of off-road environments. Traditional methods focusing on sequentially sweeping across the parameter space for variability analysis struggle…

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are required to satisfy safety constraints in various application domains such as robotics, industrial manufacturing systems, and power systems. Faults and cyber attacks have been shown to cause safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Abdullah Al Maruf , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

Mutation testing can help reduce the risks of releasing faulty software. For such reason, it is a desired practice for the development of embedded software running in safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). Unfortunately,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jaekwon Lee , Enrico Viganò , Oscar Cornejo , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Current benchmarks for AI clinician systems, often based on multiple-choice exams or manual rubrics, fail to capture the depth, robustness, and safety required for real-world clinical practice. To address this, we introduce the GAPS…

Flaky tests that non-deterministically pass or fail waste developer time and slow release cycles. While large language models (LLMs) show promise for automatically repairing flaky tests, existing approaches like FlakyDoctor fail in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Chengpeng Li , Farnaz Behrang , August Shi , Peng Liu

The overarching, broad topic of my research are advancements in the area of safety-critical, cyber-physical systems (CPS) development with emphasis on validation and verification. The particular focus of my research is the early validation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Ondřej Vašíček

Robotics simulation plays an important role in the design, development, and verification and validation of robotic systems. Recent studies have shown that simulation may be used as a cheaper, safer, and more reliable alternative to manual,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Afsoon Afzal , Deborah S. Katz , Claire Le Goues , Christopher S. Timperley

Non-deterministically behaving test cases cause developers to lose trust in their regression test suites and to eventually ignore failures. Detecting flaky tests is therefore a crucial task in maintaining code quality, as it builds the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Martin Gruber , Michael Heine , Norbert Oster , Michael Philippsen , Gordon Fraser

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) with reinforcement learning (RL)-based controllers are increasingly being deployed in complex physical environments such as autonomous vehicles, the Internet-of-Things(IoT), and smart cities. An important…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Changjian Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Eunsuk Kang , Romulo Meira-Goes , David Garlan , Akila Ganlath , Shatadal Mishra , Nejib Ammar

As the landscape of devices that interact with the electrical grid expands, also the complexity of the scenarios that arise from these interactions increases. Validation methods and tools are typically domain specific and are designed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Catalin Gavriluta , Georg Lauss , Thomas I. Strasser , Juan Montoya , Ron Brandl , Panos Kotsampopoulos

This article studies a fundamental problem of security of cyber-physical systems (CPSs): that of detecting, almost surely, the presence of malicious components in the CPS. We assume that some of the actuators may be malicious while all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Souvik Das , Priyanka Dey , Debasish Chatterjee

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are systems with both physical and software components, for example cars and industrial robots. Since these systems exhibit both discrete and continuous dynamics, they are complex and it is thus difficult to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-21 Johan Lidén Eddeland , Koen Claessen , Nicholas Smallbone , Zahra Ramezani , Sajed Miremadi , Knut Åkesson

Objective: Time-domain diffuse optical imaging (DOI) requires accurate forward models for photon propagation in scattering media. However, existing simulators lack comprehensive experimental validation, especially for non-contact…

Due to major breakthroughs in software and engineering technologies, embedded systems are increasingly being utilized in areas ranging from aerospace and next-generation transportation systems, to smart grid and smart cities, to health care…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Adnan Rashid , Umair Siddique , Sofiene Tahar

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are abundant in safety-critical domains such as healthcare, avionics, and autonomous vehicles. Formal verification of their operational safety is, therefore, of utmost importance. In this paper, we address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Atanu Kundu , Sauvik Gon , Rajarshi Ray

Flaky tests obstruct software development, and studying and proposing mitigations against them has therefore become an important focus of software engineering research. To conduct sound investigations on test flakiness, it is crucial to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Martin Gruber , Gordon Fraser

The topic of provable deep neural network robustness has raised considerable interest in recent years. Most research has focused on adversarial robustness, which studies the robustness of perceptive models in the neighbourhood of particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Julien Girard-Satabin , Guillaume Charpiat , Zakaria Chihani , Marc Schoenauer

Black-box testing has been extensively applied to test models of Cyber-Physical systems (CPS) since these models are not often amenable to static and symbolic testing and verification. Black-box testing, however, requires to execute the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Claudio Menghi , Shiva Nejati , Lionel C. Briand , Yago Isasi Parache