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Supervisor reduction procedure can be used to construct the reduced supervisor with a reduced number of states in discrete-event systems. The main concepts which are used in this procedure are control consistency of states, control cover,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Vahid Saeidi , Ali A. Afzalian , Davood Gharavian

We introduce a prototype tool strategFTO addressing the verification of a security property in critical software. We consider a recent definition of timed opacity where an attacker aims to deduce some secret while having access only to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Étienne André , Shapagat Bolat , Engel Lefaucheux , Dylan Marinho

In this paper, we investigate state estimation and opacity verification problems within a decentralized observation architecture. Specifically, we consider a discrete event system whose behavior is recorded by a set of observation sites.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Dajiang Sun , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

We formulate notions of opacity for cyberphysical systems modeled as discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. A set of secret states is $k$-ISO with respect to a set of nonsecret states if, starting from these sets at time $0$, the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Rance Cleaveland , Steven I. Marcus

The technological advancements facilitating the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) also render such systems vulnerable to cyber attacks with devastating effects. Supervisory control is a commonly used control method to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Nathaniel Smith , Yu Wang

Cyber attacks are unavoidable in networked discrete event systems where the plant and the supervisor communicate with each other via networks. Because of the nondeterminism in observation and control caused by cyber attacks, the language…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Xiaojun Wang , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

In this paper we develop a data-driven approach for marking nonblocking supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES). We consider a setup in which models of DES to be controlled are unknown, but a set of data concerning the behaviors…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yingying Liu , Kuma Fuchiwaki , Kai Cai

In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesizing the supremal covert damage-reachable attacker, in the setup where the model of the supervisor is unknown to the adversary but the adversary has recorded a (prefix-closed) finite set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

In this paper, coordination control of discrete event systems under joint sensor and actuator attacks is investigated. Sensor attacks are described by a set of attack languages using a proposed ALTER model. Several local supervisors are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Fei Wang , Jan Komenda , Feng Lin

Opacity is an information flow property that captures the notion of plausible deniability in dynamic systems, that is whether an intruder can deduce that "secret" behavior has occurred. In this paper we provide a general framework of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Andrew Wintenberg , Matthew Blischke , Stéphane Lafortune , Necmiye Ozay

In the context of networked discrete-event systems (DESs), communication delays and losses exist between the plant and the supervisor for observation and between the supervisor and the actuator for control. In this paper, we first introduce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Yunfeng Hou , Yunfeng Ji , Gang Wang , Ching-Yen Weng , Qingdu Li

This paper addresses the problem of infinite-step opacity and K-step opacity of discrete event systems modeled with Petri nets. A Petri net system is said to be infinite-step/K-step opaque if all its secret states remains opaque to an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Hao Lan , Yin Tong , Jin Guo , Carla Seatzu

The conventional Wonham-Ramadge supervisory control framework of discrete event systems enforces a closed discrete event system to generate correct behaviors under certain environments, which can be captured by an appropriate plant model.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-19 Alireza Partovi , Hai Lin

The automation of condition monitoring and workpiece inspection plays an essential role in maintaining high quality as well as high throughput of the manufacturing process. To this end, the recent rise of developments in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Michael Banf , Gregor Steinhagen

We investigate deterministic and nonblocking supervisory control of discrete event systems under cyber-attacks using the ALTER (Attack Language for Transition-basEd Replacement) model. While prior works consider supervisory control that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Feng Lin , Caisheng Wang , Jun Chen , Xiang Yin

Opacity is an important information-flow security property that characterizes the plausible deniability of a dynamic system for its "secret" against eavesdropping attacks. As an information-flow property, the underlying observation model is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Junyao Hou , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

We study supervisor localization for timed discrete-event systems under partial observation and communication delay in the Brandin-Wonham framework. First, we employ timed relative observability to synthesize a partial-observation…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Renyuan Zhang , Kai Cai

Controller confidentiality under sensor attacks refers to whether the internal states of the controller can be estimated when the adversary knows the model of the plant and controller, while only having access to sensors, but not the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Michelle S. Chong

In practice, we can not only disable some events, but also enforce the occurrence of some events prior to the occurrence of other events by external control. In this paper, we combine these two control mechanisms to synthesize a more…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Lin Cao , Shaolong Shu , Feng Lin

With the proliferation of communication networks and mobile devices, the privacy and security concerns on their information flow are raised. Given a critical system that may leak confidential information, the problem consists of verifying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Mona Noori-Hosseini , Bengt Lennartson , Christoforos Hadjicostis