Software Engineering and Formal Methods | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science

Software Engineering and Formal Methods

Our goal is to develop languages, methods, techniques and tools to support the design and deployment of trustworthy and effective software systems.

 

Publications

13 publications for 6 currently enrolled students

Enhancing SMT-based Weighted Model Integration by structure awareness
Spallitta, G.; Masina, G.; Morettin, P.; Passerini, A.; Sebastiani, R. in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, v. 328, (2024). - DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2024.104067

P-stable abstractions of hybrid systems
Becchi, Anna; Cimatti, Alessandro; Zaffanella, Enea in SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS MODELING, v. 2024, (2024). - DOI: 10.1007/s10270-023-01145-x

On CNF Conversion for Disjoint SAT Enumeration
Masina, Gabriele; Spallitta, Giuseppe; Sebastiani, Roberto in Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023, p. 1501-1516. - (LEIBNIZ INTERNATIONAL PROCEEDINGS IN INFORMATICS). - ISBN: 978-3-95977-286-0. Proceedings of: 26th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2023), Alghero, Italia, 4th-8th July 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.4230/lipics.sat.2023.15

SMT-Based Stability Verification of an Industrial Switched PI Control Systems
Basagiannis, Stylianos; Battista, Ludovico; Becchi, Anna; Cimatti, Alessandro; Giantamidis, Georgios; Mover, Sergio; Tacchella, Alberto; Tonetta, Stefano; Tsachouridis, Vassilios in 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2023, Porto, Portugal: IEEE, 2023, p. 243-250. - ISBN: 979-8-3503-2543-0. Proceedings of: 1st International Workshop on Verification & Validation of Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems, Porto, Portugal, 27 June 2023. - DOI: 10.1109/DSN-W58399.2023.00063

Searching for i-Good Lemmas to Accelerate Safety Model Checking
Xia, Y.; Becchi, A.; Cimatti, A.; Griggio, A.; Li, J.; Pu, G. in Computer Aided Verification - 35th International Conference, CAV, 2023, GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2023, p. 288-308. - ISBN: 978-3-031-37702-0. Proceedings of: CAV, Paris, France, 17-22 July 2023. - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37703-7_14

Evaluating Heuristic Search Algorithms in Pathfinding: A Comprehensive Study on Performance Metrics and Domain Parameters
Kherrour, Aya; Robol, Marco; Roveri, Marco; Giorgini, Paolo in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2023. Proceedings of: AREA woekshop, Krakow, Poland, 30th September- 4th October 2023

Automatic Generation of Scenarios for System-level Simulation-based Verification of Autonomous Driving Systems
Goyal, Srajan; Griggio, Alberto; Kimblad, Jacob; Tonetta, Stefano in Fifth International Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS 2023), Waterloo, Australia: EPTCS, 2023, p. 113-129. - (ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE). Proceedings of: FMAS 2023, Lieden, Netherlands, 15th-16th November, 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.395.8

Abstraction Modulo Stability for Reverse Engineering
Becchi, A; Cimatti, A in Computer Aided Verification - 34th International Conference, GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2022, p. 469-489. - (LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE). - ISBN: 978-3-031-13184-4. Proceedings of: CAV, Haifa, Israel, August 7-10, 2022. - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13185-1_23

NORMA: a tool for the analysis of Relay-based Railway Interlocking Systems
Amendola, Arturo; Becchi, Anna; Cavada, Roberto; Cimatti, Alessandro; Ferrando, Andrea; Pilati, Lorenzo; Scaglione, Giuseppe; Tacchella, Alberto; Zamboni, Marco in Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - 28th International Conference, GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2022, p. 125-142. - (LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE). - ISBN: 978-3-030-99523-2. Proceedings of: TACAS, Munich, Germany, 2nd April-7th April 2022. - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99524-9_7

SMT-based Weighted Model Integration with Structure Awareness
Spallitta, Giuseppe; Masina, Gabriele; Morettin, Paolo; Passerini, Andrea; Sebastiani, Roberto in Proceedings of UAI 2022, SL: SN, 2022. Proceedings of: UAI, Eindhoven, 1-5 August, 2022. - Publication URL

Asynchronous Composition of Local Interface LTL Properties
Bombardelli, Alberto; Tonetta, Stefano in NASA Formal Methods 14th International Symposium, NFM 2022, GEWERBESTRASSE 11, CHAM, CH-6330, SWITZERLAND: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2022, p. 508-526. - ISBN: 978-3-031-06772-3. Proceedings of: NFM22, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 24-27, 2022. - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06773-0_27

A Model-Based Approach to the Design, Verification and Deployment of Railway Interlocking System
Amendola, Arturo; Becchi, Anna; Cavada, Roberto; Cimatti, Alessandro; Griggio, Alberto; Scaglione, Giuseppe; Susi, Angelo; Tacchella, Alberto; Tessi, Matteo in Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Applications - 9th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, ISoLA 2020, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020, p. 240-254. - ISBN: 978-3-030-61466-9. Proceedings of: 9th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, ISoLA 2020, Rhodes, Greece, October 20-30, 2020. - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61467-6_16

PPLite: Zero-overhead encoding of NNC polyhedra
Becchi, A; Zaffanella, E in INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION, v. 275, (2020), p. 104620. - DOI: 10.1016/j.ic.2020.104620

 

Students

Becchi, Annaanna.becchi [at] unitn.itwebpage
Bombardelli, Albertoalberto.bombardell-1 [at] unitn.itwebpage
Dissegna, Sebastianosebastiano.dissegna [at] unitn.itwebpage
Goyal, Srajan Kumarsrajankumar.goyal [at] unitn.itwebpage
Kherrour, Ayaaya.kherrour [at] unitn.itwebpage
Masina, Gabrielegabriele.masina [at] unitn.itwebpage