Selected publications at LSV

Abstract:
Petri net unfoldings are a useful tool to tackle state-space explosion in verification and related tasks. Moreover, their structure allows to access directly the relations of causal precedence, concurrency, and conflict between events. Here, we explore the data structure further, to determine the following relation: event a is said to reveal event b iff the occurrence of a implies that b inevitably occurs, too, be it before, after, or concurrently with a. Knowledge of reveals facilitates in particular the analysis of partially observable systems, in the context of diagnosis, testing, or verification; it can also be used to generate more concise representations of behaviours via abstractions. The reveals relation was previously introduced in the context of fault diagnosis, where it was shown that the reveals relation was decidable: for a given pair a,b in the unfolding U of a safe Petri net N, a finite prefix P of U is sufficient to decide whether or not a reveals b. In this paper, we first considerably improve the bound on |P|. We then show that there exists an efficient algorithm for computing the relation on a given prefix. We have implemented the algorithm and report on experiments.

@inproceedings{HKS-gandalf11,
   address = {Minori, Italy},
   author = {Haar, Stefan and Kern, Christian and Schwoon, Stefan},
   booktitle = {{P}roceedings of the 2nd {I}nternational {S}ymposium on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics, and {F}ormal {V}erification ({GandALF}'11)},
   DOI = {10.4204/EPTCS.54.3},
   editor = {D'Agostino, Giovanna and La{~}Torre, Salvatore},
   month = jun,
   pages = {31-44},
   series = {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science},
   title = {Computing the Reveals Relation in Occurrence Nets},
   url = {http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/Publis/PAPERS/PDF/HKS-gandalf11.pdf},
   volume = {54},
   year = {2011},
}

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