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Decoupled Fitness Criteria for Reactive Systems

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The correctness problem for reactive systems has been thoroughly explored and is well understood. Meanwhile, the efficiency problem for reactive systems has not received the same attention. Indeed, one correct system may be less fit than another correct system and determining this manually is challenging and often done ad hoc. We (1) propose a novel and general framework which automatically assigns comparable fitness scores to reactive systems using interpretable parameters that are decoupled from the system being evaluated, (2) state the computational problem of evaluating this fitness score and reduce this problem to a matrix analysis problem, (3) discuss symbolic and numerical methods for solving this matrix analysis problem, and (4) illustrate our approach by evaluating the fitness of nine systems across three case studies, including the Alternating Bit Protocol and Two Phase Commit.

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    Slight generalizations to the framework, omitted here for the sake of simplicity, are able to capture, e.g., aggregates that output tuples of rational numbers [22].

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Derek Egolf’s research has been initially supported by a Northeastern University PhD fellowship. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. (1938052). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and feedback.

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Egolf, D., Tripakis, S. (2023). Decoupled Fitness Criteria for Reactive Systems. In: Ferreira, C., Willemse, T.A.C. (eds) Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47115-5_6

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