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Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Torben Amtoft / An EFSM (Extended Finite State Machine) is a tuple (S, T, E, V) where S is a finite set of states, T is a finite set of transitions, E is a finite set of events, and V is a finite set of variables. Every transition t in T has a source state and a target state, both in S. There is a need to develop a GUI which aids in building such machines and simulating them so that a slicing algorithm can be implemented on such graphs. This was the main idea of Dr. Torben Amtoft, who has actually written the slicing algorithm and wanted this to be implemented in code. The project aims at implementing a GUI which is effective to simulate and build the graph with minimum user effort. Poor design often fails to attract users. So, the initial effort is to build a simple and effective GUI which serves the purpose of taking input from the user, building graphs and simulating it. The scope of this project is to build and implement an interface so that the users can do the following in an effective way:  Input a specification of an EFSM  Store and later retrieve EFSMs  Displaying an EFSM in a graphical form  Simulating the EFSM  Modify an EFSM  Implement the slicing algorithm All the above mentioned features must be integrated into the GUI and it should only fail if the input specification is wrong.

Integrated circuit design has progressed significantly over the last few decades. This increasing complexity of hardware systems poses several challenges to the digital hardware verification. Functional verification has become the most expensive and time-consuming task in the overall product development cycle. Almost 70\% of the total verification time is being consumed by design verification and it is projected to worsen further. One of the reasons for this complexity is the synthesis and optimization (automated as well as manual) techniques used to improve performance, area, delay, and other measures have made the final implementation of the design very different from the golden (reference) model. Determining the functional correctness between the reference and implementation using exhaustive simulation can almost always be infeasible. An alternative approach is to prove that the optimized design is functionally equivalent to the reference model, which is known to be functionally correct. The most widely used formal method to perform this process is equivalence checking. The success of combinational equivalence checking (CEC) has contributed to aggressive combinational logic synthesis and optimizations for circuits with millions of logic gates. However, without powerful sequential equivalence checking (SEC) techniques, the potential and extent of sequential optimization is quite limited. In other words, the success of SEC can unleash a plethora of aggressive sequential optimizations that can take circuit design to the next level. Currently, SEC remains extremely difficult compared to CEC, due to the huge search space of the problem. Sequential Equivalence Checking remains a challenging problem, in this thesis we address the problem using efficient learning techniques. The first approach is to mine missing multi-node patterns from the mining database, verify them and add those proved as true during the unbounded SEC framework. The second approach is to mine powerful and generalized Boolean relationships among flip-flops and internal signals in a sequential circuit using a data mining algorithm. In contrast to traditional learning methods, our mining algorithms can extract illegal state cubes and inductive invariants. These invariants can be arbitrary Boolean expressions and can help in pruning a large don't-care space for equivalence checking. The two approaches are complementary to each other in nature. One computes the subset of illegal states that cannot occur in the normal function mode and the other approach mines legal constraints that represent the characteristics of the miter circuit and can never be violated. These powerful relations, when added as new constraint clauses to the original formula, help to significantly increase the deductive power for the SAT engine, thereby pruning a larger portion of the search space. Likewise, the memory required and time taken to solve the SEC problem is alleviated. / Master of Science

This dissertation is concerned with finite state machine-based technology for modeling natural language. Finite-state machines have proven to be efficient computational devices in modeling natural language phenomena in morphology and phonology. Because of their mathematical closure properties, finite-state machines can be manipulated and combined in many flexible ways that closely resemble formalisms used in different areas of linguistics to describe natural language. The use of finite-state transducers in constructing natural language parsers and generators has proven to be a versatile approach to describing phonological alternation, morphological constraints and morphotactics, and syntactic phenomena on the phrase level.The main contributions of this dissertation are the development of a new model of multitape automata, the development of a new logic formalism that can substitute for regular expressions in constructing complex automata, and adaptations of these techniques to solving classical construction problems relating to finite-state transducers, such as modeling reduplication and complex phonological replacement rules.The multitape model presented here goes hand-in-hand with the logic formalism, the latter being a necessary step to constructing the former. These multitape automata can then be used to create entire morphological and phonological grammars, and can also serve as a neutral intermediate tool to ease the construction of automata for other purposes.The construction of large-scale finite-state models for natural language grammars is a very delicate process. Making any solution practicable requires great care in the efficient implementation of low-level tasks such as converting regular expressions, logical statements, sets of constraints, and replacement rules to automata or finite transducers. To support the overall endeavor of showing the practicability of the logical and multitape extensions proposed in this thesis, a detailed treatment of efficient implementation of finite-state construction algorithms for natural language purposes is also presented.

O TESTE baseado em modelos visa a possibilitar a derivação de conjuntos de casos de teste a partir de especificações formais, tais como Máquinas de Estados Finitos. Os conjuntos de teste podem ser obtidos tanto pelos métodos clássicos de geração quanto por alguma abordagem ad hoc. Procura-se obter um conjunto de teste que consiga detectar todos os possíveis defeitos de uma implementação e possua tamanho reduzido para que a sua aplicação seja factível. Por questões de ordem prática, pode não ser possível a aplicação de todo o conjunto de teste gerado. Desse modo, um subconjunto de casos de teste deve ser selecionado, ou seja, uma minimização do conjunto de teste deve ser realizada. No entanto, é fundamental que a minimização reduza o custo de aplicação dos testes, mas mantenha a efetividade em revelar defeitos. Neste trabalho, propõe-se um algoritmo de minimização de conjuntos de teste para Máquinas de Estados Finitos. O algoritmo baseia-se em condições de suficiência para que a completude em relação à detecção de defeitos seja mantida. O algoritmo foi utilizado em dois diferentes contextos. Utilizou-se o algoritmo com conjuntos de teste gerados de forma aleatória para verificar a minimização obtida. O algoritmo também foi utilizado para reduzir o esforço em se obter um conjunto completo em relação à detecção de defeitos / THE Model-based testing aims at generating test suites from formal specifications, such as Finite State Machines. Test suites can be obtained either from classical test derivation methods or from some ad-hoc approach. It is desirable to produce a test suite which detects all possible faults of an implementation and has small size, so that its application can be feasible. For practical reasons, the application of the generated test suite may not be possible. Therefore, a subset of test cases should be selected, i.e., a test suite minimization should be performed. However, it is important that the minimization reduces the test application cost, but keeps the effectiveness in revealing faults. In this work, an algorithm is proposed for the minimization of test suites generated from Finite State Machines. The algorithm is based on sufficient conditions, so that test suite completeness can be maintained. The algorithm was used in two different contexts. It was used with randomly generated test suites to verify the minimization obtained. The algorithm was also used to reduce the effort of obtaining a test suite with full fault coverage

O teste baseado em modelos visa à derivação de casos de teste a partir de modelos produzidos ao longo do desenvolvimento de software. Nesse contexto, as Máquinas de Estados Finitos têm sido amplamente pesquisadas e utilizadas para derivação de seqüências de teste. Para isso, vários métodos de geração de seqüências de teste têm sido desenvolvidos há várias décadas. O objetivo desses métodos é a obtenção de um conjunto de teste que seja capaz de revelar os defeitos de uma implementação. Entretanto, muitas vezes os conjuntos gerados são muito grandes, o que torna sua aplicação inviável. Trabalhos recentes definiram condições que podem ser utilizadas para investigar mecanismos de redução de casos de teste. Este trabalho apresenta uma estratégia para a redução de conjuntos de seqüências de teste a partir de Máquinas de Estados Finitos com base em condições de suficiência. A estratégia baseia-se na combinação de seqüências de um conjunto de teste, de forma a reduzir o número de seqüências e o tamanho delas, mantendo a completude do conjunto. São apresentadas seis abordagens de redução baseadas na estratégia proposta, as quais foram implementadas em uma ferramenta. Para avaliar as abordagens foram conduzidos estudos experimentais, os quais também serviram para inferir sobre as características e propriedades de cada abordagem. Além disso, um estudo de caso com MEFs reais também foi realizado / Model-based testing aims at generating test cases from models produced along the software development process. In this context, Finite State Machines (FSM) have been largely investigated and used for generating test sequences. In the past decades, several test generation methods have been proposed to obtain test suites that are able to reveal implementation faults. Nevertheless, most of the generated test suites are huge, thus hindering their application in practice. Recent research has defined new sufficient conditions that can be employed in mechanisms for reducing the length of test sequences. This work presents a strategy based on sufficient conditions for reducing the length of test cases derived from FSMs. Our strategy is based on sequence combination of a test suite, aiming to reduce the number of sequences and their length, however still keeping full fault coverage. Six reduction approaches are presented based on the proposed strategy and implemented in a tool. In order to evaluate the strategy, we conducted experimental studies that identified characteristics and properties for each of the six proposed approaches. Moreover, a case study with real-world FSMs was performed

O TESTE baseado em modelos visa a possibilitar a derivação de conjuntos de casos de teste a partir de especificações formais, tais como Máquinas de Estados Finitos. Os conjuntos de teste podem ser obtidos tanto pelos métodos clássicos de geração quanto por alguma abordagem ad hoc. Procura-se obter um conjunto de teste que consiga detectar todos os possíveis defeitos de uma implementação e possua tamanho reduzido para que a sua aplicação seja factível. Por questões de ordem prática, pode não ser possível a aplicação de todo o conjunto de teste gerado. Desse modo, um subconjunto de casos de teste deve ser selecionado, ou seja, uma minimização do conjunto de teste deve ser realizada. No entanto, é fundamental que a minimização reduza o custo de aplicação dos testes, mas mantenha a efetividade em revelar defeitos. Neste trabalho, propõe-se um algoritmo de minimização de conjuntos de teste para Máquinas de Estados Finitos. O algoritmo baseia-se em condições de suficiência para que a completude em relação à detecção de defeitos seja mantida. O algoritmo foi utilizado em dois diferentes contextos. Utilizou-se o algoritmo com conjuntos de teste gerados de forma aleatória para verificar a minimização obtida. O algoritmo também foi utilizado para reduzir o esforço em se obter um conjunto completo em relação à detecção de defeitos / THE Model-based testing aims at generating test suites from formal specifications, such as Finite State Machines. Test suites can be obtained either from classical test derivation methods or from some ad-hoc approach. It is desirable to produce a test suite which detects all possible faults of an implementation and has small size, so that its application can be feasible. For practical reasons, the application of the generated test suite may not be possible. Therefore, a subset of test cases should be selected, i.e., a test suite minimization should be performed. However, it is important that the minimization reduces the test application cost, but keeps the effectiveness in revealing faults. In this work, an algorithm is proposed for the minimization of test suites generated from Finite State Machines. The algorithm is based on sufficient conditions, so that test suite completeness can be maintained. The algorithm was used in two different contexts. It was used with randomly generated test suites to verify the minimization obtained. The algorithm was also used to reduce the effort of obtaining a test suite with full fault coverage

Distributed systems are rapidly increasing in importance due to the need for scalable computations on huge volumes of data. This fact is reflected in many real-world distributed applications such as Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service, Facebook's Cassandra key-value store or Apache's Hadoop MapReduce framework. Multi-core architectures developed by companies such as Intel and AMD have further brought this to prominence, since workloads can now be distributed across many individual cores. The nodes or entities in such systems are often built using commodity hardware and are prone to physical failures and security vulnerabilities. Achieving fault tolerance in such systems is a challenging task, since it is not easy to observe and control these distributed entities. Replication is a standard approach for fault tolerance in distributed systems. The main advantage of this approach is that the backups incur very little overhead in terms of the time taken for normal operation or recovery. However, replication is grossly wasteful in terms of the number of backups required for fault tolerance. The large number of backups has two major implications. First, the total space or memory required for fault tolerance is considerably high. Second, there is a significant cost of resources such as the power required to run the backup processes. Given the large number of distributed servers employed in real-world applications, it is a hard task to provide fault tolerance while achieving both space and operational efficiency. In the world of data fault tolerance and communication, coding theory is used as the space efficient alternate for replication. A direct application of coding theory to distributed servers, treating the servers as blocks of data, is very inefficient in terms of the updates to the backups. This is primarily because each update to the server will affect many blocks in memory, all of which have to be re-encoded at the backups. This leads us to the following thesis statement: Can we design a mechanism for fault tolerance in distributed systems that combines the space efficiency of coding theory with the low operational overhead of replication? We present a new paradigm to solve this problem, broadly referred to as fusion. We provide fusion-based solutions for two models of computation that are representative of a large class of applications: (i) Systems modeled as deterministic finite state machines and, (ii) Systems modeled as programs containing data structures. For finite state machines, we use the notion of Hamming distances to present a polynomial time algorithm to generate efficient backup state machines. For programs hosting data structures, we use a combination of erasure codes and selective replication to generate efficient backups for most commonly used data structures such as queues, array lists, linked lists, vectors and maps. We present theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate the efficiency of our schemes over replication. Finally, we use our schemes to design an efficient solution for fault tolerance in two real-world applications: Amazons Dynamo key-value store, and Google's MapReduce framework. / text

This dissertation explores the problem of energy estimation in supervised Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM). NILM refers to a set of techniques used to estimate the electricity consumed by individual loads in a building from measurements of the total electrical consumption. Most commonly, NILM works by first attributing any significant change in the total power consumption (also known as an event) to a specific load and subsequently using these attributions (i.e. the labels for the events) to estimate energy for each load. For this last step, most proposed solutions in the field impart simplifying assumptions to make the problem more tractable. This has severely limited the practicality of the proposed solutions. To address this knowledge gap, we present a framework for creating appliance models based on classification labels and aggregate power measurements that can help relax many of these assumptions. Within the framework, we model the problem of utilizing a sequence of event labels to generate energy estimates as a broader class of problems that has two major components (i) With the understanding that the labels arise from a process with distinct states and state transitions, we estimate the underlying Finite State Machine (FSM) model that most likely generated the observed sequence (ii) We allow for the observed sequence to have errors, and present an error correction algorithm to detect and correct them. We test the framework on data from 43 appliances collected from 19 houses and find that it improves errors in energy estimates when compared to the case with no correction in 19 appliances by a factor of 50, leaves 17 appliances unchanged, and negatively impacts 6 appliances by a factor of 1.4. This approach of utilizing event sequences to estimate energy has implications in virtual metering of appliances as well. In a case study, we utilize this framework in order to substitute the need of plug-level sensors with cheap and easily deployable contacless sensors, and find that on the 6 appliances virtually metered using magnetic field sensors, the inferred energy values have an average error of 10:9%.

O teste baseado em modelos visa à derivação de casos de teste a partir de modelos produzidos ao longo do desenvolvimento de software. Nesse contexto, as Máquinas de Estados Finitos têm sido amplamente pesquisadas e utilizadas para derivação de seqüências de teste. Para isso, vários métodos de geração de seqüências de teste têm sido desenvolvidos há várias décadas. O objetivo desses métodos é a obtenção de um conjunto de teste que seja capaz de revelar os defeitos de uma implementação. Entretanto, muitas vezes os conjuntos gerados são muito grandes, o que torna sua aplicação inviável. Trabalhos recentes definiram condições que podem ser utilizadas para investigar mecanismos de redução de casos de teste. Este trabalho apresenta uma estratégia para a redução de conjuntos de seqüências de teste a partir de Máquinas de Estados Finitos com base em condições de suficiência. A estratégia baseia-se na combinação de seqüências de um conjunto de teste, de forma a reduzir o número de seqüências e o tamanho delas, mantendo a completude do conjunto. São apresentadas seis abordagens de redução baseadas na estratégia proposta, as quais foram implementadas em uma ferramenta. Para avaliar as abordagens foram conduzidos estudos experimentais, os quais também serviram para inferir sobre as características e propriedades de cada abordagem. Além disso, um estudo de caso com MEFs reais também foi realizado / Model-based testing aims at generating test cases from models produced along the software development process. In this context, Finite State Machines (FSM) have been largely investigated and used for generating test sequences. In the past decades, several test generation methods have been proposed to obtain test suites that are able to reveal implementation faults. Nevertheless, most of the generated test suites are huge, thus hindering their application in practice. Recent research has defined new sufficient conditions that can be employed in mechanisms for reducing the length of test sequences. This work presents a strategy based on sufficient conditions for reducing the length of test cases derived from FSMs. Our strategy is based on sequence combination of a test suite, aiming to reduce the number of sequences and their length, however still keeping full fault coverage. Six reduction approaches are presented based on the proposed strategy and implemented in a tool. In order to evaluate the strategy, we conducted experimental studies that identified characteristics and properties for each of the six proposed approaches. Moreover, a case study with real-world FSMs was performed