TY - JOUR A1 - Gebser, Martin A1 - Maratea, Marco A1 - Ricca, Francesco T1 - The sixth answer set programming competition JF - Journal of artificial intelligence research : JAIR N2 - Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known paradigm of declarative programming with roots in logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Similar to other closely related problemsolving technologies, such as SAT/SMT, QBF, Planning and Scheduling, advancements in ASP solving are assessed in competition events. In this paper, we report about the design and results of the Sixth ASP Competition, which was jointly organized by the University of Calabria (Italy), Aalto University (Finland), and the University of Genoa (Italy), in affiliation with the 13th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning. This edition maintained some of the design decisions introduced in 2014, e.g., the conception of sub-tracks, the scoring scheme,and the adherence to a fixed modeling language in order to push the adoption of the ASP-Core-2 standard. On the other hand, it featured also some novelties, like a benchmark selection stage classifying instances according to their empirical hardness, and a “Marathon” track where the topperforming systems are given more time for solving hard benchmarks. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.5373 SN - 1076-9757 SN - 1943-5037 VL - 60 SP - 41 EP - 95 PB - AI Access Found. CY - Marina del Rey ER - TY - GEN A1 - Saint-Dizier, Patrick A1 - Stede, Manfred T1 - Foundations of the language of argumentation T2 - Argument & computation Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-170018 SN - 1946-2166 SN - 1946-2174 VL - 8 IS - 2 Special issue SP - 91 EP - 93 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Giese, Holger ED - Kouchnarenko, Olga ED - Khosravi, Ramtin T1 - Formal models and analysis for self-adaptive cyber-physical systems BT - (extended abstract) T2 - Lecture notes in computer science N2 - In this extended abstract, we will analyze the current challenges for the envisioned Self-Adaptive CPS. In addition, we will outline our results to approach these challenges with SMARTSOS [10] a generic approach based on extensions of graph transformation systems employing open and adaptive collaborations and models at runtime for trustworthy self-adaptation, self-organization, and evolution of the individual systems and the system-of-systems level taking the independent development, operation, management, and evolution of these systems into account. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-57666-4 SN - 978-3-319-57665-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57666-4_1 SN - 0302-9743 SN - 1611-3349 VL - 10231 SP - 3 EP - 9 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindauer, Marius A1 - Hoos, Holger A1 - Leyton-Brown, Kevin A1 - Schaub, Torsten T1 - Automatic construction of parallel portfolios via algorithm configuration JF - Artificial intelligence N2 - Since 2004, increases in computational power described by Moore's law have substantially been realized in the form of additional cores rather than through faster clock speeds. To make effective use of modern hardware when solving hard computational problems, it is therefore necessary to employ parallel solution strategies. In this work, we demonstrate how effective parallel solvers for propositional satisfiability (SAT), one of the most widely studied NP-complete problems, can be produced automatically from any existing sequential, highly parametric SAT solver. Our Automatic Construction of Parallel Portfolios (ACPP) approach uses an automatic algorithm configuration procedure to identify a set of configurations that perform well when executed in parallel. Applied to two prominent SAT solvers, Lingeling and clasp, our ACPP procedure identified 8-core solvers that significantly outperformed their sequential counterparts on a diverse set of instances from the application and hard combinatorial category of the 2012 SAT Challenge. We further extended our ACPP approach to produce parallel portfolio solvers consisting of several different solvers by combining their configuration spaces. Applied to the component solvers of the 2012 SAT Challenge gold medal winning SAT Solver pfolioUZK, our ACPP procedures produced a significantly better-performing parallel SAT solver. KW - Algorithm configuration KW - Parallel SAT solving KW - Algorithm portfolios KW - Programming by optimization KW - Automated parallelization Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2016.05.004 SN - 0004-3702 SN - 1872-7921 VL - 244 SP - 272 EP - 290 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baedke, Jan A1 - Schöttler, Tobias T1 - Visual Metaphors in the Sciences BT - the Case of Epigenetic Landscape Images JF - Journal for General Philosophy of Science N2 - Recent philosophical analyses of the epistemic dimension of images in the sciences show a certain trend in acknowledging potential roles of these images beyond their merely decorative or pedagogical functions. We argue, however, that this new debate has yet paid little attention to a special type of pictures, we call ‘visual metaphor’, and its versatile heuristic potential in organizing data, supporting communication, and guiding research, modeling, and theory formation. Based on a case study of Conrad Hal Waddington’s epigenetic landscape images in biology, we develop a descriptive framework applicable to heuristic roles of various visual metaphors in the sciences. KW - Conrad Hal Waddington KW - Epigenetic landscape KW - Modelling KW - Scientific images KW - Theory formation KW - Visual metaphor Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-016-9353-9 SN - 0925-4560 SN - 1572-8587 VL - 48 SP - 173 EP - 194 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - THES A1 - Andjelkovic, Marko T1 - A methodology for characterization, modeling and mitigation of single event transient effects in CMOS standard combinational cells T1 - Eine Methode zur Charakterisierung, Modellierung und Minderung von SET Effekten in kombinierten CMOS-Standardzellen N2 - With the downscaling of CMOS technologies, the radiation-induced Single Event Transient (SET) effects in combinational logic have become a critical reliability issue for modern integrated circuits (ICs) intended for operation under harsh radiation conditions. The SET pulses generated in combinational logic may propagate through the circuit and eventually result in soft errors. It has thus become an imperative to address the SET effects in the early phases of the radiation-hard IC design. In general, the soft error mitigation solutions should accommodate both static and dynamic measures to ensure the optimal utilization of available resources. An efficient soft-error-aware design should address synergistically three main aspects: (i) characterization and modeling of soft errors, (ii) multi-level soft error mitigation, and (iii) online soft error monitoring. Although significant results have been achieved, the effectiveness of SET characterization methods, accuracy of predictive SET models, and efficiency of SET mitigation measures are still critical issues. Therefore, this work addresses the following topics: (i) Characterization and modeling of SET effects in standard combinational cells, (ii) Static mitigation of SET effects in standard combinational cells, and (iii) Online particle detection, as a support for dynamic soft error mitigation. Since the standard digital libraries are widely used in the design of radiation-hard ICs, the characterization of SET effects in standard cells and the availability of accurate SET models for the Soft Error Rate (SER) evaluation are the main prerequisites for efficient radiation-hard design. This work introduces an approach for the SPICE-based standard cell characterization with the reduced number of simulations, improved SET models and optimized SET sensitivity database. It has been shown that the inherent similarities in the SET response of logic cells for different input levels can be utilized to reduce the number of required simulations. Based on characterization results, the fitting models for the SET sensitivity metrics (critical charge, generated SET pulse width and propagated SET pulse width) have been developed. The proposed models are based on the principle of superposition, and they express explicitly the dependence of the SET sensitivity of individual combinational cells on design, operating and irradiation parameters. In contrast to the state-of-the-art characterization methodologies which employ extensive look-up tables (LUTs) for storing the simulation results, this work proposes the use of LUTs for storing the fitting coefficients of the SET sensitivity models derived from the characterization results. In that way the amount of characterization data in the SET sensitivity database is reduced significantly. The initial step in enhancing the robustness of combinational logic is the application of gate-level mitigation techniques. As a result, significant improvement of the overall SER can be achieved with minimum area, delay and power overheads. For the SET mitigation in standard cells, it is essential to employ the techniques that do not require modifying the cell structure. This work introduces the use of decoupling cells for improving the robustness of standard combinational cells. By insertion of two decoupling cells at the output of a target cell, the critical charge of the cell’s output node is increased and the attenuation of short SETs is enhanced. In comparison to the most common gate-level techniques (gate upsizing and gate duplication), the proposed approach provides better SET filtering. However, as there is no single gate-level mitigation technique with optimal performance, a combination of multiple techniques is required. This work introduces a comprehensive characterization of gate-level mitigation techniques aimed to quantify their impact on the SET robustness improvement, as well as introduced area, delay and power overhead per gate. By characterizing the gate-level mitigation techniques together with the standard cells, the required effort in subsequent SER analysis of a target design can be reduced. The characterization database of the hardened standard cells can be utilized as a guideline for selection of the most appropriate mitigation solution for a given design. As a support for dynamic soft error mitigation techniques, it is important to enable the online detection of energetic particles causing the soft errors. This allows activating the power-greedy fault-tolerant configurations based on N-modular redundancy only at the high radiation levels. To enable such a functionality, it is necessary to monitor both the particle flux and the variation of particle LET, as these two parameters contribute significantly to the system SER. In this work, a particle detection approach based on custom-sized pulse stretching inverters is proposed. Employing the pulse stretching inverters connected in parallel enables to measure the particle flux in terms of the number of detected SETs, while the particle LET variations can be estimated from the distribution of SET pulse widths. This approach requires a purely digital processing logic, in contrast to the standard detectors which require complex mixed-signal processing. Besides the possibility of LET monitoring, additional advantages of the proposed particle detector are low detection latency and power consumption, and immunity to error accumulation. The results achieved in this thesis can serve as a basis for establishment of an overall soft-error-aware database for a given digital library, and a comprehensive multi-level radiation-hard design flow that can be implemented with the standard IC design tools. The following step will be to evaluate the achieved results with the irradiation experiments. N2 - Mit der Verkleinerung der Strukturen moderner CMOS-Technologien sind strahlungsinduzierte Single Event Transient (SET)-Effekte in kombinatorischer Logik zu einem kritischen Zuverlässigkeitsproblem in integrierten Schaltkreisen (ICs) geworden, die für den Betrieb unter rauen Strahlungsbedingungen (z. B. im Weltraum) vorgesehen sind. Die in der Kombinationslogik erzeugten SET-Impulse können durch die Schaltungen propagieren und schließlich in Speicherelementen (z.B. Flip-Flops oder Latches) zwischengespeichert werden, was zu sogenannten Soft-Errors und folglich zu Datenbeschädigungen oder einem Systemausfall führt. Daher ist es in den frühen Phasen des strahlungsharten IC-Designs unerlässlich geworden, die SET-Effekte systematisch anzugehen. Im Allgemeinen sollten die Lösungen zur Minderung von Soft-Errors sowohl statische als auch dynamische Maßnahmen berücksichtigen, um die optimale Nutzung der verfügbaren Ressourcen sicherzustellen. Somit sollte ein effizientes Soft-Error-Aware-Design drei Hauptaspekte synergistisch berücksichtigen: (i) die Charakterisierung und Modellierung von Soft-Errors, (ii) eine mehrstufige-Soft-Error-Minderung und (iii) eine Online-Soft-Error-Überwachung. Obwohl signifikante Ergebnisse erzielt wurden, sind die Wirksamkeit der SET-Charakterisierung, die Genauigkeit von Vorhersagemodellen und die Effizienz der Minderungsmaßnahmen immer noch die kritischen Punkte. Daher stellt diese Arbeit die folgenden Originalbeiträge vor: • Eine ganzheitliche Methodik zur SPICE-basierten Charakterisierung von SET-Effekten in kombinatorischen Standardzellen und entsprechenden Härtungskonfigurationen auf Gate-Ebene mit reduzierter Anzahl von Simulationen und reduzierter SET-Sensitivitätsdatenbank. • Analytische Modelle für SET-Empfindlichkeit (kritische Ladung, erzeugte SET-Pulsbreite und propagierte SET-Pulsbreite), basierend auf dem Superpositionsprinzip und Anpassung der Ergebnisse aus SPICE-Simulationen. • Ein Ansatz zur SET-Abschwächung auf Gate-Ebene, der auf dem Einfügen von zwei Entkopplungszellen am Ausgang eines Logikgatters basiert, was den Anstieg der kritischen Ladung und die signifikante Unterdrückung kurzer SETs beweist. • Eine vergleichende Charakterisierung der vorgeschlagenen SET-Abschwächungstechnik mit Entkopplungszellen und sieben bestehenden Techniken durch eine quantitative Bewertung ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Verbesserung der SET-Robustheit einzelner Logikgatter. • Ein Partikeldetektor auf Basis von Impulsdehnungs-Invertern in Skew-Größe zur Online-Überwachung des Partikelflusses und der LET-Variationen mit rein digitaler Anzeige. Die in dieser Dissertation erzielten Ergebnisse können als Grundlage für den Aufbau einer umfassenden Soft-Error-aware-Datenbank für eine gegebene digitale Bibliothek und eines umfassenden mehrstufigen strahlungsharten Designflusses dienen, der mit den Standard-IC-Designtools implementiert werden kann. Im nächsten Schritt werden die mit den Bestrahlungsexperimenten erzielten Ergebnisse ausgewertet. KW - Single Event Transient KW - radiation hardness design KW - Single Event Transient KW - Strahlungshärte Entwurf Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-534843 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Neubauer, Kai A1 - Haubelt, Christian A1 - Wanko, Philipp A1 - Schaub, Torsten T1 - Utilizing quad-trees for efficient design space exploration with partial assignment evaluation T2 - 2018 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) N2 - Recently, it has been shown that constraint-based symbolic solving techniques offer an efficient way for deciding binding and routing options in order to obtain a feasible system level implementation. In combination with various background theories, a feasibility analysis of the resulting system may already be performed on partial solutions. That is, infeasible subsets of mapping and routing options can be pruned early in the decision process, which fastens the solving accordingly. However, allowing a proper design space exploration including multi-objective optimization also requires an efficient structure for storing and managing non-dominated solutions. In this work, we propose and study the usage of the Quad-Tree data structure in the context of partial assignment evaluation during system synthesis. Out experiments show that unnecessary dominance checks can be avoided, which indicates a preference of Quad-Trees over a commonly used list-based implementation for large combinatorial optimization problems. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-5090-0602-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2018.8297362 SN - 2153-6961 SP - 434 EP - 439 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Afantenos, Stergos A1 - Peldszus, Andreas A1 - Stede, Manfred T1 - Comparing decoding mechanisms for parsing argumentative structures JF - Argument & Computation N2 - Parsing of argumentative structures has become a very active line of research in recent years. Like discourse parsing or any other natural language task that requires prediction of linguistic structures, most approaches choose to learn a local model and then perform global decoding over the local probability distributions, often imposing constraints that are specific to the task at hand. Specifically for argumentation parsing, two decoding approaches have been recently proposed: Minimum Spanning Trees (MST) and Integer Linear Programming (ILP), following similar trends in discourse parsing. In contrast to discourse parsing though, where trees are not always used as underlying annotation schemes, argumentation structures so far have always been represented with trees. Using the ‘argumentative microtext corpus’ [in: Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon 2015 / Vol. 2, College Publications, London, 2016, pp. 801–815] as underlying data and replicating three different decoding mechanisms, in this paper we propose a novel ILP decoder and an extension to our earlier MST work, and then thoroughly compare the approaches. The result is that our new decoder outperforms related work in important respects, and that in general, ILP and MST yield very similar performance. KW - Argumentation structure KW - argument mining KW - parsing Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-180033 SN - 1946-2166 SN - 1946-2174 VL - 9 IS - 3 SP - 177 EP - 192 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sahlmann, Kristina A1 - Schwotzer, Thomas T1 - Ontology-based virtual IoT devices for edge computing T2 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things N2 - An IoT network may consist of hundreds heterogeneous devices. Some of them may be constrained in terms of memory, power, processing and network capacity. Manual network and service management of IoT devices are challenging. We propose a usage of an ontology for the IoT device descriptions enabling automatic network management as well as service discovery and aggregation. Our IoT architecture approach ensures interoperability using existing standards, i.e. MQTT protocol and SemanticWeb technologies. We herein introduce virtual IoT devices and their semantic framework deployed at the edge of network. As a result, virtual devices are enabled to aggregate capabilities of IoT devices, derive new services by inference, delegate requests/responses and generate events. Furthermore, they can collect and pre-process sensor data. These tasks on the edge computing overcome the shortcomings of the cloud usage regarding siloization, network bandwidth, latency and speed. We validate our proposition by implementing a virtual device on a Raspberry Pi. KW - Internet of Things KW - Edge Computing KW - oneM2M Ontology KW - M2M KW - Semantic Interoperability KW - MQTT Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-4503-6564-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3277593.3277597 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER - TY - GEN A1 - Böhne, Sebastian A1 - Kreitz, Christoph T1 - Learning how to prove BT - from the coq proof assistant to textbook style T2 - Electronic proceedings in theoretical computer science N2 - We have developed an alternative approach to teaching computer science students how to prove. First, students are taught how to prove theorems with the Coq proof assistant. In a second, more difficult, step students will transfer their acquired skills to the area of textbook proofs. In this article we present a realisation of the second step. Proofs in Coq have a high degree of formality while textbook proofs have only a medium one. Therefore our key idea is to reduce the degree of formality from the level of Coq to textbook proofs in several small steps. For that purpose we introduce three proof styles between Coq and textbook proofs, called line by line comments, weakened line by line comments, and structure faithful proofs. While this article is mostly conceptional we also report on experiences with putting our approach into practise. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.267.1 SN - 2075-2180 IS - 267 SP - 1 EP - 18 PB - Open Publishing Association CY - Sydney ER -