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most citedSearch-based Trace Diagnostic for Cyber-Physical Systems

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cs.SE2026

Domain-Knowledge Driven Configuration Tuning of Kubernetes Workloads

Federico Imberti, Luca Cavagnis, Stefano Cereda +2

Industrial software applications often require engineers to tune the software deployment platform. Configuration tuning identifies valuable configurations that minimize costs while…

cs.SE2026

Property-Driven Synthetic Data Engineering for Data-Scarce Software Systems: Reflections from the Breast Cancer Domain

Aurora Francesca Zanenga, Andrea Bombarda, Marsha Chechik +4

Modern software systems increasingly depend on data for analysis, prediction, testing, and decision-making. Yet many important domains, including medicine, safety-critical systems,…

cs.SE2026

Engineering Resource-constrained Software Systems with DNN Components: a Concept-based Pruning Approach

Federico Formica, Andrea Rota, Aurora Francesca Zanenga +4

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used by engineers to solve difficult problems that require predictive modeling from data. However, these models are often massive, with milli…

cs.LG2026

Ensembles-based Feature Guided Analysis

Federico Formica, Stefano Gregis, Andrea Rota +3

Recent Deep Neural Networks (DNN) applications ask for techniques that can explain their behavior. Existing solutions, such as Feature Guided Analysis (FGA), extract rules on their…

cs.SE2025

Search-based Software Testing Driven by Domain Knowledge: Reflections and New Perspectives

Federico Formica, Mark Lawford, Claudio Menghi

Search-based Software Testing (SBST) can automatically generate test cases to search for requirements violations. Unlike manual test case development, it can generate a substantial…

cs.LG2025

Feature-Guided Analysis of Neural Networks: A Replication Study

Federico Formica, Stefano Gregis, Aurora Francesca Zanenga +3

Understanding why neural networks make certain decisions is pivotal for their use in safety-critical applications. Feature-Guided Analysis (FGA) extracts slices of neural networks…

cs.SE2025

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis: An Experience from the E-Bike Domain

Andrea Bombarda, Federico Conti, Marcello Minervini +2

Software failures can have catastrophic and costly consequences. Functional Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a standard technique used within Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Test Case Generation for Simulink Models: An Experience from the E-Bike Domain

Michael Marzella, Andrea Bombarda, Marcello Minervini +3

Cyber-physical systems development often requires engineers to search for defects in their Simulink models. Search-based software testing (SBST) is a standard technology that suppo…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Search-based Testing of Simulink Models with Requirements Tables

Federico Formica, Chris George, Shayda Rahmatyan +4

Search-based software testing (SBST) of Simulink models helps find scenarios that demonstrate that the system can reach a state that violates one of its requirements. However, many…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Search-based Trace Diagnostic for Cyber-Physical Systems

Gabriel Araujo, Ricardo Caldas, Federico Formica +3

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) development requires verifying whether system behaviors violate their requirements. This analysis often considers system behaviors expressed by executi…