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6 papers

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.RO2025

Engineering Automotive Digital Twins on Standardized Architectures: A Case Study

Stefan Ramdhan, Winnie Trandinh, Istvan David +2

Digital twin (DT) technology has become of interest in the automotive industry. There is a growing need for smarter services that utilize the unique capabilities of DTs, ranging fr…

cs.SE2025

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…