Abstract monitors for quantitative specifications

Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2022. Abstract monitors for quantitative specifications. 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification. RV: Runtime Verification, LNCS, vol. 13498, 200–220.

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Quantitative monitoring can be universal and approximate: For every finite sequence of observations, the specification provides a value and the monitor outputs a best-effort approximation of it. The quality of the approximation may depend on the resources that are available to the monitor. By taking to the limit the sequences of specification values and monitor outputs, we obtain precision-resource trade-offs also for limit monitoring. This paper provides a formal framework for studying such trade-offs using an abstract interpretation for monitors: For each natural number n, the aggregate semantics of a monitor at time n is an equivalence relation over all sequences of at most n observations so that two equivalent sequences are indistinguishable to the monitor and thus mapped to the same output. This abstract interpretation of quantitative monitors allows us to measure the number of equivalence classes (or “resource use”) that is necessary for a certain precision up to a certain time, or at any time. Our framework offers several insights. For example, we identify a family of specifications for which any resource-optimal exact limit monitor is independent of any error permitted over finite traces. Moreover, we present a specification for which any resource-optimal approximate limit monitor does not minimize its resource use at any time.
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Date Published
2022-09-23
Proceedings Title
22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification
Publisher
Springer Nature
Acknowledgement
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093.
Volume
13498
Page
200-220
Conference
RV: Runtime Verification
Conference Location
Tbilisi, Georgia
Conference Date
2022-09-28 – 2022-09-30
ISSN
IST-REx-ID

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Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. Abstract monitors for quantitative specifications. In: 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification. Vol 13498. Springer Nature; 2022:200-220. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11
Henzinger, T. A., Mazzocchi, N. A., & Sarac, N. E. (2022). Abstract monitors for quantitative specifications. In 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification (Vol. 13498, pp. 200–220). Tbilisi, Georgia: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11
Henzinger, Thomas A, Nicolas Adrien Mazzocchi, and Naci E Sarac. “Abstract Monitors for Quantitative Specifications.” In 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification, 13498:200–220. Springer Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11.
T. A. Henzinger, N. A. Mazzocchi, and N. E. Sarac, “Abstract monitors for quantitative specifications,” in 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022, vol. 13498, pp. 200–220.
Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2022. Abstract monitors for quantitative specifications. 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification. RV: Runtime Verification, LNCS, vol. 13498, 200–220.
Henzinger, Thomas A., et al. “Abstract Monitors for Quantitative Specifications.” 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification, vol. 13498, Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 200–20, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17196-3_11.
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