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Monitoring Distributed Systems Using Knowledge

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Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2011, FORTE 2011)

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In this paper, we use knowledge-based control theory to monitor global properties in a distributed system. We control the system to enforce that if a given global property is violated, at least one process knows this fact, and therefore may report it. Our approach uses knowledge properties that are precalculated based on model checking. As local knowledge is not always sufficient to monitor a global property in a concurrent system, we allow adding temporary synchronizations between two or more processes to achieve sufficient knowledge. Since synchronizations are expensive, we aim at minimizing their number using the knowledge analysis.

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  1. VERIMAG, Centre Equation, Avenue de Vignate, 38610, Gières, France

    Susanne Graf

  2. Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel

    Doron Peled

  3. Institute of Computer and Network Engineering, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Sophie Quinton

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy

    Roberto Bruni

  2. School of Computing, Queen’s University, 723 Goodwin Hall, K7L 3N6, Kingston, ON, Canada

    Juergen Dingel

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Graf, S., Peled, D., Quinton, S. (2011). Monitoring Distributed Systems Using Knowledge. In: Bruni, R., Dingel, J. (eds) Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems. FMOODS FORTE 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21461-5_12

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