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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.3
The Safe and Effective Use of Low-Assurance Predictions in Safety-Critical Systems

Authors: Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, Michael A. Bender, and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 262, 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023)

Abstract
The algorithm-design paradigm of algorithms using predictions is explored as a means of incorporating the computations of lower-assurance components (such as machine-learning based ones) into safety-critical systems that must have their correctness validated to very high levels of assurance. The paradigm is applied to two simple example applications that are relevant to the real-time systems community: energy-aware scheduling, and classification using ML-based classifiers in conjunction with more reliable but slower deterministic classifiers. It is shown how algorithms using predictions achieve much-improved performance when the low-assurance computations are correct, at a cost of no more than a slight performance degradation even when they turn out to be completely wrong.
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Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, Michael A. Bender, and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela. The Safe and Effective Use of Low-Assurance Predictions in Safety-Critical Systems. In 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 262, pp. 3:1-3:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.3,
  author =	{Agrawal, Kunal and Baruah, Sanjoy and Bender, Michael A. and Marchetti-Spaccamela, Alberto},
  title =	{{The Safe and Effective Use of Low-Assurance Predictions in Safety-Critical Systems}},
  booktitle =	{35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-280-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{262},
  editor =	{Papadopoulos, Alessandro V.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-180323},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithms using predictions, robust scheduling, energy minimization, classification, on-line scheduling}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2020.7
The Safe and Effective Use of Learning-Enabled Components in Safety-Critical Systems

Authors: Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, and Alan Burns

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 165, 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2020)

Abstract
Autonomous systems increasingly use components that incorporate machine learning and other AI-based techniques in order to achieve improved performance. The problem of assuring correctness in safety-critical systems that use such components is considered. A model is proposed in which components are characterized according to both their worst-case and their typical behaviors; it is argued that while safety must be assured under all circumstances, it is reasonable to be concerned with providing a high degree of performance for typical behaviors only. The problem of assuring safety while providing such improved performance is formulated as an optimization problem in which performance under typical circumstances is the objective function to be optimized while safety is a hard constraint that must be satisfied. Algorithmic techniques are applied to derive an optimal solution to this optimization problem. This optimal solution is compared with an alternative approach that optimizes for performance under worst-case conditions, as well as some common-sense heuristics, via simulation experiments on synthetically-generated workloads.
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Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, and Alan Burns. The Safe and Effective Use of Learning-Enabled Components in Safety-Critical Systems. In 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 165, pp. 7:1-7:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2020.7,
  author =	{Agrawal, Kunal and Baruah, Sanjoy and Burns, Alan},
  title =	{{The Safe and Effective Use of Learning-Enabled Components in Safety-Critical Systems}},
  booktitle =	{32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2020)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-152-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{165},
  editor =	{V\"{o}lp, Marcus},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2020.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-123704},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2020.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Learning-enabled components (LECs), Safety-critical systems, Typical analysis, Performance optimization, Run-time monitoring}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.9.3.1
Analysis, Design, and Control of Predictable Interconnected Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 19101)

Authors: Kunal Agrawal, Enrico Bini, and Giovanni Stea

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 9, Issue 3 (2019)

Abstract
We call "Interconnected Systems" any collection of systems distributed over a metric space whose behavior is influenced by its neighborhood. Examples of interconnected systems exist at very different scales: different cores over the same silicon, different sub-systems in vehicles, communicating nodes over either a physical (e.g., optical) network, or - more recently - virtualized network. Examples also exist in contexts which are not related to computing or communication. Smart Grids (of energy production, distribution, and consumption) and Intelligent Transportation Systems are just two notable examples. The common characteristic among all these examples is the presence of a spatially distributed demand of resources (energy, computing, communication bandwidth, etc.) which needs to be matched with a spatially distributed supply. Often times demands and availability of resources of different types (e.g., computing and link bandwidth in virtualized network environments) need to be matched simultaneously. Time predictability is a key requirement for above systems. Despite this, the strong market pressure has often led to ``quick and dirty'' best-effort solutions, which make it extremely challenging to predict the behavior of such systems. Research communities have developed formal theories for predictability which are specialized to each application domain or type of resource (e.g., schedulability analysis for real-time systems or network calculus for communication systems). However, the emerging application domains (virtualized networks, cyber-physical systems, etc.) clearly require a unified, holistic approach. By leveraging the expertise, vision and interactions of scientists that have addressed predictability in different areas, the proposed seminar aims at constructing a common ground for the theory supporting the analysis, the design, and the control of predictable interconnected systems.
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Kunal Agrawal, Enrico Bini, and Giovanni Stea. Analysis, Design, and Control of Predictable Interconnected Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 19101). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 9, Issue 3, pp. 1-15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@Article{agrawal_et_al:DagRep.9.3.1,
  author =	{Agrawal, Kunal and Bini, Enrico and Stea, Giovanni},
  title =	{{Analysis, Design, and Control of Predictable Interconnected Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 19101)}},
  pages =	{1--15},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{9},
  number =	{3},
  editor =	{Agrawal, Kunal and Bini, Enrico and Stea, Giovanni},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.9.3.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112882},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.9.3.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: distributed resource management, network calculus, real-time systems}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LITES-v006-i001-a005
Elastic Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Systems

Authors: James Orr, Chris Gill, Kunal Agrawal, Jing Li, and Sanjoy Baruah

Published in: LITES, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2019). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 6, Issue 1

Abstract
The elastic task model was introduced by Buttazzo et al.~in order to represent recurrent real-time workloads executing upon uniprocessor platforms that are somewhat flexible with regards to timing constraints.  In this work, we propose an extension of this model and apply it to represent recurrent real-time workloads that exhibit internal parallelism and are executed on multiprocessor platforms. In our proposed extension, the elasticity coefficient - the quantitative measure of a task's elasticity that was introduced in the model proposed by Buttazzo et al. - is interpreted in the same manner as in the original (sequential) model. Hence, system developers who are familiar with the elastic task model in the uniprocessor context may use our more general model as they had previously done, now for real-time tasks whose computational demands require them to utilize more than one processor.
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James Orr, Chris Gill, Kunal Agrawal, Jing Li, and Sanjoy Baruah. Elastic Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Systems. In LITES, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2019). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 05:1-05:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@Article{orr_et_al:LITES-v006-i001-a005,
  author =	{Orr, James and Gill, Chris and Agrawal, Kunal and Li, Jing and Baruah, Sanjoy},
  title =	{{Elastic Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Systems}},
  journal =	{Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems},
  pages =	{05:1--05:14},
  ISSN =	{2199-2002},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{6},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LITES-v006-i001-a005},
  doi =		{10.4230/LITES-v006-i001-a005},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parallel real-time tasks, multiprocessor federated scheduling, elasticity coefficient}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.5
A Measurement-Based Model for Parallel Real-Time Tasks

Authors: Kunal Agrawal and Sanjoy Baruah

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 106, 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018)

Abstract
Under the federated paradigm of multiprocessor scheduling, a set of processors is reserved for the exclusive use of each real-time task. If tasks are characterized very conservatively (as is typical in safety-critical systems), it is likely that most invocations of the task will have computational demand far below the worst-case characterization, and could have been scheduled correctly upon far fewer processors than were assigned to it assuming the worst-case characterization of its run-time behavior. Provided we could safely determine during run-time when all the processors are going to be needed, for the rest of the time the unneeded processors could be idled in low-energy "sleep" mode, or used for executing non-real time work in the background. In this paper we propose a model for representing parallelizable real-time tasks in a manner that permits us to do so. Our model does not require us to have fine-grained knowledge of the internal structure of the code represented by the task; rather, it characterizes each task by a few parameters that are obtained by repeatedly executing the code under different conditions and measuring the run-times.
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Kunal Agrawal and Sanjoy Baruah. A Measurement-Based Model for Parallel Real-Time Tasks. In 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 106, pp. 5:1-5:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.5,
  author =	{Agrawal, Kunal and Baruah, Sanjoy},
  title =	{{A Measurement-Based Model for Parallel Real-Time Tasks}},
  booktitle =	{30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-075-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{106},
  editor =	{Altmeyer, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-89999},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: multiprocessor federated scheduling, parallel tasks, work and span, mixed criticality}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.11
Intractability Issues in Mixed-Criticality Scheduling

Authors: Kunal Agrawal and Sanjoy Baruah

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 106, 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018)

Abstract
In seeking to develop mixed-criticality scheduling algorithms, one encounters challenges arising from two sources. First, mixed-criticality scheduling is an inherently an on-line problem in that scheduling decisions must be made without access to all the information that is needed to make such decisions optimally - such information is only revealed over time. Second, many fundamental mixed-criticality schedulability analysis problems are computationally intractable - NP-hard in the strong sense - but we desire to solve these problems using algorithms with polynomial or pseudo-polynomial running time. While these two aspects of intractability are traditionally studied separately in the theoretical computer science literature, they have been considered in an integrated fashion in mixed-criticality scheduling theory. In this work we seek to separate out the effects of being inherently on-line, and being computationally intractable, on the overall intractability of mixed-criticality scheduling problems. Speedup factor is widely used as quantitative metric of the effectiveness of mixed-criticality scheduling algorithms; there has recently been a bit of a debate regarding the appropriateness of doing so. We provide here some additional perspective on this matter: we seek to better understand its appropriateness as well as its limitations in this regard by examining separately how the on-line nature of some mixed-criticality problems, and their computational complexity, contribute to the speedup factors of two widely-studied mixed-criticality scheduling algorithms.
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Kunal Agrawal and Sanjoy Baruah. Intractability Issues in Mixed-Criticality Scheduling. In 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 106, pp. 11:1-11:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.11,
  author =	{Agrawal, Kunal and Baruah, Sanjoy},
  title =	{{Intractability Issues in Mixed-Criticality Scheduling}},
  booktitle =	{30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-075-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{106},
  editor =	{Altmeyer, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-89925},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: mixed-criticality scheduling, speedup factor, competitive ratio, approximation ratio, NP-completeness results, sporadic tasks}
}
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