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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.20
A Normalized Edit Distance on Infinite Words

Authors: Dana Fisman, Joshua Grogin, and Gera Weiss

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 252, 31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023)

Abstract
We introduce ω^ ̅-NED, an edit distance between infinite words, that is a natural extension of NED, the normalized edit distance between finite words. We show it is a metric on (equivalence classes of) infinite words. We provide a polynomial time algorithm to compute the distance between two ultimately periodic words, and a polynomial time algorithm to compute the distance between two regular ω-languages given by non-deterministic Büchi automata.
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Dana Fisman, Joshua Grogin, and Gera Weiss. A Normalized Edit Distance on Infinite Words. In 31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 252, pp. 20:1-20:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{fisman_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2023.20,
  author =	{Fisman, Dana and Grogin, Joshua and Weiss, Gera},
  title =	{{A Normalized Edit Distance on Infinite Words}},
  booktitle =	{31st EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2023)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-264-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{252},
  editor =	{Klin, Bartek and Pimentel, Elaine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174818},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Edit Distance, Infinite Words, Robustness}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.5
Polynomial-Time Verification and Testing of Implementations of the Snapshot Data Structure

Authors: Gal Amram, Avi Hayoun, Lior Mizrahi, and Gera Weiss

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 246, 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)

Abstract
We analyze correctness of implementations of the snapshot data structure in terms of linearizability. We show that such implementations can be verified in polynomial time. Additionally, we identify a set of representative executions for testing and show that the correctness of each of these executions can be validated in linear time. These results present a significant speedup considering that verifying linearizability of implementations of concurrent data structures, in general, is EXPSPACE-complete in the number of program-states, and testing linearizability is NP-complete in the length of the tested execution. The crux of our approach is identifying a class of executions, which we call simple, such that a snapshot implementation is linearizable if and only if all of its simple executions are linearizable. We then divide all possible non-linearizable simple executions into three categories and construct a small automaton that recognizes each category. We describe two implementations (one for verification and one for testing) of an automata-based approach that we develop based on this result and an evaluation that demonstrates significant improvements over existing tools. For verification, we show that restricting a state-of-the-art tool to analyzing only simple executions saves resources and allows the analysis of more complex cases. Specifically, restricting attention to simple executions finds bugs in 27 instances, whereas, without this restriction, we were only able to find 14 of the 30 bugs in the instances we examined. We also show that our technique accelerates testing performance significantly. Specifically, our implementation solves the complete set of 900 problems we generated, whereas the state-of-the-art linearizability testing tool solves only 554 problems.
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Gal Amram, Avi Hayoun, Lior Mizrahi, and Gera Weiss. Polynomial-Time Verification and Testing of Implementations of the Snapshot Data Structure. In 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 246, pp. 5:1-5:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{amram_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2022.5,
  author =	{Amram, Gal and Hayoun, Avi and Mizrahi, Lior and Weiss, Gera},
  title =	{{Polynomial-Time Verification and Testing of Implementations of the Snapshot Data Structure}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-255-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{246},
  editor =	{Scheideler, Christian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171964},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2022.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Snapshot, Linearizability, Verification, Formal Methods}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17
The Normalized Edit Distance with Uniform Operation Costs Is a Metric

Authors: Dana Fisman, Joshua Grogin, Oded Margalit, and Gera Weiss

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 223, 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)

Abstract
We prove that the normalized edit distance proposed in [Marzal and Vidal 1993] is a metric when the cost of all the edit operations are the same. This closes a long standing gap in the literature where several authors noted that this distance does not satisfy the triangle inequality in the general case, and that it was not known whether it is satisfied in the uniform case - where all the edit costs are equal. We compare this metric to two normalized metrics proposed as alternatives in the literature, when people thought that Marzal’s and Vidal’s distance is not a metric, and identify key properties that explain why the original distance, now known to also be a metric, is better for some applications. Our examination is from a point of view of formal verification, but the properties and their significance are stated in an application agnostic way.
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Dana Fisman, Joshua Grogin, Oded Margalit, and Gera Weiss. The Normalized Edit Distance with Uniform Operation Costs Is a Metric. In 33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 223, pp. 17:1-17:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{fisman_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17,
  author =	{Fisman, Dana and Grogin, Joshua and Margalit, Oded and Weiss, Gera},
  title =	{{The Normalized Edit Distance with Uniform Operation Costs Is a Metric}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2022)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-234-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{223},
  editor =	{Bannai, Hideo and Holub, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-161446},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2022.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: edit distance, normalized distance, triangle inequality, metric}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.85
On the Succinctness of Idioms for Concurrent Programming

Authors: David Harel, Guy Katz, Robby Lampert, Assaf Marron, and Gera Weiss

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 42, 26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015)

Abstract
The ability to create succinct programs is a central criterion for comparing programming and specification methods. Specifically, approaches to concurrent programming can often be thought of as idioms for the composition of automata, and as such they can then be compared using the standard and natural measure for the complexity of automata, descriptive succinctness. This measure captures the size of the automata that the evaluated approach needs for expressing the languages under discussion. The significance of this metric lies, among other things, in its impact on software reliability, maintainability, reusability and simplicity, and on software analysis and verification. Here, we focus on the succinctness afforded by three basic concurrent programming idioms: requesting events, blocking events and waiting for events. We show that a programming model containing all three idioms is exponentially more succinct than non-parallel automata, and that its succinctness is additive to that of classical nondeterministic and "and" automata. We also show that our model is strictly contained in the model of cooperating automata à la statecharts, but that it may provide similar exponential succinctness over non-parallel automata as the more general model - while affording increased encapsulation. We then investigate the contribution of each of the three idioms to the descriptive succinctness of the model as a whole, and show that they each have their unique succinctness advantages that are not subsumed by their counterparts. Our results contribute to a rigorous basis for assessing the complexity of specifying, developing and maintaining complex concurrent software.
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David Harel, Guy Katz, Robby Lampert, Assaf Marron, and Gera Weiss. On the Succinctness of Idioms for Concurrent Programming. In 26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 42, pp. 85-99, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{harel_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.85,
  author =	{Harel, David and Katz, Guy and Lampert, Robby and Marron, Assaf and Weiss, Gera},
  title =	{{On the Succinctness of Idioms for Concurrent Programming}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015)},
  pages =	{85--99},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-91-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{42},
  editor =	{Aceto, Luca and de Frutos Escrig, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.85},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53849},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.85},
  annote =	{Keywords: Descriptive Succinctness, Module Size, Automata, Bounded Concurrency}
}
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