11 Search Results for "Wilhelm, Marcus"


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A Survey of Real-Time Support, Analysis, and Advancements in ROS 2

Authors: Daniel Casini, Jian-Jia Chen, Jing Li, Federico Reghenzani, and Harun Teper

Published in: LITES, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2026). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 11, Issue 1


Abstract
The Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) has emerged as a relevant middleware framework for robotic applications, offering modularity, distributed execution, and communication. In the last six years, ROS 2 has drawn increasing attention from the real-time systems community and industry. This survey presents a comprehensive overview of research efforts that analyze, enhance, and extend ROS 2 to support real-time execution. We first provide a detailed description of the internal scheduling mechanisms of ROS 2 and its layered architecture, including the interaction with DDS-based communication and other communication middleware. We then review key contributions from the literature, covering timing analysis for both single- and multi-threaded executors, metrics such as response time, reaction time, and data age, and different communication modes. The survey also discusses community-driven enhancements to the ROS 2 runtime, including new executor algorithm designs, real-time GPU management, and microcontroller support via micro-ROS. Furthermore, we summarize techniques for bounding DDS communication delays, message filters, and profiling tools that have been developed to support analysis and experimentation. To help systematize this growing body of work, we introduce taxonomies that classify the surveyed contributions based on different criteria. This survey aims to guide both researchers and practitioners in understanding and improving the real-time capabilities of ROS 2.

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Daniel Casini, Jian-Jia Chen, Jing Li, Federico Reghenzani, and Harun Teper. A Survey of Real-Time Support, Analysis, and Advancements in ROS 2. In LITES, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2026). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 1:1-1:37, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@Article{casini_et_al:LITES.11.1.1,
  author =	{Casini, Daniel and Chen, Jian-Jia and Li, Jing and Reghenzani, Federico and Teper, Harun},
  title =	{{A Survey of Real-Time Support, Analysis, and Advancements in ROS 2}},
  journal =	{Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems},
  pages =	{1:1--1:37},
  ISSN =	{2199-2002},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{11},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LITES.11.1.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-257914},
  doi =		{10.4230/LITES.11.1.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: ROS 2, middleware, real-time, timing predictability, publish-subscribe}
}
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Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web

Authors: Florian Ruosch, Cristina Sarasua, and Abraham Bernstein

Published in: TGDK, Volume 3, Issue 3 (2025). Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 3, Issue 3


Abstract
In Argument Mining, predicting argumentative relations between texts (or spans) remains one of the most challenging aspects, even more so in the cross-document setting. This paper makes three key contributions to advance research in this domain. We first extend an existing dataset, the Sci-Arg corpus, by annotating it with explicit inter-document argumentative relations, thereby allowing arguments to be distributed over several documents forming an Argument Web; these new annotations are published using Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL). Second, we explore and evaluate three automated approaches for predicting these inter-document argumentative relations, establishing critical baselines on the new dataset. We find that a simple classifier based on discourse indicators with access to context outperforms neural methods. Third, we conduct a comparative analysis of these approaches for both intra- and inter-document settings, identifying statistically significant differences in results that indicate the necessity of distinguishing between these two scenarios. Our findings highlight significant challenges in this complex domain and open crucial avenues for future research on the Argument Web of Science, particularly for those interested in leveraging Semantic Web technologies and knowledge graphs to understand scholarly discourse. With this, we provide the first stepping stones in the form of a benchmark dataset, three baseline methods, and an initial analysis for a systematic exploration of this field relevant to the Web of Data and Science.

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Florian Ruosch, Cristina Sarasua, and Abraham Bernstein. Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web. In Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 4:1-4:33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@Article{ruosch_et_al:TGDK.3.3.4,
  author =	{Ruosch, Florian and Sarasua, Cristina and Bernstein, Abraham},
  title =	{{Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{4:1--4:33},
  ISSN =	{2942-7517},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{3},
  number =	{3},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.3.3.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-252159},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.3.3.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Argument Mining, Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs, Link Prediction}
}
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Parameterized Complexity of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem

Authors: Václav Blažej, Andreas Emil Feldmann, Foivos Fioravantes, Paweł Rzążewski, and Ondřej Suchý

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 359, 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)


Abstract
The Directed Traveling Salesman Problem (DTSP) is a variant of the classical Traveling Salesman Problem in which the edges in the graph are directed and a vertex and edge can be visited multiple times. The goal is to find a directed closed walk of minimum length (or total weight) that visits every vertex of the given graph at least once. In a yet more general version, Directed Waypoint Routing Problem (DWRP), some vertices are marked as terminals and we are only required to visit all terminals. Furthermore, each edge has its capacity bounding the number of times this edge can be used by a solution. While both problems (and many other variants of TSP) were extensively investigated, mostly from the approximation point of view, there are surprisingly few results concerning the parameterized complexity. Our starting point is the result of Marx et al. [APPROX/RANDOM 2016] who proved that DTSP is W[1]-hard parameterized by distance to pathwidth 3. In this paper we aim to initiate the systematic complexity study of variants of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem with respect to various, mostly structural, parameters. We show that DWRP is FPT parameterized by the solution size, the feedback edge number and the vertex integrity of the underlying undirected graph. Furthermore, the problem is XP parameterized by treewidth. On the complexity side, we show that the problem is W[1]-hard parameterized by the distance to constant treedepth.

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Václav Blažej, Andreas Emil Feldmann, Foivos Fioravantes, Paweł Rzążewski, and Ondřej Suchý. Parameterized Complexity of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 15:1-15:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{blazej_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.15,
  author =	{Bla\v{z}ej, V\'{a}clav and Feldmann, Andreas Emil and Fioravantes, Foivos and Rz\k{a}\.{z}ewski, Pawe{\l} and Such\'{y}, Ond\v{r}ej},
  title =	{{Parameterized Complexity of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-408-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{359},
  editor =	{Chen, Ho-Lin and Hon, Wing-Kai and Tsai, Meng-Tsung},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249231},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Directed TSP, parameterized complexity, vertex integrity, treedepth}
}
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Fantastic Flips and Where to Find Them: A General Framework for Parameterized Local Search on Partitioning Problems

Authors: Niels Grüttemeier, Nils Morawietz, and Frank Sommer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 349, 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)


Abstract
Parameterized local search combines classic local search heuristics with the paradigm of parameterized algorithmics. While most local search algorithms aim to improve given solutions by performing one single operation on a given solution, the parameterized approach aims to improve a solution by performing k simultaneous operations. Herein, k is a parameter called search radius for which the value can be chosen by a user. One major goal in the field of parameterized local search is to outline the trade-off between the size of k and the running time of the local search step. In this work, we introduce an abstract framework that generalizes natural parameterized local search approaches for a large class of partitioning problems: Given n items that are partitioned into b bins and a target function that evaluates the quality of the current partition, one asks whether it is possible to improve the solution by removing up to k items from their current bins and reassigning them to other bins. Among others, our framework applies for the local search versions of problems like Cluster Editing, Vector Bin Packing, and Nash Social Welfare. Motivated by a real-world application of the problem Vector Bin Packing, we introduce a parameter called number of types τ ≤ n and show that all problems fitting in our framework can be solved in τ^k ⋅ 2^𝒪(k) ⋅ |I|^𝒪(1) time, where |I| denotes the total input size. In case of Cluster Editing, the parameter τ generalizes the well-known parameter neighborhood diversity of the input graph. We complement these algorithms by showing that for all considered problems, an algorithm significantly improving over our algorithm with running time τ^k ⋅ 2^𝒪(k) ⋅ |I|^𝒪(1) would contradict the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Additionally, we show that even on very restricted instances, all considered problems are W[1]-hard when parameterized by the search radius k alone. In case of the local search version of Vector Bin Packing, we provide an even stronger W[1]-hardness result.

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Niels Grüttemeier, Nils Morawietz, and Frank Sommer. Fantastic Flips and Where to Find Them: A General Framework for Parameterized Local Search on Partitioning Problems. In 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 349, pp. 32:1-32:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{gruttemeier_et_al:LIPIcs.WADS.2025.32,
  author =	{Gr\"{u}ttemeier, Niels and Morawietz, Nils and Sommer, Frank},
  title =	{{Fantastic Flips and Where to Find Them: A General Framework for Parameterized Local Search on Partitioning Problems}},
  booktitle =	{19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2025)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-398-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{349},
  editor =	{Morin, Pat and Oh, Eunjin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242631},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.WADS.2025.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Flip-Neighborhood, Cluster Editing, Vector Bin Packing, Vertex Cover, NP-hard problem, Max c-Cut}
}
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Structure and Independence in Hyperbolic Uniform Disk Graphs

Authors: Thomas Bläsius, Jean-Pierre von der Heydt, Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak, Marcus Wilhelm, and Geert van Wordragen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 332, 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)


Abstract
We consider intersection graphs of disks of radius r in the hyperbolic plane. Unlike the Euclidean setting, these graph classes are different for different values of r, where very small r corresponds to an almost-Euclidean setting and r ∈ Ω(log n) corresponds to a firmly hyperbolic setting. We observe that larger values of r create simpler graph classes, at least in terms of separators and the computational complexity of the Independent Set problem. First, we show that intersection graphs of disks of radius r in the hyperbolic plane can be separated with 𝒪((1+1/r)log n) cliques in a balanced manner. Our second structural insight concerns Delaunay complexes in the hyperbolic plane and may be of independent interest. We show that for any set S of n points with pairwise distance at least 2r in the hyperbolic plane, the corresponding Delaunay complex has outerplanarity 1+𝒪((log n)/r), which implies a similar bound on the balanced separators and treewidth of such Delaunay complexes. Using this outerplanarity (and treewidth) bound we prove that Independent Set can be solved in n^𝒪(1+(log n)/r) time. The algorithm is based on dynamic programming on some unknown sphere cut decomposition that is based on the solution. The resulting algorithm is a far-reaching generalization of a result of Kisfaludi-Bak (SODA 2020), and it is tight under the Exponential Time Hypothesis. In particular, Independent Set is polynomial-time solvable in the firmly hyperbolic setting of r ∈ Ω(log n). Finally, in the case when the disks have ply (depth) at most 𝓁, we give a PTAS for Maximum Independent Set that has only quasi-polynomial dependence on 1/ε and 𝓁. Our PTAS is a further generalization of our exact algorithm.

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Thomas Bläsius, Jean-Pierre von der Heydt, Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak, Marcus Wilhelm, and Geert van Wordragen. Structure and Independence in Hyperbolic Uniform Disk Graphs. In 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 332, pp. 21:1-21:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{blasius_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.21,
  author =	{Bl\"{a}sius, Thomas and von der Heydt, Jean-Pierre and Kisfaludi-Bak, S\'{a}ndor and Wilhelm, Marcus and van Wordragen, Geert},
  title =	{{Structure and Independence in Hyperbolic Uniform Disk Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-370-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{332},
  editor =	{Aichholzer, Oswin and Wang, Haitao},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231731},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: hyperbolic geometry, unit disk graphs, independent set, treewidth}
}
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Partitioning the Bags of a Tree Decomposition into Cliques

Authors: Thomas Bläsius, Maximilian Katzmann, and Marcus Wilhelm

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 265, 21st International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2023)


Abstract
We consider a variant of treewidth that we call clique-partitioned treewidth in which each bag is partitioned into cliques. This is motivated by the recent development of FPT-algorithms based on similar parameters for various problems. With this paper, we take a first step towards computing clique-partitioned tree decompositions. Our focus lies on the subproblem of computing clique partitions, i.e., for each bag of a given tree decomposition, we compute an optimal partition of the induced subgraph into cliques. The goal here is to minimize the product of the clique sizes (plus 1). We show that this problem is NP-hard. We also describe four heuristic approaches as well as an exact branch-and-bound algorithm. Our evaluation shows that the branch-and-bound solver is sufficiently efficient to serve as a good baseline. Moreover, our heuristics yield solutions close to the optimum. As a bonus, our algorithms allow us to compute first upper bounds for the clique-partitioned treewidth of real-world networks. A comparison to traditional treewidth indicates that clique-partitioned treewidth is a promising parameter for graphs with high clustering.

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Thomas Bläsius, Maximilian Katzmann, and Marcus Wilhelm. Partitioning the Bags of a Tree Decomposition into Cliques. In 21st International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 265, pp. 3:1-3:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{blasius_et_al:LIPIcs.SEA.2023.3,
  author =	{Bl\"{a}sius, Thomas and Katzmann, Maximilian and Wilhelm, Marcus},
  title =	{{Partitioning the Bags of a Tree Decomposition into Cliques}},
  booktitle =	{21st International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2023)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-279-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{265},
  editor =	{Georgiadis, Loukas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2023.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-183533},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2023.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: treewidth, weighted treewidth, algorithm engineering, cliques, clustering, complex networks}
}
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Fast Computation of Shortest Smooth Paths and Uniformly Bounded Stretch with Lazy RPHAST

Authors: Tim Zeitz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 233, 20th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2022)


Abstract
We study the shortest smooth path problem (SSPP), which is motivated by traffic-aware routing in road networks. The goal is to compute the fastest route according to the current traffic situation while avoiding undesired detours, such as briefly using a parking area to bypass a jammed highway. Detours are prevented by limiting the uniformly bounded stretch (UBS) with respect to a second weight function which disregards the traffic situation. The UBS is a path quality metric which measures the maximum relative length of detours on a path. In this paper, we settle the complexity of the SSPP and show that it is strongly NP-complete. We then present practical algorithms to solve the problem on continental-sized road networks both heuristically and exactly. A crucial building block of these algorithms is the UBS evaluation. We propose a novel algorithm to compute the UBS with only a few shortest path computations on typical paths. All our algorithms utilize Lazy RPHAST, a recently proposed technique to incrementally compute distances from many vertices towards a common target. An extensive evaluation shows that our algorithms outperform competing SSPP algorithms by up to two orders of magnitude and that our new UBS algorithm is the first to consistently compute exact UBS values in a matter of milliseconds.

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Tim Zeitz. Fast Computation of Shortest Smooth Paths and Uniformly Bounded Stretch with Lazy RPHAST. In 20th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 233, pp. 3:1-3:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{zeitz:LIPIcs.SEA.2022.3,
  author =	{Zeitz, Tim},
  title =	{{Fast Computation of Shortest Smooth Paths and Uniformly Bounded Stretch with Lazy RPHAST}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2022)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-251-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{233},
  editor =	{Schulz, Christian and U\c{c}ar, Bora},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2022.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-165378},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2022.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: realistic road networks, route planning, shortest paths, traffic-aware routing, live traffic, uniformly bounded stretch}
}
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A Branch-And-Bound Algorithm for Cluster Editing

Authors: Thomas Bläsius, Philipp Fischbeck, Lars Gottesbüren, Michael Hamann, Tobias Heuer, Jonas Spinner, Christopher Weyand, and Marcus Wilhelm

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 233, 20th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2022)


Abstract
The cluster editing problem asks to transform a given graph into a disjoint union of cliques by inserting and deleting as few edges as possible. We describe and evaluate an exact branch-and-bound algorithm for cluster editing. For this, we introduce new reduction rules and adapt existing ones. Moreover, we generalize a known packing technique to obtain lower bounds and experimentally show that it contributes significantly to the performance of the solver. Our experiments further evaluate the effectiveness of the different reduction rules and examine the effects of structural properties of the input graph on solver performance. Our solver won the exact track of the 2021 PACE challenge.

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Thomas Bläsius, Philipp Fischbeck, Lars Gottesbüren, Michael Hamann, Tobias Heuer, Jonas Spinner, Christopher Weyand, and Marcus Wilhelm. A Branch-And-Bound Algorithm for Cluster Editing. In 20th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 233, pp. 13:1-13:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{blasius_et_al:LIPIcs.SEA.2022.13,
  author =	{Bl\"{a}sius, Thomas and Fischbeck, Philipp and Gottesb\"{u}ren, Lars and Hamann, Michael and Heuer, Tobias and Spinner, Jonas and Weyand, Christopher and Wilhelm, Marcus},
  title =	{{A Branch-And-Bound Algorithm for Cluster Editing}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2022)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-251-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{233},
  editor =	{Schulz, Christian and U\c{c}ar, Bora},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2022.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-165473},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SEA.2022.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: cluster editing}
}
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PACE Solver Description
PACE Solver Description: The KaPoCE Exact Cluster Editing Algorithm

Authors: Thomas Bläsius, Philipp Fischbeck, Lars Gottesbüren, Michael Hamann, Tobias Heuer, Jonas Spinner, Christopher Weyand, and Marcus Wilhelm

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 214, 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021)


Abstract
The cluster editing problem is to transform an input graph into a cluster graph by performing a minimum number of edge editing operations. A cluster graph is a graph where each connected component is a clique. An edit operation can be either adding a new edge or removing an existing edge. In this write-up we outline the core techniques used in the exact cluster editing algorithm of the KaPoCE framework (contains also a heuristic solver), submitted to the exact track of the 2021 PACE challenge.

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Thomas Bläsius, Philipp Fischbeck, Lars Gottesbüren, Michael Hamann, Tobias Heuer, Jonas Spinner, Christopher Weyand, and Marcus Wilhelm. PACE Solver Description: The KaPoCE Exact Cluster Editing Algorithm. In 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 214, pp. 27:1-27:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{blasius_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.27,
  author =	{Bl\"{a}sius, Thomas and Fischbeck, Philipp and Gottesb\"{u}ren, Lars and Hamann, Michael and Heuer, Tobias and Spinner, Jonas and Weyand, Christopher and Wilhelm, Marcus},
  title =	{{PACE Solver Description: The KaPoCE Exact Cluster Editing Algorithm}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:3},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-216-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{214},
  editor =	{Golovach, Petr A. and Zehavi, Meirav},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154109},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: cluster editing}
}
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PACE Solver Description
PACE Solver Description: KaPoCE: A Heuristic Cluster Editing Algorithm

Authors: Thomas Bläsius, Philipp Fischbeck, Lars Gottesbüren, Michael Hamann, Tobias Heuer, Jonas Spinner, Christopher Weyand, and Marcus Wilhelm

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 214, 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021)


Abstract
The cluster editing problem is to transform an input graph into a cluster graph by performing a minimum number of edge editing operations. A cluster graph is a graph where each connected component is a clique. An edit operation can be either adding a new edge or removing an existing edge. In this write-up we outline the core techniques used in the heuristic cluster editing algorithm of the Karlsruhe and Potsdam Cluster Editing (KaPoCE) framework, submitted to the heuristic track of the 2021 PACE challenge.

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Thomas Bläsius, Philipp Fischbeck, Lars Gottesbüren, Michael Hamann, Tobias Heuer, Jonas Spinner, Christopher Weyand, and Marcus Wilhelm. PACE Solver Description: KaPoCE: A Heuristic Cluster Editing Algorithm. In 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 214, pp. 31:1-31:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{blasius_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.31,
  author =	{Bl\"{a}sius, Thomas and Fischbeck, Philipp and Gottesb\"{u}ren, Lars and Hamann, Michael and Heuer, Tobias and Spinner, Jonas and Weyand, Christopher and Wilhelm, Marcus},
  title =	{{PACE Solver Description: KaPoCE: A Heuristic Cluster Editing Algorithm}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:4},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-216-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{214},
  editor =	{Golovach, Petr A. and Zehavi, Meirav},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154147},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: cluster editing, local search, variable neighborhood search}
}
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Randomization as Mitigation of Directed Timing Inference Based Attacks on Time-Triggered Real-Time Systems with Task Replication

Authors: Kristin Krüger, Nils Vreman, Richard Pates, Martina Maggio, Marcus Völp, and Gerhard Fohler

Published in: LITES, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2021): Special Issue on Embedded System Security. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 7, Issue 1


Abstract
Time-triggered real-time systems achieve deterministic behavior using schedules that are constructed offline, based on scheduling constraints. Their deterministic behavior makes time-triggered systems suitable for usage in safety-critical environments, like avionics. However, this determinism also allows attackers to fine-tune attacks that can be carried out after studying the behavior of the system through side channels, targeting safety-critical victim tasks. Replication -- i.e., the execution of task variants across different cores -- is inherently able to tolerate both accidental and malicious faults (i.e. attacks) as long as these faults are independent of one another. Yet, targeted attacks on the timing behavior of tasks which utilize information gained about the system behavior violate the fault independence assumption fault tolerance is based on. This violation may give attackers the opportunity to compromise all replicas simultaneously, in particular if they can mount the attack from already compromised components. In this paper, we analyze vulnerabilities of time-triggered systems, focusing on safety-certified multicore real-time systems. We introduce two runtime mitigation strategies to withstand directed timing inference based attacks: (i) schedule randomization at slot level, and (ii) randomization within a set of offline constructed schedules. We evaluate these mitigation strategies with synthetic experiments and a real case study to show their effectiveness and practicality.

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Kristin Krüger, Nils Vreman, Richard Pates, Martina Maggio, Marcus Völp, and Gerhard Fohler. Randomization as Mitigation of Directed Timing Inference Based Attacks on Time-Triggered Real-Time Systems with Task Replication. In LITES, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2021): Special Issue on Embedded System Security. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 01:1-01:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@Article{kruger_et_al:LITES.7.1.1,
  author =	{Kr\"{u}ger, Kristin and Vreman, Nils and Pates, Richard and Maggio, Martina and V\"{o}lp, Marcus and Fohler, Gerhard},
  title =	{{Randomization as Mitigation of Directed Timing Inference Based Attacks on Time-Triggered Real-Time Systems with Task Replication}},
  journal =	{Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems},
  pages =	{01:1--01:29},
  ISSN =	{2199-2002},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{7},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LITES.7.1.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-192847},
  doi =		{10.4230/LITES.7.1.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: real-time systems, time-triggered systems, security}
}
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