scholarly journals Parallelizing random-walk based model checking

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
Thang Hoai Bui

In model checking, a formal methods technique to verify a system with some desired properties, the guidance techniques have been employed a long time ago in driving the verification into area of `error` in the state space. Another technique is to choose the next state to be explored in a walk randomly to avoid the `wrong` guidance. When the latter is a nonexhaustive technique in the sense that only a manageable number of walks are carried out before the search is terminated, it does scale well. In enhancing the technique to use recently powerful parallel/multi-core systems, research on parallelizing the algorithm shall be carried out. In this work, we propose a method that parallelizes the random-walk algorithm. It also increases the completeness of the non-exhaustive algorithm. The experimentation has shown the great improvement of the proposed algorithm compares to the original once.

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 753-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.P. Onoma ◽  
S. Ruan ◽  
S. Thureau ◽  
L. Nkhali ◽  
R. Modzelewski ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 06 (06) ◽  
pp. 1350043 ◽  
Author(s):  
LI GUO ◽  
YUNTING ZHANG ◽  
ZEWEI ZHANG ◽  
DONGYUE LI ◽  
YING LI

In this paper, we proposed a semi-automatic technique with a marker indicating the target to locate and segment nodules. For the lung nodule detection, we develop a Gabor texture feature by FCM (Fuzzy C Means) segmentation. Given a marker indicating a rough location of the nodules, a decision process is followed by applying an ellipse fitting algorithm. From the ellipse mask, the foreground and background seeds for the random walk segmentation can be automatically obtained. Finally, the edge of the nodules is obtained by the random walk algorithm. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are evaluated with the various types of the nodules to identify the edges, so that it can be used to locate the nodule edge and its growth rate.


2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noureddine Bouhmala ◽  
Ole-Christoffer Granmo

The graph coloring problem (GCP) is a widely studied combinatorial optimization problem due to its numerous applications in many areas, including time tabling, frequency assignment, and register allocation. The need for more efficient algorithms has led to the development of several GC solvers. In this paper, the authors introduce a team of Finite Learning Automata, combined with the random walk algorithm, using Boolean satisfiability encoding for the GCP. The authors present an experimental analysis of the new algorithm’s performance compared to the random walk technique, using a benchmark set containing SAT-encoding graph coloring test sets.


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