On the use of proof-of-work in permissioned blockchains: Security and fairness

I Malakhov, A Marin, S Rossi, D Smuseva - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In permissioned blockchains, a set of identifiable miners validates transactions and creates
new blocks. In scholarship, the proposed solution for the consensus protocol is usually …

[PDF][PDF] Reverse Bisimilarity vs. Forward Bisimilarity.

M Bernardo, S Rossi - FoSSaCS, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Reversibility is the capability of a system of undoing its own actions starting from the last
performed one, in such a way that a past consistent state is reached. This is not trivial for …

Verifier's dilemma in ethereum blockchain: A quantitative analysis

D Smuseva, I Malakhov, A Marin, A van Moorsel… - … Evaluation of Systems, 2022 - Springer
A blockchain is an immutable ledger driven by a distributed consensus protocol. In public
blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum consensus is established through a …

[HTML][HTML] Lumping-based equivalences in Markovian automata: Algorithms and applications to product-form analyses

G Alzetta, A Marin, C Piazza, S Rossi - Information and Computation, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we consider two relations over stochastic automata, named lumpable
bisimulation and exact equivalence, that induce a strong and an exact lumping, respectively …

Causal Reversibility Implies Time Reversibility

M Bernardo, I Lanese, A Marin, CA Mezzina… - … Evaluation of Systems, 2023 - Springer
Several notions of reversibility exist in the literature. On the one hand, causal reversibility
establishes that an action can be undone provided that all of its consequences have been …

Proportional lumpability and proportional bisimilarity

A Marin, C Piazza, S Rossi - Acta Informatica, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we deal with the lumpability approach to cope with the state space explosion
problem inherent to the computation of the stationary performance indices of large stochastic …

Power control in saturated fork-join queueing systems

A Marin, S Rossi - Performance Evaluation, 2017 - Elsevier
The analysis of fork-join queueing systems has played an important role for the performance
evaluation of distributed systems where parallel computations associated with the same job …

Persistent stochastic non-interference

J Hillston, A Marin, C Piazza… - Fundamenta …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
In this paper, we study an information flow security property for systems specified as terms of
a quantitative Markovian process algebra, namely the Performance Evaluation Process …

Proportional lumpability

A Marin, C Piazza, S Rossi - Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed …, 2019 - Springer
We deal with the lumpability approach to cope with the state space explosion problem
inherent to the computation of the performance indices of large stochastic models using a …

Reasoning about proportional lumpability

C Piazza, S Rossi - International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper we reason about the notion of proportional lumpability, that generalizes the
original definition of lumpability to cope with the state space explosion problem inherent to …