Edmund Clarke教授是美国CMU大学教授，ACM2007年图灵奖得主，美国工程院院士，模型检测技术的奠基者之一。

Statistical Model Checking for Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract:  Statistical Model Checking is useful in situations where it is either inconvenient or impossible to build a concise representation of the global transition relation.  This happens frequently with cyber-physical systems:  Two examples are verifying Stateflow-Simulink models and in reasoning about biochemical reactions in Systems Biology.  The main problem with Statistical Model Checking is caused by rare events.  We describe how Statistical Model Checking works and demonstrate the problem with rare events.  We then describe how Importance Sampling with the Cross-Entropy Technique can be used to address this problem.

Biography: Edmund M. Clarke received a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 1967, an M.A. degree in mathematics from Duke University, Durham NC, in 1968, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University, Ithaca NY, in 1976. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught in the Department of Computer Science, Duke University, for two years. In 1978 he moved to Harvard University, Cambridge, MA where he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Division of Applied Sciences. He left Harvard in 1982 to join the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He was appointed Full Professor in 1989. In 1995 he became the first recipient of the FORE Systems Professorship, an endowed chair in the School of Computer Science. He was named a University Professor in 2008.
Dr. Clarke's interests include software and hardware verification and automatic theorem proving. In his Ph.D. thesis he proved that certain programming language control structures did not have good Hoare style proof systems. In 1981 he and his Ph.D. student Allen Emerson first proposed the use of Model Checking as a verification technique for finite state concurrent systems. His research group pioneered the use of Model Checking for hardware verification. Symbolic Model Checking using BDDs was also developed by his group. This important technique was the subject of Kenneth McMillan's Ph.D. thesis, which received an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In addition, his research group developed the first parallel resolution theorem prover (Parthenon) and the first theorem prover to be based on a symbolic computation system (Analytica).
Dr. Clarke has served on the editorial boards of Distributed Computing, Logic and Computation, and IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering. He is the former editor-in-chief of Formal Methods in Systems Design. He is on the organizing committee of Logic in Computer Science (LICS) and on the steering committee of Computer-Aided Verification (CAV). He received a Technical Excellence Award with Randy Bryant and Ken McMillan from the Semiconductor Research Corporation in 1995 for his work on formal verification techniques. He was a co-winner with Randy Bryant, Allen Emerson, and Kenneth McMillan of the ACM Kanellakis Award in 1998 for the development of Symbolic Model Checking. In 1999 he received an Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Research from the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department. In 2004 he received the IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for significant and pioneering contributions to formal verification of hardware and software systems, and for the profound impact these contributions have had on the electronics industry. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for contributions to the formal verification of hardware and software correctness. He was a recipient with Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis of the 2007 ACM Turing Award for his role in developing Model Checking into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries. In 2008 he received the CADE Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning in recognition of his role in the invention of Model Checking and his sustained leadership in the area for more than two decades. In 2011 He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences which includes distinguished leaders in the sciences, social sciences, the humanities, the arts, as well as business and public affairs. Dr. Clarke is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa.