Dynamic Observers for the Synthesis of Opaque Systems. Cassez, F., Dubreil, J., & Marchand, H. In Liu, Z. & Ravn, A. P., editors, Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, 7th International Symposium, ATVA 2009, Macao, China, October 14-16, 2009. Proceedings, volume 5799, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 352–367, 2009. Springer.
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In this paper, we address the problem of synthesizing \emphopaque systems by selecting the set of observable events. We first investigate the case of \emphstatic observability where the set of observable events is fixed a priori. In this context, we show that checking whether a system is opaque and computing an optimal static observer ensuring opacity are both PSPACE-complete problems. Next, we introduce \emphdynamic partial observability where the set of observable events can change over time. We show how to check that a system is opaque ≀t a dynamic observer and also address the corresponding synthesis problem: given a system $G$ and secret states $S$, compute the set of dynamic observers under which $S$ is opaque. Our main result is that the synthesis problem can be solved in EXPTIME.

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