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EATCS Best Paper Award

July 2, 2026

The paper [“Approximately Compatible Graph Predicates: Verifying Program Termination using Graph Grammars” ](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-29730-3%5F7)by Alexander Ferber, Ira Fesefeldt, [Thomas N

CAV 2027 in Amsterdam

June 11, 2026

We are pleased to announce that the MOVES group at RWTH Aachen University, together with the University of Twente, will organize CAV 2027, the _39th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verifica

Best paper award at FM 2026

June 5, 2026

The paper “Verifying Sampling Algorithms via Distributional Invariants” by Daniel Zilken, Kevin Batz, Joost-Pueter Katoen and Tobias Winkler has won the Best Paper Award at the Formal Methods Symposiu

Distinguished Artefact@ETAPS26

May 4, 2026

The paper “Generating Functions Meet Occupation Measures: Invariant Synthesis for Probabilistic Loops” by Darion Haase, Kevin Batz, Adrian Gallus, Benjamin Kaminski (Saarland Univ.), Joost-Pieter Kato

Paper in Information and Computation

May 4, 2026

The paper entitled “On Termination of Polynomial Programs with Equality Conditions” by Yangjia Li (ISCAS), Mingshuai Chen (Zhejiang Univ.), Liangran Zhao (Peking Univ.), Naijun Zhan (Peking Univ.), Hu

Paper at CAV 2026

April 21, 2026

The research paper “Fast Computation of Conditional Probabilities in MDPs and Markov Chain Families” by Sebastian Junges, Luko van der Maas (both Radboud University, Nijmegen), Milan Ceska, Filip Macá

Tool Paper at CAV 2026

April 20, 2026

The tool paper “Caesar: A Deductive Verifier for Probabilistic Programs” by Philipp Schröer, Kevin Batz, Umut Yiğit Dural, Darion Haase, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Christoph Ma

Paper at RExAI 2026

April 7, 2026

The paper entitled “Verifying STL Properties of Sliding-Window Neural Classifiers under Adversarial Perturbations” by Xaver Fink (CERN+RWTH), Borja Adiego Fernandez (CERN) and Joost-Pieter Katoen has

Paper at NFM 2026

March 15, 2026

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Storm Tutorial at FM 2026

March 10, 2026

The tutorial “Probabilistic Model Checking Taken by Storm” by Matthias Volk (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology), Linus Heck, Sebastian Junges (Radboud University), Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Tim Quatmann ha

MOVES Söllerhaus Workshop

February 12, 2026

From January 23 to 30, the MOVES Group organised the **10th edition** of its famous **Söllerhaus Workshop** at Hirschegg in Kleinwalsertal, Austria. Again, it was a very successful event, full of rese

Paper at AAMAS 2026

February 12, 2026

The paper entitled “Verification of Robust Multi-Agent Systems” by Raphael Berthon, Munyque Myttelmann, (CNRS, LIPN, Sorbonne Paris North University) Joost-Pieter Katoen and Nello Morano (University o

1-2-3 Papers at Formal Methods 2026

February 8, 2026

The following three papers have been accepted for the 27th Symposium on Formal Methods (2026) in Tokyo, Japan: (1) Tools and Algorithms for Sound Multi-Objective Probabilistic Model Checking by Arnd

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January 1, 2026

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Paper at TACAS 2026

December 22, 2025

The paper entitled “Multiple Long-Run and omega-Regular Objectives in MDPs” by Julius Ide, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Hannah Mertens and Tim Quatmann has been accepted for TACAS 2026, to be held in Turin, I