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New Job Opportunities as Student Assistant

February 12, 2020

As Prof. Katoen has become the head of the ICT Profilearea, we are looking for two new student assistants. Further information can be seen in the following document: [Job Information](https://moves.rw

Paper in Acta Informatica

February 10, 2020

The paper “Indecision and Delays are the Parents of Failure — Taming them Algorithmically by Synthesizing Delay-Resilient Control” by Mingshuai Chen (RWTH), Martin Fränzle, Yangjia Li, Peter N. Mosaad

Four Papers at TACAS 2020

December 23, 2019

Four papers have been accepted to TACAS 2020 in Dublin in which our group is involved: “Learning One-Clock Timed Automata” by Jie An, Mingshuai Chen, Bohua Zhan, Naijun Zhan, and Miaomiao Zhang, an

EAPLS PhD Dissertation Award 2018

December 12, 2019

We are excited to announce that Christian Hensel has won the EAPLS (European Association of Programming Language and Systems) PhD Dissertation Award 2018\. His dissertation on “The Probabilistic Model

Incubator Grant for COMPASS

October 25, 2019

[Anzen Engineering](https://www.anzenengineering.com) has been granted an ESA-BIC Incubator Grant to further develop the [COMPASS 3.0 tool](http://www.compass-toolset.org/) that has been developed by

Paper in STTT

October 24, 2019

The paper entitled “_IC3 Software Model Checking_” by Tim Lange, Martin R. Neuhäußer (Siemens AG), Thomas Noll, and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for the [International Journal on Software Too

DFG Project Granted

October 21, 2019

The DFG has informed us that the project proposal “Parameter Synthesis for Reliable, Performant and Efficient Wireless Network Protocols” has been granted. The project aims at developing and using par

Paper at POPL 2020

October 9, 2019

The paper entitled “Aiming Low Is Harder: Induction for Lower Bounds in Probabilistic Program Verification” by Marcel Hark, Jürgen Giesl, Benjamin Kaminski and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted fo

Paper in LNCS 10,000

October 8, 2019

The paper entitled “[The 10,000 Facets of MDP Model Checking](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-91908-9%5F21.pdf)” by Christel Baier, Holger Hermanns and Joost-Pieter Katoen ju

Paper at CSL 2020

September 30, 2019

The paper entitled “Separation and Renaming in Nominal Sets” by Joshua Moerman and Jurriaan Rot (UCL, London and Radboud University, the Netherlands) has been accepted for the 28th edition in the seri

Paper in Festschrift Scott Smolka

September 29, 2019

The paper “Model Checking Revamped: On the Automated Synthesis of Markov Chains” by [Milan Ceska](https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Ceska:Milan), [Christian Dehnert](https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/h

Paper in Information & Computation

September 29, 2019

The paper entitled “Deciding probabilistic simulation between probabilistic pushdown automata and finite-state systems” by [Mingzhang Huang](https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Huang:Mingzhang), [Hong

Paper at PRDC 2019

September 16, 2019

The paper “Synergizing Reliability Modeling Languages: BDMPs Without Repairs and DFTs” by Shahid Khan, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Matthias Volk, and Marc Bouissou (EDF) has been accepted at the 24th IEEE Pa

Best Paper Award at FMICS 2019

August 30, 2019

The paper “A DFT Modeling Approach for Infrastructure Reliability Analysis of Railway Station Areas” by Matthias Volk, Norman Weik, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Nils Nießen has been awarded the best paper

Paper at SEFM 2019

June 26, 2019

The paper “Formal Verification of Rewriting Rules for Dynamic Fault Trees” by Yassmeen Elderhalli (Concordia Univ.), Matthias Volk, Osman Hasan (Concordia), Joost-Pieter Katoen and Sofiene Tahar (Conc