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Two papers at QEST 2018

June 27, 2018

The paper “Parameter-Independent Strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs” by Sebastian Arming, Ezio Bartocci, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Ana Sokolova, and Joost-Pieter Katoen and the paper Model Checking For Safe

Paper at SUM 2018

June 14, 2018

The paper entitled “Rule-based Conditioning of Probabilistic Data Integration” by Maurice van Keulen, Benjamin Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Christoph Matheja has been accepted for the 12th Int.

Positions for PhDs and postdocs

May 18, 2018

We solicit applications for PhD studentships and postdoctoral research positions in the area of verifying probabilistic programs. The positions are funded by the recently acquired ERC Advanced Gran

Paper at UAI 2018

May 15, 2018

The paper entitled “Finite-State Controllers of POMDPs using Parameter Synthesis” by Sebastian Junges, Nils Jansen, Ralf Wimmer, Tim Quatmann, Leonore Winterer, Bernd Becker, and Joost-Pieter Katoen h

Paper at SPIN 2018 Symposium

April 29, 2018

The paper entitled “Improving Generalization in Software IC3” by Tim Lange, Frederick Prinz, Martin R. Neuhäußer (Siemens), Thomas Noll and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for the 25th Internati

Paper in Acta Informatica

April 20, 2018

The paper entitled “On the Hardness of Analyzing Probabilistic Programs” by Benjamin Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Christoph Matheja has been accepted for publication in the journal Acta Informat

Paper in Journal of the ACM

April 13, 2018

The paper entitled “Weakest Precondition Reasoning for Expected Runtimes of Randomized Algorithms” by Benjamin Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja and Federico Olmedo has been accepted fo

Paper accepted at SEFM 2018

April 9, 2018

The paper “_Graph-Based Shape Analysis Beyond Context-Freeness_” by Hannah Arndt, Christina Jansen, Christoph Matheja and Thomas Noll has been accepted for publication at the [_16th International Conf

Two papers accepted at FM 2018

April 9, 2018

The papers “Verifying Auto-Generated C Code from Simulink” by Philipp Berger, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Erika Ábrahám, Md Tawhid Bin Waez and Thomas Rambow, as well as the paper “Formal Verification of Aut

Katoen receives ERC Advanced Grant

April 6, 2018

Joost-Pieter Katoen is awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. It will allow to fund a project on formal reasoning techniques for probabilistic programs over a p

Four Papers at CAV 2018

April 1, 2018

**Four** papers with involvement of the MOVES group have been accepted at CAV 2018: * _“Sound Value Iteration”_ by Tim Quatmann and Joost-Pieter Katoen * _“Let this Graph be your Witness! An Attestor

Paper accepted at DSN 2018

March 4, 2018

The paper “Branching Bisimulation and Concurrent Object Verification” by Xiaoxiao Yang, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Huimin Lin, Gaoang Liu, and Hao Wu has been accepted for the 48th IEEE/IFIP International C

Paper accepted at Petri Nets 2018

March 1, 2018

The paper “One Nets Fits All — A unifying semantics of Dynamic Fault Trees using GSPNs” by Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Marielle Stoelinga and Matthias Volk has been accepted for Petri Nets

Paper accepted at TACAS 2018

December 22, 2017

The paper “Multi-Cost Bounded Reachability in MDPs” by Arnd Hartmanns, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Tim Quatmann has been accepted for TACAS 2018\. The paper presents an efficient algorit

Paper accepted at ESOP 2018

December 21, 2017

The paper “How long, O Bayesian network, will I sample thee?” by Kevin Batz, [Benjamin Kaminski](https://moves.rwth-aachen.de/people/kaminski/), [Joost-Pieter Katoen](https://moves.rwth-aachen.de/peop