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DFG Grant for ATTESTOR Project

September 27, 2017

The [German Research Foundation (DFG)](http://www.dfg.de/en/) has approved to extend the funding period of the [ATTESTOR](https://github.com/moves-rwth/attestor/) project for another two-year period.

Paper accepted at POPL 2018

September 26, 2017

The paper entitled “A new proof rule for almost-sure termination” by Annabelle McIver, Carroll Morgan, Benjamin Kaminski, and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for POPL 2018\. The paper presents a

NII Shonan Seminar

September 14, 2017

The MOVES group is co-organising a seminar on [_Analysis and Verification of Pointer Programs_](http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/seminar/100/), which will be held from October 2 to 5, 2017, as an [NII Shonan M

Best Paper Award at SRDS 2017

September 7, 2017

The paper entitled “Automated Fine Tuning of Probabilistic Self-Stabilizing Algorithms” by Saba Aflaki, Matthias Volk, Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Arne Storjohann has been selected as

Paper accepted in ACM TOPLAS

September 7, 2017

The paper “Conditioning in Probabilistic Programming” by Federico Olmedo, Friedrich Gretz, Nils Jansen, Benjamin L. Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Annabelle McIver has been accepted for the journal

Symposium ModelEd, TestEd, TrustEd

September 2, 2017

In honour of the 60th birthday of Ed Brinksma, we co-organize the symposium “ModelEd, TestEd, TrustEd” on 18 October 2017, in the Amphitheatre (Vrijhof), University of Twente, the Netherlands. The sy

Paper Accepted at CDC 2017

July 13, 2017

The paper entitled “Motion Planning under Partial Observability using Game-Based Abstraction” by Leonore Winterer, Sebastian Junges, Ralf Wimmer, Nils Jansen, Ufuk Topcu, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Bern

Paper accepted at SafeComp 2017

June 26, 2017

The paper entitled “Model-Based Safety Analysis of Vehicle Guidance Systems” by Majdi Ghadhab, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Matthias Kuntz and Matthias Volk, has been accepted at SafeComp 20

Paper accepted at SRDS 2017

June 26, 2017

The paper entitled “Automated Fine Tuning of Probabilistic Self-Stabilizing Algorithms” by Saba Aflaki, Matthias Volk, Borzoo Bonakdarpour[](http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~borzoo), Joost-Pieter Katoen an

12 vacant Ph.D. positions

June 14, 2017

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly qualified doctoral researchers. 12 positions are available within the Research Training Group (RTG) UnRAVeL. The key emphasis of an RTG is on the qualificati

5 million euros for RTG UnRAVeL

May 15, 2017

The German Research Council (DFG) has granted our proposal to launch a Research Training Group on “Uncertainty and Randomness in Algorithms, Verification and Logic” (UnRAVeL). It funds 15 Ph.D. positi

Two CAV’17 papers accepted

April 21, 2017

The papers “A Storm is Coming: A Modern Probabilistic Model Checker” by Christian Dehnert, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Matthias Volk and “Markov Automata with Multiple Objectives” by Tim

Honorary Doctorate for Joost-Pieter Katoen

April 10, 2017

The MOVES group proudly announces that Professor Joost-Pieter Katoen has received a **Honorary Doctorate** from [Aalborg University](http://www.cs.aau.dk/), Denmark. He was awarded for his distinguish