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Paper at POPL 2023

November 8, 2022

The paper entitled “A Calculus for Amortized Expected Runtimes” by Kevin Batz, Benjamin Kaminski (Saarland/UCL), Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja (DTU Lyngby) and Lena Verscht has been accepted

WhatsApp Research Award

October 11, 2022

Philipp Schroer and Joost-Pieter Katoen receive a Research Award from WhatsApp, through its parent company, Meta Platforms, Inc. for their research proposal “A Deductive Verification Infrastructure fo

Paper in Information & Computation

September 21, 2022

The paper entitled “Encoding inductive invariants as barrier certificates: synthesis via difference-of-convex programming” by [Qiuye Wang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Wang%2C+Q

Journal Paper in FMSD

August 23, 2022

The paper entitled “The Probabilistic Termination Tool Amber” by Ezio Bartocci, Marcel Moosbrugger, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Laura Kovacs has been accepted in a special issue devoted to the Formal Meth

Journal Paper in FMSD

August 21, 2022

The paper entitled “Stochastic Games with Lexicographic Objectives” by Krishnendu Chatterjee (IST), Joost-Pieter Katoen, Stephanie Mohr (TUM), Maximilain Weininger (TUM) and Tobias Winkler has been ac

Paper in Journal of the ACM

July 26, 2022

The paper entitled “Generative Datalog with Continuous Distributions” by Martin Grohe, Benjamin Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Peter Lindner has been accepted in Journal of the ACM. The paper defin

Paper at OOPSLA 2022

July 1, 2022

The paper entitled “Reasoning about Distributed Reconfigurable Systems” by Emma Ahrens (RWTH), Marius Bozga (Grenoble), Radu Iosif (Grenoble) and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for presentation

Paper at CONCUR 2022

June 26, 2022

The paper entitled “Towards Concurrent Quantitative Separation Logic” by Ira Fesefeldt, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Thomas Noll has been accepted at the 33rd International Conference on Concurrency Theory

Paper at FMICS 2022

June 24, 2022

The paper entitled “Analysing Capacity Bottlenecks in Rail Infrastructure by Episode Mining” by Th. Noll, J. Berger (both MOVES), W. Lenze, B. Kogel (both Institute of Transport Science, RWTH Aachen U

Paper at RAILWAYS 2022

June 24, 2022

The paper entitled “Identification of bottlenecks in rail infrastructure” by W. Lenze, B. Kogel (both Institute of Transport Science, RWTH Aachen University), S. Schotten, Th. Büker (both quattron man

Paper at QEST 2022

June 21, 2022

The paper entitled “POMDP Controllers With Optimal Budget” by Jip Spel, Svenja Stein and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Quantitative Eva

Paper at UAI 2022

May 17, 2022

The paper entitled “Inductive Synthesis of Finite-State Controllers for POMDPs” by Roman Andriushchenko_,_ Milan Ceska_,_ Sebastian Junges_,_ Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for the 38th Confere

Member AKW-NRW

May 12, 2022

The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts has elected Joost-Pieter Katoen as ordinary member. Katoen is the third computer scientist from RWTH Aachen University that has

Paper in STTT

May 12, 2022

The paper entitled “Scenario-Based Verification of Uncertain Parametric MDPs” by Thom Badings, Nils Jansen, and Sebastian Junges (all Radboud University Nijmegen, NL), Murat Cubuktepe and Ufuk Topcu (

CONCUR Test-of-Time Award

May 11, 2022

With great pleasure, we announce that the paper entitled “[Approximate symbolic model checking of continuous-time Markov chains](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/3-540-48320-9%5F12.pdf)”