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Paper in FAOC Journal

March 9, 2021

The paper entitled “Counterexample-Guided Inductive Synthesis for Probabilistic Systems” by Milan Ceska, Christian Hensel, Sebastian Junges and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for the Formal Asp

Storm runner-up in RWTH Innovation Award 2020

March 5, 2021

The Storm model checker received the second place at the RWTH Innovation Award 2020\. An official announcement can be found [here](https://idw-online.de/de/news764403) whereas a youtube video of the t

Paper in JCSS Journal

March 2, 2021

The paper entitled “The Complexity of Reachability in Parametric Markov Decision Processes” by Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Guillermo Perez, and Tobias Winkler is accepted for publication in

Paper at NFM2021

February 25, 2021

The paper “Scalable Reliability Analysis by Lazy Verification” by Shahid Khan, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Matthias Volk and Marc Bouissou has been accepted for the 13th NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Symposium.

Paper in FMSD journal

February 14, 2021

The paper “Markov Automata with Multiple Objectives” by Tim Quatmann, Sebastian Junges and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for publication in Formal Methods in System Design, a special issue for

Katoen member KHMW

February 10, 2021

Joost-Pieter Katoen has been elected as new member of the [Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijke%5FHollandsche%5FMaatschappij%5Fder%5FWetenschappe

Katoen named ACM Fellow

January 14, 2021

Prof. Joost-Pieter Katoen has been named [ACM Fellow 2020 ](https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/january/fellows-2020)for his contributions to model checking of software and probabilistic systems.

5 Gold medals at RERS 2020

January 13, 2021

We are happy to announce that our team ([Joshua Moerman](https://moves.rwth-aachen.de/people/moerman/) and [Jana Berger](https://moves.rwth-aachen.de/people/berger/)) has won [5 gold medals](http://ww

Three papers at TACAS 2021

January 4, 2021

We are delighted to inform you that three MOVES papers have been accepted at TACAS 2021: “Inductive Synthesis for Probabilistic Programs Reaches New Horizons” by Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Ceska, S

Paper at ESOP 2021

December 20, 2020

The paper entitled “Automated Termination Analysis of Polynomial Probabilistic Programs ” by Marcel Moosbrugger, Ezio Bartocci, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Laura Kovács has been accepted for the European

Distinguished POPL 2021 Paper Award

December 18, 2020

We are happy to announce that the paper A _Pre-Expectation Calculus for Probabilistic Sensitivity_ by Alejandro Aguirre, Gilles Barthe, Justin Hsu, Benjamin Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph

Job Opportunities as Student Assistants

December 18, 2020

We are seeking two talented student assistants to support the digitalisation of online bridging courses in Theoretical Computer Science. More concretely, the following tasks need to be performed: * t

LOPSTR 2020 Best Paper Award

December 18, 2020

We are happy to announce that the paper “Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs” by Lutz Klinkenberg, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Joshua Moerman and Tobias Wink

Thesis Awards

December 4, 2020

During the virtual _[Tag der Informatik](https://tdi2020.expo-ip.com/stand/1115)_, two students of our group have been awarded for their final theses. Florian Keßler received the _CS Department Award_

Book Foundations of Probabilistic Programming Published

November 29, 2020

The book “Foundations of Probabilistic Programming”, edited by Gilles Barthe, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Alexandra Silva has been published under gold open access. It contains survey chapters of various