Sebastian Junges today received the Young Research Award, a prize for excellent young researchers (students and Ph.D. students) in the ICT field, awarded by the ICT Profile Area of RWTH Aachen University. The prize comes with a financial support for Sebastian’s career.

Thursday October 19, Christina Jansen successfully defended her PhD dissertation, entitled “Static Analysis of Pointer Programs: Linking Graph Grammars and Separation Logic” for a jury consisting of Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, NL), Gerhard Woeginger, Horst Lichter, Thomas Noll, and Joost-Pieter Katoen (all Aachen).  Christina’s dissertation is concerned with establishing a connection between data structure […]

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 proof rule to verify whether a probabilistic program (possibly including non-determinacy) almost surely terminates. The new proof rule enables to capture a larger class of […]

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 ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. The paper treats the semantic intricacies of introducing conditioning in a probabilistic programming language, its interference with non-determinacy, and divergence.

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 Prof. C.V. Ramamoorthy Best Paper Award at the 36th IEEE Int. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems in Hongkong. The paper presents automated techniques to find the probability distribution that […]

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 symposium will be a scientific event hosting a number of renowned speakers with whom Ed Brinksma has cooperated in the past. The day will culminate […]

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 accepted at SRDS 2017 in Hongkong. The paper presents automated techniques to find the probability distribution that achieves minimum average recovery time for randomized distributed self-stabilizing algorithms.

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 2017. The paper emerged from a co-operation with BMW and presents a model-based approach towards the safety analysis of vehicle guidance systems by comparing different mappings from functional […]

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 qualification of doctoral researchers with a focused research program and a structured training strategy. UnRAVeL aims to significantly advance probabilistic modelling and analysis for uncertainty […]

The paper “Fast Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis by Model Checking Techniques” by Matthias Volk, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. The paper presents a novel state-space generation technique for DFTs and combines this with a simple, though very effective, abstraction.