Two papers of the MOVES group have been accepted for the European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) 2026 to be held in Turin, Italy. The paper “Error Localization, Certificates, and Hints for Probabilistic Program Verification via Slicing” by Philipp Schröer, Darion Haase, and Joost-Pieter Katoen presents novel slicing concepts for probabilistic programs, their formalisation and experimental […]

The paper entitled ““Multiple Long-Run and omega-Regular Objectives in MDPs” by Julius Ide, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Hannah Mertens and Tim Quatmann has been accepted for TACAS 2026, to be held in Turin, Italy. The paper was one of the 56 (out of 190) papers that were accepted and presents presents algorithms for solving multi-objective problems in […]

The paper “Towards safe and robust neural network controllers at CERN: a review of methods and challenges” by Xaver Fink, Borja Fernandez Adiego (CERN), Brad Schofield (CERN) and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted at the 20th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS’25, https://proceedings.jacow.org/icalepcs2025/). The paper reviews the challenges of ensuring […]

The two papers “Verifying Sampling Algorithms via Distributional Invariants” by Kevin Batz (University College London), Joost-Pieter Katoen, Tobias Winkler and Daniel Zilken and “Generating Functions Meet Occupation Measures: Invariant Synthesis for Probabilistic Loops” by Kevin Batz (University College London), Adrian Gallus, Darion Haase, Benjamin Kaminski (Saarland University and University College London), Joost-Pieter Katoen, Lutz Klinkenberg […]

From November 18 to 20, 2025, the MISSION Project was represented at the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen, Germany—Europe’s largest B2B space event. Our project partners D3TN and Osmium each hosted a booth, showcasing their latest developments and highlighting MISSION’s contributions to the design of reliable and efficient next-generation spacecraft. Two short presentations about the MISSION Project were also given […]

The paper “Diagnostics in Probabilistic Program Verification” by Philipp Schröer, Darion Haase, and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted at the Dafny 2026 workshop. The paper focuses on effective user diagnostics generated during the deductive verification of probabilistic programs. It is based on providing different kinds of program slices for (1) error reporting, (2) proof simplification, […]

The paper “Search and Explore: Symbiotic Policy Synthesis in POMDPs” by Roman Andruishchenko (Brno University of Technology), Alexander Bork, Milan Češka (Brno University of Technology), Sebastian Junges (Radboud University), Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Filip Macák (Brno University of Technology) has been accepted in Formal Methods in System Design (Special Issue CAV 2023). The paper presents a […]

The paper “Weighted Automata for Exact Inference in Discrete Probabilistic Programs” by Dominik Geißler (TU Berlin) and Tobias Winkler has been accepted for presentation at ICTAC 2025. The paper explores the use of weighted automata for performing inference in probabilistic programs over integer variables.

The paper “Computing Expected Visiting Times and Stationary Distributions in Markov Chains: Fast and Accurate” by Hannah Mertens, Tim Quatmann, Tobias Winkler and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Automated Reasoning. This paper presents several numerical algorithms to compute expected visiting times (aka: occupation times) in DTMCs and CTMCs, and […]

The paper entitled “Generalized Parameter Lifting: Finer Abstractions for Parametric Markov Chains”by Linus Heck (RU Nijmegen), Tim Quatmann, Jip Spel, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Sebastian Junges (RU Nijmegen) has been accepted for the 23rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2025). This paper advances parameter lifting, a technique to check whether all […]