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Berthold Vöcking Master Award 2023

Tom Biskup has received the Berthold Vöcking Master Award 2023 for his thesis “Invariant-based Strategy Synthesis for Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs”. The thesis addresses the problem of making provably good decisions in face of stochastic uncertainty which is key in, e.g., complex planning tasks. Tom’s solution draws on well-known principles from deductive program verification such as […]

Distinguished Artifact at OOPSLA 2023

The paper “A Deductive Verification Infrastructure for Probabilistic Programs” by Philipp Schröer, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph Matheja received a distinguished artifact award at OOPSLA 2023. The artifact consists of the deductive verifier Caesar together with a couple of benchmark examples. Caesar has a website at www.caesarverifier.org where the tool can be […]

Paper in FMSD Journal

The paper entitled “Parameter Synthesis for Markov Models” by Sebastian Junges, Erika Abraham, Christian Hensel, Nils Jansen, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Tim Quatmann, and Matthias Volk has been accepted for publication in the journal Formal Methods in System Design. The paper gives a comprehensive overview of several synthesis problems on parametric Markov chains and MDPs, presents algorithms […]

KPS 2023

MOVES has successfully organised the 22. Kolloquium Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung (KPS 2023). KPS is a traditional, bi-annual series of workshops for computer scientists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland working on the foundations, design, implementation, and usage of programming languages. This year’s edition featured 41 participants and a scientific programme with 31 presentations.

Paper in NeurIPS

The paper entitled “Provably Bounding Neural Network Preimages” by Christopher Brix, Suhas Kotha (CMU), Huan Zhang (UIUC), Zico Kolter (CMU), Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham (Google DeepMind) has been accepted for publication in the thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. The paper presents a way to compute bounds on the preimage of the output of a […]

Vacancies in Quantum Computing

Our group has to offer two PhD positions in Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Quantum Systems Integration at RWTH Aachen University. The first is about formal methods for supporting the development of zero-defect quantum programs, while the second aims to provide a systematic framework for compiling quantum software to computing architectures featuring qubit shuttling. For details, […]

Paper in JAIR

The paper entitled “Automatically Finding the Right Probabilities in Bayesian Networks” by Bahare Salmani and Joost-Pieter Katoen has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. The paper presents a way to use probabilistic model checking to perform inference on Bayesian networks (BNs) and find suitable parameter values in the case of […]

Paper at OOPSLA 2023

The paper entitled “A Deductive Verification Infrastructure for Probabilistic Programs” by Philipp Schröer, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Kaminski (Saarland University and UCL), Joost-Pieter Katoen and Christoph Matheja (TU Denmark) has been accepted for publication at OOPSLA 2023. The paper presents a quantitative program verification infrastructure for discrete probabilistic programs. This infrastructure can be viewed as the […]

Paper in FMSD Journal

The paper “Parameter Synthesis for Markov Models: Covering the Parameter Space” by Sebastian Junges (Nijmegen), Erika Abraham, Christian Hensel (Amazon), Nils Jansen (Nijmegen), Joost-Pieter Katoen, Tim Quatmann and Matthias Volk (Twente) has been accepted for publication in the journal Formal Methods in Systems Design. The paper (85 pages) presents various analysis algorithms for parametric discrete-time Marko […]

Jean-Claude Laprie Award

The Jean-Claude Laprie Award 2023 in Dependable Computing has been awarded to the paper “Model-checking algorithms for continuous-time Markov chains”, authored by Christel Baier, Boudewijn Haverkort, Holger Hermanns, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, and published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2003. It presents a unifying theory and algorithm to evaluate a wide variety of performance and […]