- joshua at cs.rwth-aachen.de
- Address
- Room 4210
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen - Phone
- +49 241 80 21203
- homepage
- https://joshuamoerman.nl
I have moved to the Open Universiteit as of 01.05.2021, and so this page won’t be updated anymore. Please visit my personal website. You can also find me on DBLP, Google Scholar, and ORCID.
I was Post-Doc at this chair since April 2019, where I was working on probabilistic programs as a member of the FRAPPANT project.
Research
Formerly, I was a PhD student at the Radboud University in Nijmegen at the Software Science department. Under supervision of Frits Vaandrager, Bas Terwijn, and Alexandra Silva I worked on nominal techniques and black box testing for automata learning.
My research interests also include formal verification, PAC learning, coalgebraic methods, functional programming, black-box testing theory, and category theory.
Bachelor or Master Theses
If you are looking for doing in theses in our group, then I would be happy to supervise you. Here are some ideas for theses. Other topics are of course also possible. Just come by or send an email and then we can talk about it!
- Learning parametric Markov chains. Imagine, there is some parametric Markov chain, but we have no description of it. Can we infer the structure by just looking at its behaviour? Theoretically, this should be learnable to some extend, but there are no implementations. Topics: theory of weighted automata, probability theory, automata learning, a bit of implementation. Some preliminary (and vague) ideas can be found on my blog.
Duality in automata learning.Duality is ubiquitous in computer science. It gives a correspondence between state transformers and predicate transformer, between forward and backward reasoning in Bayesian networks, between modal logic and state spaces, and so on. Can we leverage this for automata learning? Topics: automata learning, duality theory, a bit of implementationLearning MDPs with SMT solving.Can we infer the structure of an Markov decision process (up to equivalence) by only observing its behaviour? Topics: probability theory, SMT solving, implementation.What is the probability of finding a counterexample?Black box testing of a finite state machine is the problem of checking equivalence between a specification and implementation by tests only. Surprisingly, this can be done in a sound and complete way (under some assumption), making it a formal method. Can we give quantitative measures to compare different test generation methods? Topics: Black box testing, state machines, probability theory, implementation.Gradient Descent for Parametric Markov Chains.Can gradient descent (or another iterative method) be useful for parameter synthesis? I think so, but we will have to implement it and benchmark it. Topics: Markov chains, model checking, implementation. This could be supervised together with Jip Spel. I have written some preliminary (and vague) theory on my blog.
See also this list.
Publications (in RWTH UB)
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Joshua Moerman, . Residuality and Learning for Nondeterministic Nominal Automata, Logical methods in computer science 18 (1), pages 29, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, Technical University of Braunschweig, 2022. |
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Linus Heck, Jip Josephine Spel, , Joshua Moerman, Joost-Pieter Katoen. Gradient-Descent for Randomized Controllers Under Partial Observability, 23. International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2022), Volume 13182, Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues of LNCS, 127-150, Springer, 2022. |
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Lutz Klinkenberg, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Joshua Moerman, Tobias Winkler. Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs, 30. International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2020), Volume 12561 of Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, 231-248, Springer, 2021. |
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, , Joshua Moerman. Orbit-Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces and Weighted Register Automata, 16 Seiten, 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02438 |
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Joshua Moerman, . Residuality and Learning for Nondeterministic Nominal Automata, 27 Seiten, 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11666v4 |
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, , Joshua Moerman. Orbit-Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces and Weighted Register Automata, 36. Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), ACM Conferences, [1]-13, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. |
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Joshua Moerman, . Separation and Renaming in Nominal Sets, 28. EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2020), Volume 152 of Leibniz international proceedings in informatics, 31:1-31:17, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, January, 2020. |
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Joshua Moerman, Matteo Sammartino. Residual Nominal Automata, 31. International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020), Volume 171 of Leibniz international proceedings in informatics, 44:1-44:21, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, August, 2020. |
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Lutz Klinkenberg, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Joshua Moerman, Tobias Winkler. Generating Functions for Probabilistic Programs, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06327 |
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Joshua Moerman, . Residual Nominal Automata, 25 Seiten, 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11666 |
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Joshua Moerman, . Separation and Renaming in Nominal Sets, 23 Seiten, 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00763 |