Carsten Kern

I am a PhD student at the Software Modelling and Verification (MOVES) group at RWTH Aachen University. I am also involved in the DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) AlgoSyn as collegiate.

E-Mail:

Carsten Kern

Phone:

+49-241/80-21210

Fax:

+49-241/80-22217

Postal Address:

Carsten Kern

Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2

RWTH Aachen

D-52056 Aachen

Germany

Visiting Address:

Room 4206

Ahornstraße 55

D-52074 Aachen

Analysis of Message Sequence Charts
Algorithmic learning
Synthesis of design models
Live Sequence Charts

Projects

Smyle, supported by Procope (2008,2009) and Algosyn

Informatik Oberseminar	pdf
IJCAI 2009	pdf
CEE-SET 2008	n/a	(best presentation award)
CONCUR 2008	pdf
KPS 2007	n/a
Bad Honnef 2007	n/a
TACAS 2007	pdf
Tag der Informatik 2006	pdf
TACAS 2006	pdf
IFM 2005 Doctoral Symposium	pdf

(New)	libalf, an Automata Learning Framework library
	Smyle, a tool for synthesizing models by learning from examples
	MSCan, a tool for analyzing Message Sequence Charts (MSCs)

2011
	Benedikt Bollig, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker. SMA—The Smyle Modeling Approach. Proceedings 3rd IFIP TC2 Central and East European Conference on Software Engineering Techniques (CEE-SET 2008), Volume 4980 of LNCS, pages 103–117, , 2011.
2010
	Benedikt Bollig, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker. Learning Communicating Automata from MSCs. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 36(3), pages 390–408, 2010.
	Benedikt Bollig, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker. SMA: The Smyle Modeling Approach. Computing and Informatics 29, pages 45–72, 2010.
	Benedikt Bollig, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker, Daniel Neider, David Piegdon. libalf: the Automata Learning Framework. Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), Volume 6174 of LNCS, pages 360–364, Springer-Verlag, 2010.
2009
	Carsten Kern. Learning Communicating and Nondeterministic Automata. Phd Thesis at RWTH Aachen University, 2009.
	Carsten Kern. Learning Communicating and Nondeterministic Automata, Talk at RWTH Aachen University, 2009.
	Carsten Kern. Angluin-style learning of NFA, Talk at IJCAI 2009 (Pasadena, CA, USA), 2009.
	Benedikt Bollig, Peter Habermehl, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker. Angluin-Style Learning of NFA. Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), pages 1004–1009, AAAI Press, 2009.
2008
	Carsten Kern. SMA—The Smyle Modeling Approach, Talk at CEE-SET'08 (Brno, Czech Republic), 2008.
	Benedikt Bollig, Peter Habermehl, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker. Angluin-Style Learning of NFA. Technical report at Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification, ENS Cachan, France number LSV-08-28, 2008.
	Benedikt Bollig, Carsten Kern, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Martin Leucker. Smyle: a Tool for Synthesizing Distributed Models from Scenarios by Learning. 19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR'08), Volume 5201 of LNCS, pages 162–166, Springer, 2008.
	Carsten Kern. Smyle: A Tool for Synthesizing Distributed Models from Scenarios by Learning, Talk at CONCUR'08 (Toronto, Canadal), 2008.
2007
	Carsten Kern. Smyle - Synthesis of Design Models from Scenarios by Learning, Talk at Kolloquium Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung (Timmendorfer Strand), 2007.
	Carsten Kern. Synthesizing Design Models from Scenarios by Learning, Talk at Workshop Programmiersprachen und Rechenkonzepte (Bad Honnef), 2007.
	Benedikt Bollig, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker. Replaying Play in and Play out: Synthesis of Design Models from Scenarios by Learning. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'07), Volume 4424 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 435–450, Springer Verlag, 2007.
	Carsten Kern. Replaying Play in and Play out: Synthesis of Design Models from Scenarios by Learning, Talk at TACAS'07 (Braga, Portugal), 2007.
2006
	Carsten Kern. Synthesis of Design Models from Scenarios by Learning, Talk at RWTH Aachen University, 2006.
	Benedikt Bollig, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Carsten Kern, Martin Leucker. Replaying Play in and Play out: Synthesis of Design Models from Scenarios by Learning. Technical report at RWTH Aachen number AIB-2006-12, 2006.
	Benedikt Bollig, Carsten Kern, Markus Schlütter, Volker Stolz. MSCan - A Tool for Analyzing MSC Specifications. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS'06), Volume 3920 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 455–458, Springer, 2006.
	Carsten Kern. MSCan - A Tool for Analyzing MSC Specifications, Talk at TACAS 2006 (Wien), 2006.
2005
	Carsten Kern. Analysis and Imlementations of MSC Specifications. IFM2005 Doctoral Symposium on Integrated Formal Methods, Volume of Technische universiteit eindhoven: Computer Science-Report 05-29, pages 55–61, Judi Romijn, Graeme Smith, Jaco van de Pol, 2005.
	Carsten Kern. MSCan - Ein Tool zur Analyse von Message Sequence Charts. Diploma Thesis at Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Natural Sciences, RWTH Aachen University, 2005.

Seminar

Anwendung formaler Verifikationsmethoden auf eingebettete Systeme

Practical Course

Implementierung heuristischer Algorithmen für Brettspiele

Exercises

Berechenbarkeit und Komplexität

WS 08/09

Seminar

Timed Automata

WS 08/09

Practical Course

Implementierung heuristischer Algorithmen für Brettspiele

SS 08

Seminar (undergrad.)

Spezifikationsformalismen

SS 08

Exercises

Grundlagen von UML

WS 07/08

Seminar

UML Foundations

SS 07

Practical Course

Implementierung heuristischer Algorithmen für Brettspiele

SS 07

Exercises

Automaten, Sprachen und Komplexität

WS 06/07

Practical Course

Implementierung heuristischer Algorithmen für Brettspiele

SS 06

Seminar (undergrad.)

Fortgeschrittene Programmierkonzepte in Java, Haskell und Prolog

SS 06

Exercises

Programmierung

WS 05/06

Seminar

Global Computing

WS 05/06

Click here for my old personal page in the web

BSc/MSc/Diploma Topics
Teaching WS 2012/13
Hybrid Systems Group

We are looking for a HiWi for the Compiler Construction course. If you are interested, please contact Thomas Noll.

Joost-Pieter Katoen has been appointed as a member of the renowned Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe), a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy whose members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.

Vacancies for postdoctoral researchers in "Automated Analysis of Probabilistic Programs". Application deadline: August 15, 2013.

Joost-Pieter Katoen has been awarded a Distinguished Professorship from the RWTH Aachen University.

The Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'13) conference in Philadelphia has been very successful: Hongfei Fu received the best student paper award for his paper "Approximating acceptance probabilities of CTMC-paths on multi-clock deterministic timed automata". Besides, the paper by Ilya Tkachev, Alexandru Mereacre, Alessandro Abate and Joost-Pieter Katoen was ranked second in the overall best paper award selection.

Joost-Pieter Katoen has been elected as Steering Committee Chair of ETAPS (www.etaps.org), the largest conference on theory and practice of software in Europe. He is the first non-UK ETAPS SC chair since the conference was initiated in 1998. More information here.

The Alumni-Magazine of RWTH Aachen University contains an interview with our former PhD student and postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Tingting Han.

HiWi's wanted to work in a new European Space Agency project for enhancing state-of-the-art design and analysis tools (COMPASS) for the next generation European rockets. Need programming and model checking affinity. See here for details and contact.

We offer openings for several PhD candidates in the area of
"Model-Based Design and Analysis for Dependable Software Systems". Deadline for application: September 14, 2012. For further information click here.

The Theory of Hybrid Systems Group offers two jobs as student assistants within the CEBug project. For more information, look here.

Dino Distefano received the prestigious Roger Needham Award for his work on software verification. This award is for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher who has completed up to 10 years of post-doctoral research. Dr. Distefano was the first PhD student supervised by Joost-Pieter Katoen.

Marijn Jongerden received the German MMB (Messung, Modellierung und Bewertung von Rechensystemen) Award 2012 of the GI/ITG-Committee for Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems for his PhD-thesis on "Model-based energy analysis of battery powered systems". His work was supervised by Boudewijn Haverkort (Twente) and Joost-Pieter Katoen.

Our paper "Formal Correctness, Safety, Dependability and Performance Analysis of a Satellite" has been accepted to ICSE 2012 in the track SE in Practice (18% acceptance rate). The paper treats a new satellite from the European Space Agency that was modeled and analyzed with modern tools during the actual satellite design.

Joost-Pieter Katoen will act as DJ in the "Nacht der Professoren" in the Apollo bar and cinema.