MoDeST/MoToR Publications

2007
	Henrik Bohnenkamp, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen. Motor: The MoDeST Tool Environment. 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 500–504, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
2006
	Henrik Bohnenkamp, Pedro R. D'Argenio, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen. MoDeST: A compositional modeling formalism for hard and softly timed systems. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 32(10), pages 812–830, 2006.
	Angelika Mader, Henrik Bohnenkamp, Yaroslav S. Usenko, David N. Jansen, Johann Hurink, Holger Hermanns. Synthesis and Stochastic Assessment of Cost-Optimal Schedules. Technical report at University of Twente number 06-14, 2006.
2005
	Henrik Bohnenkamp, Johan Gorter, Jarno Guidi, Joost-Pieter Katoen. Are you still there? — A Lightweight Algorithm To Monitor Node Presence in Self-Configuring Networks. , pages 704–709, , 2005.
	Pedro R. D'Argenio, Joost-Pieter Katoen. A theory of stochastic systems. Part I: Stochastic automata. Information and Computation 203(1), pages 1–38, 2005.
	Pedro R. D'Argenio, Joost-Pieter Katoen. A theory of stochastic systems. Part II: Process algebra. Information and Computation 203(1), pages 39–74, 2005.
2004
	Henrik Bohnenkamp, Holger Hermanns, Ric Klaren, Angelika Mader, Yaroslav Usenko. Synthesis and stochastic assessment of schedules for lacquer production. Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2004), pages 28–37, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004.
	Joost-Pieter Katoen, Henrik Bohnenkamp, Ric Klaren, Holger Hermanns. Embedded software analysis with MOTOR. In , Formal Methods for the Design of Real-Time Systems (SFM-RT 2004), pages 268–294, Volume 3185 of LNCS, 2004.
2003
	Henrik Bohnenkamp, Tod Courtney, David Daly, Salem Derisavi, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Vinh Vi Lam, Bill Sanders. On integrating the Möbius and MoDeST modeling tools. Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pages 671, IEEE, 2003.
	Henrik Bohnenkamp, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Ric Klaren. The MoDeST Modeling Tool and its implementation. Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools (TOOLS 2003), Volume 2794 of LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
2001
	Pedro R. D'Argenio, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Ric Klaren. MoDeST: A Modelling language for Stochastic Timed systems. Process Algebra and Probabilistic Methods (PAPM-Probmiv), pages 87–104, LNCS vol. 2165, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
2000
	Pedro R. D'Argenio. A compositional Translation of Stochastic Automata into Timed Automata. Technical report at CTIT, University of Twente number TR-CTIT-00-08, 2000.
1999
	Pedro R. D'Argenio. Algebras and Automata for Timed and Stochastic Systems. Phd Thesis at Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, 1999.

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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.