The VERSEN master thesis award was granted to Kevin Jilissen for his master thesis showing that tunnel software can formally be verified, exposing some design errors.
Author: Jan Friso Groote
New book on mCRL2
The book ‘Understanding behaviour of distributed systems using mCRL2‘, written by Muhammad Atif and Jan Friso Groote has appeared in the Systems, Decision and Control series of Springer. It gives an introduction into mCRL2 with many examples, varying from games to distributed protocols.
Paper accepted for FOSSACS 2023
The paper, compositional learning for interleaving parallel automata, by Labbai, Groote, Hojjat and Mousavi has been accepted for FOSSACS 23. It describes an algorithm to learn behaviour of parallel components, without knowing the parallel structure.
Book: Tales of Electrologica is available.
This book describes the history of the most iconic computer ever developed in The Netherlands, the Electrologica X8. It contains a number of stories by the original contributers to the soft- and hardware of this machine. The editors are Gerard Alberts and Jan Friso Groote. Published by Springer in their History of Computing series.
Parallel Model Checking
The paper “Using the parallel ATerm library for parallel model checking”, by Groote, Jilissen, Laveaux, Spaendonck, and Willemse has been published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13560, Springer. It describes how very substantial speedups of state space generation and model checking are attainable on multi-core computers.
Tales of Electrologica
The book Tales of Electrologica. Computers, software and people, by Gerard Alberts and Jan Friso Groote is published in Springer’s History of Computing Series. It provides several accounts of the iconic X8 computer, built in the Netherlands in the early 60′-ies by the company Electrologica.
Proceedings FMICS 2022 available
The proceedings of Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS) 2022, Warsaw, Poland, by Jan Friso Groote and Marieke Huisman are now available as LNCS 13487, Springer.
Paper presented at SigSoft 2022
The paper Constructive Model Inference: Model Learning for Component-based Software Architectures by Bram Hooimeijer, Marc Geilen, Jan Friso Groote, Dennis Hendriks and Ramon Schiffeler has been presented at SigSoft 2022 in Lissabon, Portugal. The paper outlines how large scale software learning from logs is possible, generating pretty exact models for dozens of ASML software components …continue reading
Tim Willemse group leader
Starting on Juli 1, 2021 Tim Willemse took over the role of cluster leader of FSA from Jan Friso Groote who has been leader for more than 20 years.
Leo van Schooten graduated
On May 10, 2021 Leo van Schooten successfully defended his thesis on translating a DSL in use at Philips to specify and control X-ray capabilities to the language Dezyne, allowing for a less complex software generation process, and enabling the possibility to automatically verify correctness properties.