Thomas Neele, who obtained his PhD under the supervision of Tim Willemse and Jan Friso Groote, won the award for the best dissertation of 2020 of the Dutch Research School IPA for his dissertation “Reductions …continue reading
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Paper on process decomposition accepted for ICE 2021
The paper Decomposing Monolithic Processes in a Process Algebra with Multi-actions by Maurice Laveaux and Tim Willemse was accepted for presentation at ICE 2021, a workshop co-located with DisCoTec 2021. The interactive style of reviewing …continue reading
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 …continue reading
Proceedings TACAS 2021 are online
The proceedings of TACAS 2021 are online (LNCS 12651 and LNCS 12652). Editors are J.F. Groote and K.G. Larsen. They are open access.
Two Assistant Professor and/or Support Positions in FSA
The Formal System Analysis group has two vacancies for tenured/tenure track assistant professor and/or support staff positions. More information about these positions can be found here. Screening has started. The application deadline is 30 April, …continue reading
Paper on the axiomatisability of parallel composition accepted for presentation at CSL 2021
The paper Are Two Binary Operators Necessary to Finitely Axiomatise Parallel Composition? by Luca Aceto, Valentina Castiglioni, Wan Fokkink, Anna Ingolfsdottir and Bas Luttik has been accepted for presentation at CSL 2021, which will take …continue reading
Big software project MERITS finished
The NWO Big Software project MERITS is finished. It investigated whether refactoring of legacy software is possible by automatic learning. The conclusion is that this is a bridge too far, but learning techniques are an …continue reading
Paper accepted at Concur2020
A paper containing a near-linear time algorithm for weak bisimilarity for Markov chains, by Jansen, Groote, Timmers and Yang has been accepted at Concur 2020. The paper provides an average time O(m log^4 n) algorithm, …continue reading
Paper on system level liveness verification in xMAS accepted for FMCAD 2020
The paper “Effective System Level Liveness Verification” by Alexander Fedotov, Jeroen Keiren and Julien Schmaltz has been accepted for presentation at FMCAD 2020, which will take place as an online conference. The paper introduces a …continue reading
Paper on the formal verification of OIL component specifications accepted at FMICS 2020
The paper “Formal verification of OIL component specifications using mCRL2” by Olav Bunte, Louis van Gool and Tim Willemse has been accepted for presentation at FMICS 2020, which will take place as an online conference, …continue reading