Alexandru Mereacre

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Personal Info about Alexandru Mereacre

Postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford

Lecture Notes

Transition probabilities for Inhomogeneous Continuous Time Markov Chains

Publication slides

Compositional Modeling and Minimization of Time-inhomogeneous Markov Chains

Teaching

Exercises for Semantics and Verification of Software (2008-2009)
Exercises for Advanced Model Checking (2009)
Exercises for Foundations of the UML (2009-2010)
Exercises for Model Checking (2010)
Exercises for Advanced Model Checking (2010-2011)

Publications

2017
Download	Ilya Tkachev, Alexandru Mereacre, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alessandro Abate. Quantitative Model Checking of Controlled Discrete-Time Markov Processes. Information and Computation 253, pages 1-35, 2017.
2013
Link	Ilya Tkachev, Alexandru Mereacre, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alessandro Abate. Quantitative Automata-based Controller Synthesis for Non-Autonomous Stochastic Hybrid Systems. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), pages 293–303, ACM, 2013.
2011
Download	Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Observing Continuous-Time MDPs by 1-Clock Timed Automata. Workshop on Reachability Problems (RP), Volume 6945 of LNCS, pages 2–25, Springer-Verlag, 2011.
Download	Alexandru Mereacre. Verification of Continuous-Space Stochastic Systems. Phd Thesis at RWTH Aachen University, 2011.
Download	Alessandro Abate, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Quantitative Automata Model Checking of Autonomous Stochastic Hybrid Systems. 14th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), pages 83–92, ACM Press, 2011.
Download	Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Model Checking of Continuous-Time Markov Chains Against Timed Automata Specifications. Logical Methods in Computer Science 7(1-2), pages 1–34, 2011.
Download	Benoit Barbot, Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Efficient CTMC Model Checking of Linear Real-Time Objectives. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), Volume 6605 of LNCS, pages 128–142, , 2011.
Download	Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Reachability probabilities in Markovian Timed Automata. Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), pages 7075–7080, IEEE, 2011.
2010
Download	Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Computing Maximum Reachability Probabilities in Markovian Timed Automata. Technical report at Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University number AIB-2010-06, 2010.
Download	Marijn R. Jongerden, Alexandru Mereacre, Henrik Bohnenkamp, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Joost-Pieter Katoen. Computing Optimal Schedules for Battery Usage in Embedded Systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 6(3), pages 276–286, 2010.
Download	Benoit Barbot, Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Efficient CTMC Model Checking of Linear Real-Time Objectives. Technical report at RWTH Aachen University number , 2010.
2009
Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Quantitative model checking of continuous-time Markov chains against timed automata specifications. Technical report at RWTH Aachen University number AIB-2009-02, 2009.
Download	Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Quantitative Model Checking of Continuous-Time Markov Chains Against Timed Automata Specifications. IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), IEEE CS Press, 2009.
Download	Taolue Chen, Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. LTL model checking of time-inhomogeneous Markov chains. 7th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA'09), Volume 5799 of LNCS, pages 104–119, , 2009.
2008
Download	Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Approximate parameter synthesis for probabilistic time-bounded reachability. Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pages 173–182, IEEE CS Press, 2008.
Download	Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Compositional Modeling and Minimization of Time-inhomogeneous Markov Chains. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), Volume 4981 of LNCS, pages 244–258, Springer Verlag, 2008.
Download	Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Model Checking HML On Piecewise-Constant Inhomogeneous Markov Chains. Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS), Volume 5215 of LNCS, pages 203–217, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
2007
Download	Tingting Han, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Alexandru Mereacre. Compositional Modeling and Minimization of Time-Inhomogeneous Markov Chains. Technical report at RWTH Aachen number AIB-2007-21, 2007.

BSc/MSc/Diploma Topics

Teaching WS 2012/13

Hybrid Systems Group

March 12, 2014

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

Sept. 17, 2013

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.

July 15, 2013

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

May 6, 2013

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

April 11, 2013

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.

March 20, 2013

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.

February 6, 2013

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

21 December, 2012

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.

August 16, 2012

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.

July 20, 2012

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

April 2, 2012

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.

March 19, 2012

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.

March 1, 2012

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.

January 27, 2012

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

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