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Publications by Stefan Kiefer

2012

Tomáš Brázdil and Stefan Kiefer. Stabilization of branching queueing networks. In C. Dürr and T. Wilke, editors, Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), Paris, France, 2012.
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Tomáš Brázdil, Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Space-efficient scheduling of stochastically generated tasks. Information and Computation, 210:87–110, January 2012.
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Stefan Kiefer, Andrzej S. Murawski, Joël Ouaknine, Björn Wachter, and James Worrell. On the complexity of the equivalence problem for probabilistic automata. In Lars Birkedal, editor, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Tallinn, Estonia, 2012. Springer.
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2011

Stefan Kiefer and Dominik Wojtczak. On probabilistic parallel programs with process creation and synchronisation. In P.A. Abdulla and K.R.M. Leino, editors, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), volume 6605 of LNCS, pages 296–310, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2011. Springer.
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Javier Esparza, Pierre Ganty, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Parikh's theorem: A simple and direct automaton construction. Information Processing Letters (IPL), 111(12):614–619, 2011.
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Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Derivation tree analysis for accelerated fixed-point computation. Theoretical Computer Science, 412(28):3226–3241, 2011.
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Stefan Kiefer, Andrzej S. Murawski, Joël Ouaknine, James Worrell, and Lijun Zhang. On stabilization in Herman's algorithm. In L. Aceto, M. Henzinger, and J. Sgall, editors, Proceedings of the 38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), volume 6756 of LNCS, pages 466–477, Zürich, Switzerland, 2011. Springer.
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Tomáš Brázdil, Stefan Kiefer, Antonín Kučera, and Ivana Hutařová Vařeková. Runtime analysis of probabilistic programs with unbounded recursion. In L. Aceto, M. Henzinger, and J. Sgall, editors, Proceedings of the 38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), volume 6756 of LNCS, pages 319–331, Zürich, Switzerland, 2011. Springer.
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Tomáš Brázdil, Stefan Kiefer, and Antonín Kučera. Efficient analysis of probabilistic programs with an unbounded counter. In G. Gopalakrishnan and S. Qadeer, editors, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), volume 6806 of LNCS, pages 208–224, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 2011. Springer.
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Stefan Kiefer, Andrzej S. Murawski, Joël Ouaknine, Björn Wachter, and James Worrell. Language equivalence for probabilistic automata. In G. Gopalakrishnan and S. Qadeer, editors, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), volume 6806 of LNCS, pages 526–540, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 2011. Springer.
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2010

Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Newtonian program analysis. Journal of the ACM, 57(6):33:1–33:47, October 2010.
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Javier Esparza, Andreas Gaiser, and Stefan Kiefer. Computing least fixed points of probabilistic systems of polynomials. In Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), pages 359–370, Nancy, France, 2010.
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Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Computing the least fixed point of positive polynomial systems. SIAM Journal on Computing, 39(6):2282–2335, 2010.
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Tomáš Brázdil, Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Space-efficient scheduling of stochastically generated tasks. In Samson Abramsky et al., editor, Proceedings of the 37th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), part II, volume 6199 of LNCS, ARCoSS, pages 539–550, Bordeaux, France, 2010. Springer.
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2009

Morten Kühnrich, Stefan Schwoon, Jiří Srba, and Stefan Kiefer. Interprocedural dataflow analysis over weight domains with infinite descending chains. In Luca de Alfaro, editor, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures (FOSSACS), volume 5504 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 440–455, York, UK, March 2009. Springer.
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Tomáš Brázdil, Javier Esparza, and Stefan Kiefer. On the memory consumption of probabilistic pushdown automata. In Ravi Kannan and K. Narayan Kumar, editors, Proceedings of the IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, pages 49–60, Kanpur, India, 2009.
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Stefan Kiefer. Solving systems of positive polynomial equations. PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2009.
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2008

Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Stefan Schwoon. Abstraction refinement with Craig interpolation and symbolic pushdown systems. Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation, 5:27–56, June 2008. Special Issue on Constraints to Formal Verification.
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Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Convergence thresholds of Newton's method for monotone polynomial equations. In Pascal Weil and Susanne Albers, editors, Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), pages 289–300, Bordeaux, France, 2008. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2856.
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Javier Esparza, Thomas Gawlitza, Stefan Kiefer, and Helmut Seidl. Approximative methods for monotone systems of min-max-polynomial equations. In Luca Aceto et al., editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), part I, volume 5125 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 698–710, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2008. Springer.
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Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Solving monotone polynomial equations. In Fifth IFIP International Conference On Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), volume 273 of IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, pages 285–298, Milano, Italy, 2008. Springer. Invited paper.
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Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Newton's method for -continuous semirings. In Luca Aceto et al., editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), part II, volume 5126 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 14–26, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2008. Springer. Invited paper.
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Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. Derivation tree analysis for accelerated fixed-point computation. In Masami Ito and Masafumi Toyama, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT), volume 5257 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 301–313, Kyoto, Japan, 2008. Springer.
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2007

Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. On fixed point equations over commutative semirings. In Wolfgang Thomas and Pascal Weil, editors, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), volume 4393 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 296–307, Aachen, Germany, 2007. Springer.
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Stefan Kiefer, Michael Luttenberger, and Javier Esparza. On the convergence of Newton's method for monotone systems of polynomial equations. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 217–226, San Diego, California, USA, 2007. ACM.
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Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Michael Luttenberger. An extension of Newton's method to -continuous semirings. In Tero Harju, Juhani Karhumäki, and Arto Lepistö, editors, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT), volume 4588 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 157–168, Turku, Finland, 2007. Springer.
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2006

Javier Esparza, Stefan Kiefer, and Stefan Schwoon. Abstraction refinement with Craig interpolation and symbolic pushdown systems. In Holger Hermanns and Jens Palsberg, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), volume 3920 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 489–503, Vienna, Austria, 2006. Springer.
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2005

Stefan Kiefer. Abstraction refinement for pushdown systems. Master's thesis, Universität Stuttgart, 2005.
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2003

Stefan Kiefer. Die Menge der virtuellen Verbindungen im Spiel Hex ist PSPACE-vollständig. Studienarbeit Nr. 1887, Universität Stuttgart, Juli 2003. In German.
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