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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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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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Nikola Benes, Jan Kretinsky, Kim G. Larsen, Mikael H. Moller, and Jiri Srba. Dual-priced modal transition systems with time durations. In LPAR, 2012. To appear.
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Corneliu Popeea and Andrey Rybalchenko. Compositional termination proofs for multi-threaded programs. In TACAS, 2012.
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2011

Ashutosh Gupta, Corneliu Popeea, and Andrey Rybalchenko. Solving recursion-free horn clauses over LI+UIF. In APLAS, December 2011.
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Javier Esparza and Andreas Gaiser. Probabilistic abstractions with arbitrary domains. In Proceedings of the 18th International Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), Venice, Italy, September 2011.
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Ashutosh Gupta, Corneliu Popeea, and Andrey Rybalchenko. Threader: A constraint-based verifier for multi-threaded programs. In CAV, pages 412–417, July 2011.
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J. Esparza and P. Ganty. Complexity of pattern-based verification for multithreaded programs. In Proc. of the 38th SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, POPL '11, 2011.
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Stefan Haar, Christian Kern, and Stefan Schwoon. Computing the reveals relation in occurrence nets. In GandALF, pages 31–44, 2011.
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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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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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Tomas Brazdil, Jan Krcal, Jan Kretinsky, Antonin Kucera, and Vojtech Rehak. Measuring performance of continuous-time stochastic processes using timed automata. In Caccamo et al., pages 33–42.
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Tomás Brázdil, Jan Krcál, Jan Kretinsky, and Vojtech Rehák. Fixed-delay events in generalized semi-markov processes revisited. In CONCUR, pages 140–155, 2011.
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Nikola Benes, Ivana Cerna, and Jan Kretinsky. Modal transition systems: Composition and LTL model checking. In Bultan and Hsiung, pages 228–242.
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Nikola Benes, Jan Kretinsky, Kim G. Larsen, Mikael H. Moller, and Jiri Srba. Parametric modal transition systems. In Bultan and Hsiung, pages 275–289.
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Andreas Holzer, Visar Januzaj, Stefan Kugele, Boris Langer, Christian Schallhart, Michael Tautschnig, and Helmut Veith. Seamless testing for models and code. In Dimitra Giannakopoulou and Fernando Orejas, editors, Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 14th International Conference, FASE 2011, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 26-April 3, 2011. Proceedings, volume 6603 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 278–293. Springer, 2011.
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Javier Esparza and Michael Luttenberger. Solving fixed-point equations by derivation tree analysis. In CALCO, pages 19–35, 2011.
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Chih-Hong Cheng, Alois Knoll, Michael Luttenberger, and Christian Buckl. Gavs+: An open platform for the research of algorithmic game solving. In TACAS, pages 258–261, 2011.
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Andrey Rybalchenko and Juan Antonio Navarro. Separation logic + Superposition calculus = Heap theorem prover. In PLDI'11: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation, San Jose, CA, USA, 2011. ACM Press.
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Ashutosh Gupta, Corneliu Popeea, and Andrey Rybalchenko. Predicate abstraction and refinement for verifying multi-threaded programs. In POPL, pages 331–344, January 2011.
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Ranjit Jhala, Rupak Majumdar, and Andrey Rybalchenko. Hmc: Verifying functional programs using abstract interpreters. In Gopalakrishnan and Qadeer, pages 470–485.
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Andrey Rybalchenko. Towards automatic synthesis of software verification tools. In Schneider-Kamp and Hanus, pages 3–4.
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Andreas Podelski and Andrey Rybalchenko. Transition invariants and transition predicate abstraction for program termination. In Abdulla and Leino, pages 3–10.
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Nuno P. Lopes and Andrey Rybalchenko. Distributed and predictable software model checking. In Jhala and Schmidt, pages 340–355.
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2010

Wolfgang Haberl, Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Stefan Kugele, Michael Tautschnig, and Martin Wechs. Seamless model-driven development put into practice. In Tiziana Margaria and Bernhard Steffen, editors, Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation, volume 6415 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 18–32. Springer, October 2010.
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Andreas Holzer, Visar Januzaj, Stefan Kugele, and Michael Tautschnig. Timely time estimates. In Tiziana Margaria and Bernhard Steffen, editors, Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation, volume 6415 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 33–46. Springer, October 2010.
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Ashutosh Gupta, Corneliu Popeea, and Andrey Rybalchenko. Non-monotonic refinement of control abstraction for concurrent programs. In ATVA, pages 188–202, September 2010.
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Wolfgang Haberl, Stefan Kugele, and Uwe Baumgarten. Model-Based Generation of Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems. In Hamid R. Arabnia and Ashu M. G. Solo, editors, Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, ESA 2010, pages 136–142, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2010. CSREA Press.
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Corneliu Popeea and Wei-Ngan Chin. Dual analysis for proving safety and finding bugs. In SAC, pages 2137–2143, March 2010.
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B König and J. Esparza. Verification of graph transformation systems with context-free specifications. In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Graph Transformations, 2010.
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J. Esparza, M. Leucker, and M. Schlund. Learning workflow Petri nets. In Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, 2010.
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J. Esparza. A false history of true concurrency: from Petri to tools. In Proc. of the 17th International SPIN Workshop, 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), Nancy, France, 2010.
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Christian Kern. Automatic error correction of java programs. In AlgoSyn, page 155, 2010.
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Christian Kern and Javier Esparza. Automatic error correction of java programs. In FMICS, pages 67–81, 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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Tomas Brazdil, Jan Krcal, Jan Kretinsky, Antonin Kucera, and Vojtech Rehak. Stochastic real-time games with qualitative timed automata objectives. In CONCUR, pages 207–221, 2010.
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Nikola Benes and Jan Kretinsky. Process algebra for modal transition systemses. In MEMICS, pages 9–18, 2010.
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Chih-Hong Cheng, Christian Buckl, Michael Luttenberger, and Alois Knoll. Gavs: Game arena visualization and synthesis. In ATVA, pages 347–352, 2010.
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Andrey Rybalchenko. Constraint solving for program verification: Theory and practice by example. In Touili et al., pages 57–71.
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Boris Köpf and Andrey Rybalchenko. Approximation and randomization for quantitative information-flow analysis. In CSF, pages 3–14.
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Andrey Rybalchenko. Constraint solving for program verification: Theory and practice by example. In Dawar and Veith, page 51.
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Thomas A. Henzinger, Thibaud Hottelier, Laura Kovács, and Andrey Rybalchenko. Aligators for arrays (tool paper). In Fermüller and Voronkov, pages 348–356.
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Alexander Malkis, Andreas Podelski, and Andrey Rybalchenko. Thread-modular counterexample-guided abstraction refinement. In Cousot and Martel, pages 356–372.
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2009

Andreas Gaiser and Stefan Schwoon. Comparison of algorithms for checking emptiness on Büchi automata. In Tomáš Vojnar, Petr Hliněný, Vashek Matyáš, and David Antoš, editors, Proceedings of the 5th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science (MEMICS), pages 69–77, Znojmo, Czechia, November 2009.
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Visar Januzaj and Stefan Kugele. Model analysis via a translation schema to coloured petri nets. In Daniel Moldt, editor, PNSE'09: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering, pages 273–292, June 2009.
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Wolfgang Haberl, Stefan Kugele, and Uwe Baumgarten. Reliable operating modes for distributed embedded systems. In Proceedings of the ICSE Workshop on Model-based Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software, volume 0, pages 11–21, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, May 2009. IEEE Computer Society.
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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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Nikola Benes, Jan Kretinsky, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Jiri Srba. Checking thorough refinement on modal transition systems is exptime-complete. In ICTAC, pages 112–126, 2009.
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Tomas Brazdil, Vojtech Forejt, Jan Krcal, Jan Kretinsky, and Antonin Kucera. Continuous-time stochastic games with time-bounded reachability. In FSTTCS, pages 61–72, 2009.
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Andreas Holzer, Visar Januzaj, and Stefan Kugele. Towards resource consumption-aware programming. In Kenneth Boness, João M. Fernandes, Jon G. Hall, Ricardo Jorge Machado, and Roy Oberhauser, editors, The Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2009, 20-25 September 2009, Porto, Portugal, pages 490–493. IEEE Computer Society, 2009.
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2008

Martin Sachenbacher and Stefan Schwoon. Model-based test generation using quantified CSPs. In Alban Grastien, Wolfgang Mayer, and Markus Stumptner, editors, Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), pages 159–165, Blue Mountains, Australia, September 2008.
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Dejvuth Suwimonteerabuth, Javier Esparza, and Stefan Schwoon. Symbolic context-bounded analysis of multithreaded java programs. In Klaus Havelund and Rupak Majumdar, editors, Proceedings of SPIN 2008, volume 5156 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 270–287, Los Angeles, USA, August 2008. Springer.
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Stefan Kugele and Wolfgang Haberl. Mapping Data-Flow Dependencies onto Distributed Embedded Systems. In Hamid R. Arabnia and Hassan Reza, editors, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research & Practice, SERP 2008, volume 1, pages 272–278. CSREA Press, July 2008.
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Martin Sachenbacher and Stefan Schwoon. Model-based test generation using quantified CSPs: A map. In Bernhard Peischl, Neal Snooke, Gerald Steinbauer, and Cees Witteveen, editors, Proceedings of the ECAI 2008 Workshop on Model-Based Systems, pages 37–41, Patras, Greece, July 2008.
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Zhonglei Wang, Wolfgang Haberl, Stefan Kugele, and Michael Tautschnig. Automatic Generation of SystemC Models from Component-based Designs for Early Design Validation and Performance Analysis. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP 2008, pages 23–26, Princeton, NJ, USA, June 2008. ACM.
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Achim Rettinger, Matthias Nickles, and Volker Tresp. A statistical relational model for trust learning. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), May 2008.
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Ahmed Bouajjani, Javier Esparza, Stefan Schwoon, and Dejvuth Suwimonteerabuth. SDSIrep: A reputation system based on SDSI. In C.R. Ramakrishnan and Jakob Rehof, editors, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), volume 4963 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 501–516, Budapest, Hungary, April 2008. Springer.
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Sven Bünte and Michael Tautschnig. A Benchmarking Suite for Measurement-Based WCET Analysis Tools. In First International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), Lillehammer, Norway, April 2008. IEEE Computer Society Press.
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Wolfgang Haberl, Michael Tautschnig, and Uwe Baumgarten. Running COLA on Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2008, Hongkong, China, March 2008.
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J. Bauer, Iovka Boneva, Arend Rensink, and Marcos E. Kurban. A modal-logic based graph abstraction. In Reiko Heckel and Gabriele Taentzer, editors, International Conference of Graph Transformation. Springer, 2008.
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J. Bauer, Flemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson, and Henrik Pilegaard. Relational analysis of correlation. In 15th International Static Analysis Symposium, volume tba of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2008.
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Björn Schuller, Matthias Wimmer, Lorenz Moesenlechner, Christian Kern, Dejan Arsic, and Gerhard Rigoll. Brute-forcing hierarchical functionals for paralinguistics: A waste of feature space?. In ICASSP, pages 4501–4504, 2008.
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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. 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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Tomas Brazdil, Vojtech Forejt, Jan Kretinsky, and Antonin Kucera. The satisfiability problem for probabilistic CTL. In LICS, pages 391–402, 2008.
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Stefan Kugele, Wolfgang Haberl, Michael Tautschnig, and Martin Wechs. Optimizing automatic deployment using non-functional requirement annotations. In Tiziana Margaria and Bernhard Steffen, editors, Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, volume 17 of CCIS, pages 400–414. Springer, 2008.
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2007

Andreas Bauer, Martin Leucker, Christian Schallhart, and Michael Tautschnig. Don't care in SMT—building flexible yet efficient abstraction/refinement solvers. In Proceedings of the 2007 ISoLA Workshop On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA), pages 135–146, Poitiers, France, December 2007.
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Achim Rettinger, Matthias Nickles, and Volker Tresp. Learning initial trust among interacting agents. In Eleventh International Workshop CIA 2007 on Cooperative Information Agents. Springer 2007, September 2007.
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Christian Kühnel, Andreas Bauer, and Michael Tautschnig. Compatibility and reuse in component-based systems via type and unit inference. In Proceedings of the 33rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), pages 101–108, Lübeck, Germany, August 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press.
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Dejvuth Suwimonteerabuth, Felix Berger, Stefan Schwoon, and Javier Esparza. jMoped: A test environment for Java programs. In Werner Damm and Holger Hermanns, editors, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), volume 4590 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 164–167, Berlin, Germany, July 2007. Springer.
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Paolo Baldan, Andrea Corradini, Barbara König, and Stefan Schwoon. McMillan's complete prefix for contextual nets. In Eric Fabre and Victor Khomenko, editors, Proceedings of UFO 2007, pages 32–49, Siedlce, Poland, June 2007.
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Andreas Bauer, Markus Pister, and Michael Tautschnig. Tool-support for the analysis of hybrid systems and models. In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), pages 924–929, Nice, France, April 2007. European Design and Automation Association.
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J. Bauer, Werner Damm, Tobe Toben, and Bernd Westphal. Verification and Synthesis of Ocl Constraints via Topology Analysis: A Case Study. In Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance Third International Symposium. Springer, 2007.
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J. Bauer, Tobe Toben, and Bernd Westphal. Mind the shapes: Abstraction refinement via topology invariants. In Kedar S. Namjoshi, Tomohiro Yoneda, Teruo Higashino, and Yoshio Okamura, editors, Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, 5th International Symposium, ATVA 2007, Tokyo, Japan, October 22-25, 2007, Proceedings, volume 4762, pages 35–50. Springer, 2007.
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Flemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson, J. Bauer, Christoffer Rosenkilde Nielsen, and Henrik Pilegaard. Relational analysis for delivery of services. In Trustworthy Global Computing, volume 4912, pages 73–89. Springer, 2007.
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J. Bauer and Reinhard Wilhelm. Static Analysis of Dynamic Communication Systems. In 14th International Static Analysis Symposium, volume 4634. Springer, 2007.
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Thomas Reps, Mooly Sagiv, and J. Bauer. An appreciation of the work of reinhard wilhelm. In Festschrift, pages 1–11.
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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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Andreas Holzer, Johannes Kinder, and Helmut Veith. Using verification technology to specify and detect malware. In 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (EUROCAST 2007), volume 4739 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 497–504. Springer, 2007.
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M. Nickles. Towards a logic of graded normativity and norm adherence. In G. Boella, L. van der Torre, and H. Verhagen, editors, Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Normative Multiagent Systems (NORMAS-07). Dagstuhl, 2007.
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2006

Prasad Naldurg, Stefan Schwoon, Sriram Rajamani, and John Lambert. NETRA: Seeing through access control. In Andrew D. Gordon and David Sands, editors, Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering (FMSE), pages 55–66, Alexandria, USA, November 2006.
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Dejvuth Suwimonteerabuth, Stefan Schwoon, and Javier Esparza. Efficient algorithms for alternating pushdown systems with an application to the computation of certificate chains. In Susanne Graf and Wenhui Zhang, editors, 4th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA), volume 4218 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 141–153, Beijing, China, October 2006. Springer.
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Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Thomas Reps, Stefan Schwoon, and Stuart Stubblebine. Reducing the dependence of SPKI/SDSI on PKI. In Dieter Gollmann, Jan Meier, and Andrei Sabelfeld, editors, Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), volume 4189 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 156–173, Hamburg, Germany, September 2006. Springer.
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Achim Rettinger, Martin Zinkevich, and Michael Bowling. Boosting expert ensembles for rapid concept recall. In AAAI'06 Proceedings, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Eighteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. AAAI Press 2006, July 2006.
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J. Esparza, P. Jančar, and A. Miller. On the complexity of consistency and complete state coding. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2006), Turku, Finland, June 2006. IEEE Computer Society.
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A. Bouajjani and J. Esparza. Rewriting models of boolean programs. In Proceedings of RTA 2006, Seattle, USA, 2006.
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G. Delzanno, J. Esparza, and J. Srba. Monotonic set-extended prefix rewriting and verification of recursive ping-pong protocols. In Proceedings of ATVA 2006, Beijing, China, 2006.
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J. Bauer, Ina Schaefer, Tobe Toben, and Bernd Westphal. Specification and Verification of Dynamic Communication Systems. In Application of Concurrency to System Design, 2006. ACSD 2006. Sixth International Conference on. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2006.
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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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Michael Luttenberger. Reachability analysis of procedural programs with affine integer arithmetic. In Oscar H. Ibarra and Hsu-Chun Yen, editors, Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, volume 4094 of LNCS, 2006.
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B. Gaudou, A. Herzig, D. Longin, and M. Nickles. A new semantics for the fipa agent communication language based on social attitudes.. In Proceedings ECAI 2006, 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 29 - September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy, pages 245–249, 2006.
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F. A. Fischer and M. Nickles. Computational opinions.. In Proceedings ECAI 2006, 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 29 - September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy, pages 240–244, 2006.
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M. Nickles. Modeling social attitudes on the web.. In Proceedings ISWC 2006, 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006, pages 529–543, 2006.
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M. Nickles and R. Cobos. Social contexts and the probabilistic fusion and ranking of opinions: Towards a social semantics for the semantic web. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW-06). CEUR-WS, 2006.
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2005

Ahmed Bouajjani, Javier Esparza, Stefan Schwoon, and Jan Strejček. Reachability analysis of multithreaded software with asynchronous communication. In Ramaswamy Ramanujam and Sandeep Sen, editors, Proceedings of FSTTCS 2005, volume 3821 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 348–359. Springer, December 2005.
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Johannes Kinder, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Christian Schallhart, and Helmut Veith. Detecting malicious code by model checking. In GI SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA'05), volume 3548 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 174–187. Springer, July 2005.
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Stefan Schwoon and Javier Esparza. A note on on-the-fly verification algorithms. In Nicolas Halbwachs and Lenore Zuck, editors, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), volume 3440 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 174–190, Edinburgh, UK, April 2005. Springer.
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Dejvuth Suwimonteerabuth, Stefan Schwoon, and Javier Esparza. jMoped: A Java bytecode checker based on Moped. In Nicolas Halbwachs and Lenore Zuck, editors, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), volume 3440 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 541–545, Edinburgh, UK, April 2005. Springer. Tool paper.
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Tomáš Brádzil, Antonín Kučera, and Javier Esparza. Analysis and prediction of the long-run behaviour of probabilistic sequential programs with recursion. In Proceedings of FOCS 2005, pages 521–530, 2005.
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Javier Esparza, Pierre Ganty, and Stefan Schwoon. Locality-based abstractions. In Proceedings of SAS 2005, volume 3672 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 118–134, 2005.
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Javier Esparza, Antonín Kučera, and Richard Mayr. Quantitative analysis of probabilistic pushdown automata: Expectations and variances. In LICS 2005, pages 117–126. IEEE Computer Society, 2005.
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N. Rinetzky, J. Bauer, T. Reps, M. Sagiv, and R. Wilhelm. A Semantics for Procedure Local Heaps and its Abstractions. In 32nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'05), 2005.
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M. Nickles and F. Fischer. Communication attitudes: A formal account of ostensible beliefs and intentions. In Third European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2005), Brussel, Belgium, 2005.
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M. Nickles, T. Froehner, R. Cobos, and G. Weiß. Multi-source knowledge bases and ontologies with multiple individual and social viewpoints. In Proceedings of The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05). IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005.
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G. Weiß, F. A. Fischer, M. Nickles, and M. Rovatsos. Operational modelling of agent autonomy: Theoretical aspects and a formal language.. In Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI, 6th International Workshop, AOSE 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005. Revised and Invited Papers, pages 1–15, 2005.
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M. Nickles, M. Rovatsos, W. Brauer, and G. Weiß. Communication systems: A unified model of socially intelligent systems. In K. Fischer and M. Florian, editors, Socionics, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, 2005. Invited paper.
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M. Nickles and G. Weiß. Multiagent systems without agents: Mirror-holons for the compilation and enactment of communication structures. In K. Fischer and M. Florian, editors, Socionics, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, 2005. Invited paper.
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M. Nickles, F. Fischer, and G. Weiß. Communication attitudes: A formal approach to ostensible intentions, and individual and group opinions. In Wiebe van der Hoek and Mike Wooldridge, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Logic and Communication in Multiagent Systems (LCMAS 2005), 2005.
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M. Nickles, M. Rovatsos, and G. Weiß. Formulating agent communication semantics and pragmatics as behavioral expectations. In F. Dignum, R. van Eijk, and M.-P. Huget, editors, Agent Communication Languages II, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer, 2005. Invited paper.
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Heni Ben Amor and Achim Rettinger. Intelligent exploration for genetic algorithms: Using self-organizing maps in evolutionary computation. In GECCO'05: Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pages 1531–1538. ACM Press, 2005.
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2004

Markus Holzer and Stefan Schwoon. Reflections on Reflexion – computational complexity considerations on a puzzle game. In Paolo Ferragina and Roberto Grossi, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on FUN with Algorithms, pages 90–105. Università di Pisa, May 2004.
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Javier Esparza and Kousha Etessami. Verifying probabilistic procedural programs. In Proceedings of FSTTCS 2004, volume 3328 of LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 16–31, 2004.
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Ahmed Bouajjani, Javier Esparza, and Tayssir Touili. Reachability analysis of synchronized PA-systems. In Proceedings of Infinity 2004, 2004.
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Javier Esparza, Antonín Kučera, and Richard Mayr. Model checking probabilistic pushdown automata. In LICS 2004. IEEE Computer Society, 2004.
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T. Froehner, M. Nickles, and G. Weiß. Open ontologies – The need for modeling heterogeneous knowledge. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE-2004), 2004.
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T. Froehner, M. Nickles, and G. Weiß. Towards modeling the social layer of emergent knowledge using open ontologies. In ECAI Workshop on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM), pages 10–19, 2004.
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M. Nickles, T. Froehner, and G. Weiß. Social annotation of semantically heterogeneous knowledge. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (SemAnnot), 2004.
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M. Nickles, T. Froehner, and G. Weiß. Open ontologies and open knowledge bases for modeling the social layer of the Semantic Web (poster). In The Third International Semantic Web Conference (ISCW), 2004.
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M. Nickles, M. Rovatsos, and G. Weiß. Empirical-rational semantics of agent communication. In Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004), pages 94–101, 2004.
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M. Rovatsos, M. Nickles, and G. Weiß. An empirical model of communication in multiagent systems. In F. Dignum, editor, Agent communication languages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2922, pages 18–36. Springer-Verlag, 2004. Invited paper.
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Achim Rettinger. Learning from recorded games: A scoring policy for simulated soccer agents. In Ubbo Visser, Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Patrick Doherty, and Gerhard Lakemeyer, editors, Proceedings of the ECAI 2004, 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop 8: Agents in Dynamic and Real-Time Environments, pages 43–48, 2004.
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2003

J. Esparza. A polynomial-time algorithm for checking consistency of free-choice signal transition graphs. In Balarin J. Lilius, F and R.J. Machado, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2003), pages 61–70, Guimaraes, Portugal, June 2003. IEEE Computer Society. ISBN 0-7695-1887-7.
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Thomas Reps, Stefan Schwoon, and Somesh Jha. Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis. In Radhia Cousot, editor, Proceedings of the 10th International Static Analysis Symposium, volume 2694 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 189–213. Springer, June 2003.
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Stefan Schwoon, Somesh Jha, Thomas Reps, and Stuart Stubblebine. On generalized authorization problems. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW), pages 202–218. IEEE Computer Society, June 2003.
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Claus Schröter, Stefan Schwoon, and Javier Esparza. The Model-Checking Kit. In Wil van der Aalst and Eike Best, editors, Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003, volume 2679 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 463–472. Springer, June 2003.
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A. Bouajjani, J. Esparza, and T. Touili. A generic approach to the static analysis of concurrent programs with procedures. In Proc. of the 30th SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, POPL '03, 2003.
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January 2011: Michal Terepeta and Flemming Nielson have found a mistake in the paper: Lemma 1.2 (numbering of the journal version) does not hold as stated. We will try to repair it as soon as possible.
J. Esparza and M. Maidl. Simple representative instantiations for multicast protocols. In H. Garavel and J. Hatcliff, editors, Proc. of TACAS'03, number 2619 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 128–143. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
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M. Nickles and G. Weiß. Agent-based social assessment of shared resources.. In Second International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC-2003), pages 35–40, 2003.
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M. Nickles and G. Weiß. Empirical semantics of agent communication in open systems. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Environments (Challenge), 2003.
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M. Nickles and G. Weiß. A framework for the social description of resources in open environments. In M. Klusch, S. Ossowski, A. Omicini, and H. Laamanen, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA-2003), volume 2782 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 206–221. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
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M. Rovatsos, M. Nickles, and G. Weiß. Interaction is meaning: A new model for communication in open systems. In Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2003), pages 536–543, 2003.
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M. Nickles, M. Rovatsos, W. Brauer, and G. Weiß. Towards a unified model of sociality in multiagent systems. In W. Dosch and R. Y. Lee, editors, Proceedings of the ACIS Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD'03), October 16-18, 2003, Lübeck, Germany. ACIS, 2003.
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G. Weiß, M. Rovatsos, and M. Nickles. Capturing Agent Autonomy in Roles and XML. In J. S. Rosenschein, T. Sandholm, M. Wooldridge, and M. Yokoo, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'03), Melbourne, Australia, 2003.
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2002

Dejvuth Suwimonteerabuth and Prabhas Chongstitvatana. Online robot learning by reward and punishment for a mobile robot. In Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conference on Intelliget Robots and Systems, pages 921–926, October 2002.
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M. Nickles, M. Rovatsos, and G. Weiß. A Schema for Specifying Computational Autonomy. In P. Petta, R. Tolksdorf, and F. Zambonelli, editors, Engineering Societies in the Agents World III, Third International Workshop (ESAW-2002), Revised Papers, volume 2577 of LNAI. Springer-Verlag, September 16-17 2002.
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J. Esparza. Grammars as processes. In J. karhuaki W. Brauer, H. Ehrig and A. Salomaa, editors, Formal and Natural Computing, volume 2300 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag, 2002. ISBN 3-540-43190-X.
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W. Brauer, M. Nickles, M. Rovatsos, G. Weiß, and K.F. Lorentzen. Expectation-oriented analysis and design. In M.J. Wooldridge, G. Weiß, and P. Ciancarini, editors, Agent-oriented software engineering. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop (AOSE-2001), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2222, pages 226–244. Springer-Verlag, 2002.
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Claus Schröter, Stefan Schwoon, and Javier Esparza. The Model-Checking Kit. In Proceedings of Toolsday-Workshop (satellite event of CONCUR'02), Report Series FIMU-RS-2002-05, pages 22–31, Masaryk University, Brno, 2002.
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2001

Javier Esparza, Antonín Kučera, and Stefan Schwoon. Model-checking LTL with regular valuations for pushdown systems. In Naoki Kobayashi and Benjamin C. Pierce, editors, Proceedings of TACS 2001, volume 2215 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 306–339. Springer, October 2001.
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Javier Esparza and Stefan Schwoon. A BDD-based model checker for recursive programs. In Gérard Berry, Hubert Comon, and Alain Finkel, editors, Proceedings of CAV 2001, volume 2102 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 324–336. Springer, July 2001.
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J. Esparza and C. Schröter. Net reductions for LTL model-checking. In Proc. of 11th CHARME, volume 2144 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 310–324, Livingston, Scotland, 2001.
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M. Nickles. Multiagent Systems for the Social Competition Among Website Ratings. In Who's Who in Recommender Systems, Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGIR Workshop on Recommender Systems, 2001.
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2000

Javier Esparza, David Hansel, Peter Rossmanith, and Stefan Schwoon. Efficient algorithms for model checking pushdown systems. In E. Allen Emerson and A. Prasad Sistla, editors, Proceedings of CAV 2000, volume 1855 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 232–247. Springer, July 2000.
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J. Esparza and A. Podelski. Efficient algorithms for it pre and it post on interprocedural parallel flow graphs. In Proc. of POPL'2000, pages 1–11. ACM Press, 2000.
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J. Esparza and C. Schröter. Reachability Analysis Using Net Unfoldings. In H. D. Burkhard, L. Czaja, A. Skowron, and P. Starke, editors, Workshop of Concurrency, Specification & Programming, volume II of Informatik-Bericht 140, pages 255–270. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2000.
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L. Prensa Nieto and J. Esparza. Verifying single and multi-mutator garbage collectors with Owicki-Gries in Isabelle/HOL. In M. Nielsen and B. Rovan, editors, Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, number 1893 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 619–628. Springer-Verlag, 2000.
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C. Röckl and J. Esparza. On the mechanized verification of infinite systems. In A. Bode and T. Ludwig, editors, Proc. SFB 342 Final Colloquium, pages 31–52. Technische Universität München, 2000. Published as Technical Report.
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1999

G. Delzanno, J. Esparza, and A. Podelski. Constraint-based analysis of broadcast protocols. In Proceedings of CSL '99, number 1683 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 50–66, 1999.
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J. Esparza, A. Finkel, and R. Mayr. On the verification of broadcast protocols. In Proceedings of LICS '99, pages 352–359. IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
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J. Esparza and J. Knoop. An automata-theoretic approach to interprocedural dataflow analysis. In W. Thomas, editor, Proceedings von FOSSACS'99, number 1578 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 14–30, 1999.
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J. Esparza and S. Römer. An unfolding algorithm for synchronous products of transition systems. In Proc. of CONCUR'99, number 1664 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 2–20. Springer-Verlag, 1999.
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A. Kučera and J. Esparza. A logical viewpoint on process-algebraic quotients. In Proc. of CSL'99, number 1683 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 499–514. Springer-Verlag, 1999.
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C. Röckl and J. Esparza. Proof-checking protocols using bisimulations. In J. C. M. Baeten and S. Mauw, editors, Proc. of CONCUR'99, number 1664 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 525–540. Springer-Verlag, 1999.
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1998

J. Esparza. Decidability and complexity of Petri net problems – an introduction. In G. Rozenberg and W. Reisig, editors, Lectures on Petri Nets I: Basic Models. Advances in Petri Nets, number 1491 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 374–428, 1998. Section 8 presents a logic for Petri nets, due to Yen, having an EXPSPACE model-checking problem. Unfortunately, Yen's paper has a mistake. For a description of the mistake and a partial correction see "On Yen's Path Logic for Petri Nets" by Faouzi and Habermehl, Workshop on Reachability Problems 2009.
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1997

E. Best, J. Esparza, B. Grahlmann, S. Melzer, S. Römer, and F. Wallner. The PEP verification system. In FEmSys'97, 1997. Tool presentation.
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A. Bouajjani, J. Esparza, and O. Maler. Reachability analysis of pushdown automata: Application to model-checking. In Proc. of CONCUR'97, 1997.
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J. Esparza and S. Melzer. Model checking LTL using constraint programming. In Proc. of Application and Theory of Petri Nets'97, 1997.
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J. Esparza and P. Rossmanith. An automata approach to some problems on context-free grammars. In R. Valk C. Freksa, M. Jantzen, editor, Foundations of Computer Science, Potential - Theory - Cognition, number 1337 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 143–152, 1997.
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1996

J. Bradfield, J. Esparza, and A. Mader. An effective tableau system for the linear time mu-calculus. In F. Meyer auf der Heide and B. Monien, editors, Proc. of ICALP'96, number 1099 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 98–109. Springer-Verlag, 1996.
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J. Esparza, S. Römer, and W. Vogler. An improvement of McMillan's unfolding algorithm. In T. Margaria and B. Steffen, editors, Proc. of TACAS'96, number 1055 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 87–106. Springer-Verlag, 1996.
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J. Esparza. More infinite results. In Proc. of INFINITY'96, Research Report MIP-9614, University of Passau, 1996.
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P. Jancar and J. Esparza. Deciding finiteness of Petri nets up to bisimulation. In F. Meyer auf der Heide and B. Monien, editors, Proc. of ICALP'96, number 1099 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 478–489. Springer-Verlag, 1996.
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A. Kovalyov and J. Esparza. A polynomial algorithm to compute the concurrency relation of free-choice signal transition graphs. In Prof. of the International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, WODES'96, pages 1–6, Edinburgh, 1996. The Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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S. Melzer and J. Esparza. Checking system properties via integer programming. In Proc. of ESOP'96, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 1996.
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S. Melzer, S. Römer, and J. Esparza. Verification using PEP (tool presentation). In M. Wirsing and M. Nivat, editors, Proc. of AMAST'96, number 1101 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 591–594. Springer-Verlag, 1996.
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1995

J. Esparza and A. Kiehn. On the model checking problem for branching time logics and basic parallel processes. In Proc. of CAV'95, number 939 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 353–366. Springer-Verlag, 1995.
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J. Esparza. Petri nets, commutative context-free grammars, and basic parallel processes. In B. Reichel, editor, Proceedings of FCT '95, number 965 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 221–232, 1995.
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1994

J. Esparza. On the decidability of model checking for several mu-calculi and petri nets. In S. Tison, editor, Proceedings of Trees in Algebra and Programming - CAAP '94, 19th International Colloquium 1994, number 787 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 115–129, 1994.
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M. Koutny, J. Esparza, and E. Best. Operational semantics for the Petri box calculus. In B. Jonsson and J. Parrow, editors, Proceedings of CONCUR '94, number 836 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 210–225, 1994.
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1993

E. Best, R. Devillers, and J. Esparza. General refinement and recursion operators for the Petri box calculus. In Patrice Enjalbert et al., editor, 10th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science 1993 (10th STACS '93), number 665 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 130–140, 1993.
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J. Esparza and B. von Stengel:. The asynchronous committee meeting problem. In Jan van Leuween, editor, Proceedings of WG '93, Graph-Theoretic in Computer Science, 19th International Workshop, number 790 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 276–287, 1993.
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1991

E. Best, L. Cherkasova, J. Desel, and J. Esparza. Traps, free choice und home states (extended abstract). In W. Thomas M. Kwiatowska, M. Shields, editor, Semantics for Concurrency, Leicester 1990, Workshops in Computing, pages 16–21. Springer-Verlag, 1991.
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E. Best and J. Esparza. Model checking of persistent Petri nets. In G. Jäger E. Börger, H. Kleine Büning, and M. M. Richter, editors, Proceedings of Computer Science Logic, number 626 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 35–52, 1991.
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J. Desel and J. Esparza. Reachability in reversible free choice systems. In G.Choffrut und M. Jantzen, editor, Proceedings of STACS '91, number 480 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 384–397, 1991.
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J. Esparza and M. Silva. Top-down synthesis of free choice nets. In G. Rozenberg, editor, Advances in Petri Nets 1991, number 524 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 118–139, 1991.
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J. Esparza and M. Silva. Compositional synthesis of live und bounded free choice nets. In J.C.M. Baeten und J.F. Groote, editor, Proceedings of CONCUR '91, number 527 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 172–187, 1991.
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1990

J. Esparza and M. Silva. On the analysis und synthesis of free choice systems. In G Rozenberg., editor, Advances in Petri Nets 1990, number 483 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 243–286, 1990.
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J. Esparza and M. Silva. Circuits, handles, bridges and nets. In G. Rozenberg, editor, Advances in Petri Nets 1990, number 483 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 210–242, 1990.
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J. Esparza. Synthesis rules for Petri nets, und how they lead to new results. In J.C.M. Baeten und J.W. Klop, editor, Proceedings of CONCUR '90, number 458 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 182–198, 1990.
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