On correctness, precision, and performance in quantitative verification: QComp 2020 competition report

CE Budde, A Hartmanns, M Klauck, J Křetínský… - … applications of formal …, 2020 - Springer
Quantitative verification tools compute probabilities, expected rewards, or steady-state
values for formal models of stochastic and timed systems. Exact results often cannot be …

An efficient statistical model checker for nondeterminism and rare events

CE Budde, PR D'Argenio, A Hartmanns… - International journal on …, 2020 - Springer
Statistical model checking avoids the state space explosion problem in verification and
naturally supports complex non-Markovian formalisms. Yet as a simulation-based approach …

A statistical model checker for nondeterminism and rare events

CE Budde, PR D'Argenio, A Hartmanns… - … Conference on Tools …, 2018 - Springer
Statistical model checking avoids the state space explosion problem in verification and
naturally supports complex non-Markovian formalisms. Yet as a simulation-based approach …

Analyzing neural network behavior through deep statistical model checking

TP Gros, H Hermanns, J Hoffmann, M Klauck… - International Journal on …, 2023 - Springer
Neural networks (NN) are taking over ever more decisions thus far taken by humans, even
though verifiable system-level guarantees are far out of reach. Neither is the verification …

Tools at the frontiers of quantitative verification: QComp 2023 competition report

R Andriushchenko, A Bork, CE Budde, M Češka… - International …, 2024 - Springer
The analysis of formal models that include quantitative aspects such as timing or
probabilistic choices is performed by quantitative verification tools. Broad and mature tool …

Plasma lab: a modular statistical model checking platform

A Legay, S Sedwards, LM Traonouez - International Symposium on …, 2016 - Springer
We present an overview of Plasma Lab, a modular statistical model checking (SMC) platform
that facilitates multiple SMC algorithms, multiple modelling and query languages and has …

An overview of Modest models and tools for real stochastic timed systems

A Hartmanns - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.09881, 2022 - arxiv.org
We depend on the safe, reliable, and timely operation of cyber-physical systems ranging
from smart grids to avionics components. Many of them involve time-dependent behaviours …

Lightweight statistical model checking in nondeterministic continuous time

PR D'Argenio, A Hartmanns, S Sedwards - International Symposium on …, 2018 - Springer
Lightweight scheduler sampling brings statistical model checking to nondeterministic
formalisms with undiscounted properties, in constant memory. Its direct application to …

A Modest approach to Markov automata

Y Butkova, A Hartmanns, H Hermanns - ACM Transactions on Modeling …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Markov automata are a compositional modelling formalism with continuous stochastic time,
discrete probabilities, and nondeterministic choices. In this article, we present extensions to …

[HTML][HTML] Automated compositional importance splitting

CE Budde, PR D'Argenio, A Hartmanns - Science of Computer …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the formal verification of stochastic systems, statistical model checking uses simulation to
overcome the state space explosion problem of probabilistic model checking. Yet its runtime …