Publications

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Authors of publications in the model checking community are ordered alphabetically (with three exceptions ordered by contribution). In the planning, visualization, and robotics community authors are listed by contribution.

YearPublication
2026Lukas König, Franziska Henze, Christian Heinzemann, Michaela Klauck, Alberto Griggio, Stefano Tonetta :
Exploiting Formal Verification for the Systematic Discovery of Corner Cases in a Behavior Planner for Automated Driving
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2026
2026Lukas König, Christian Schildwächter, Michaela Klauck, Christian Heinzemann :
Driving by Disproof: A Practical Model Checking Approach to Fleet Coordination
TACAS 2026
2025Matteo Palmas, Michaela Klauck, Ralph Lange, Enrico Ghiorzi, Armando Tacchella:
Translating Behavior Trees to Petri Nets for Model Checking
MODELS 2025
2025Christian Henkel, Marco Lampacrescia, Michaela Klauck, Matteo Morelli:
AS2FM: Enabling Statistical Model Checking of ROS 2 Systems for Robust Autonomy
IROS 2025
2025Holger Hermanns, Michaela Klauck, Govinda Sicheneder:
Bluetooth Low Energie for Safety-Critical Real-Time Applications
Engineering Safe and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems 2025, Springer LNCS
2025Michaela Klauck, Christian Henkel, Marco Lampacrescia, Ginny Jorgensen:
Surveying Deliberation Practices and Methodological Needs in Robotics Software Engineering
TAROS 2025
2025Matteo Palmas, Varun Bhatt, Shihan Zhao, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Ralph Lange, Michaela Klauck :
Efficient Quality Diversity Optimization with Monte Carlo Bayesian Sampling
GECCO 2025
2025Enrico Ghiorzi, Christian Henkel, Matteo Palmas, Michaela Klauck, Armando Tacchella:
Execution Semantics of Behavior Trees in Robotic Applications
arXiv
2024Charlie Street, Yazz Warsame, Masoumeh Mansouri, Michaela Klauck, Christian Henkel, Marco Lampacrescia, Matteo Palmas, Ralph Lange, Enrico Ghiorzi, Armando Tacchella, Razane Azrou, Matteo Morelli, Ginny Chen, Danielle Wallis, Stefano Bernagozzi, Stefano Rosa, Marco Randazzo, Sofia Feraci, Lorenzo Natale :
Towards a Verifiable Toolchain for Robotics
AAAI Fall Symposium 2024
Best Paper Award
2024Marco Lampacrescia, Michaela Klauck, Matteo Palmas:
Towards Verifying Robotic Systems using Statistical Model Checking in STORM
AISoLA 2024
2024Michaela Klauck, Ralph Lange, Christian Henkel, Selma Kchir, Matteo Palmas:
Towards Robust Autonomous Robots using Statistical Model Checking
SPAR 2024, European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2024
2024Lukas König, Christian Heinzemann, Alberto Griggio, Michaela Klauck, Alessandro Cimatti, Franziska Henze, Stefano Tonetta, Stefan Küperkoch, Dennis Fassbender, Michael Hanselmann:
Towards Safe Autonomous Driving: Model Checking a Behavior Planner during Development
TACAS 2024
Distinguished Artifact Award
2023Timo P. Gros, Joschka Groß, Daniel Höller, Jörg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck, Hendrik Meerkamp, Nicola J. Müller, Lukas Schaller, Verena Wolf:
DSMC Evaluation Stages: Fostering Robust and Safe Behavior in Deep Reinforcement Learning - Extended Version
TOMACS 2023
2023Timo P. Gros, Holger Hermanns, Jörg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck, Marcel Steinmetz:
Analyzing neural network behavior through deep statistical model checking
STTT 2023
2022Arnd Hartmanns, Michaela Klauck:
The modest state of learning, sampling, and verifying strategies
ISoLA 2022
2022Michaela Klauck:
On the Connection of Probabilistic Model Checking, Planning, and Learning for System Verification
PhD Thesis at Saarland University
2022Timo P. Gros, Holger Hermanns, Joerg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck, Maximilian A. Köhl, Verena Wolf:
MoGym: Using Formal Models for Training and Verifying Decision-making Agents
CAV 2022
2022David Groß, Michaela Klauck, Timo P. Gros, Marcel Steinmetz, Jörg Hoffmann, Stefan Gumhold:
Glyph-Based Visual Analysis of Q-Learning Based Action Policy Ensembles on Racetrack
IV 2022
Best Paper Award
2021Michaela Klauck, Holger Hermanns:
A Modest Approach to Dynamic Heuristic Search in Probabilistic Model Checking
QEST 2021
2021Timo P. Gros, Daniel Höller, Jörg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck, Hendrik Meerkamp, Verena Wolf:
DSMC Evaluation Stages: Fostering Robust and Safe Behavior in Deep Reinforcement Learning
QEST 2021
2021Maximilian A. Köhl, Michaela Klauck, Holger Hermanns:
Momba: JANI meets Python
TACAS (2) 2021
2020Christel Baier, Maria Christakis, Timo P. Gros, David Groß, Stefan Gumhold, Holger Hermanns, Jörg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck:
Lab Conditions for Research on Explainable Automated Decisions
TAILOR 2020
Racetrack Website
2020Timo P. Gros, David Groß, Stefan Gumhold, Jörg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck, Marcel Steinmetz:
TraceVis: Towards Visualization for Deep Statistical Model Checking
ISoLA (4) 2020
2020Carlos E Budde, Arnd Hartmanns, Michaela Klauck, Jan Křetínský, David Parker, Tim Quatmann, Andrea Turrini, Zhen Zhang:
On Correctness, Precision, and Performance in Quantitative Verification
ISoLA (4) 2020
2020Rasha Faqeh, Christof Fetzer, Holger Hermanns, Jörg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck, Maximilian A. Köhl, Marcel Steinmetz, Christoph Weidenbach:
Towards Dynamic Dependable Systems Through Evidence-Based Continuous Certification
ISoLA (2) 2020
2020Christel Baier, Clemens Dubslaff, Holger Hermanns, Michaela Klauck, Sascha Klüppelholz, Maximilian A. Köhl:
Components in Probabilistic Systems: Suitable by Construction
ISoLA (1) 2020
2020Timo P. Gros, Holger Hermanns, Jörg Hoffmann, Michaela Klauck, Marcel Steinmetz:
Deep Statistical Model Checking
FORTE 2020
Talk Video
2020Michaela Klauck, Marcel Steinmetz, Jörg Hoffmann, Holger Hermanns:
Bridging the Gap Between Probabilistic Model Checking and Probabilistic Planning: Survey, Compilations, and Empirical Comparison
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 68, 247-310, 2020, (first link includes online appendix)
2020Jörg Hoffmann, Holger Hermanns, Michaela Klauck, Marcel Steinmetz, Erez Karpas, Daniele Magazzeni:
Let’s Learn their Language? A Case for Planning with Automata-Network Languages from Model Checking
AAAI 2020: 13569-13575, Senior Member Track
2019Arnd Hartmanns, Michaela Klauck, David Parker, Tim Quatmann, Enno Ruijters:
The Quantitative Verification Benchmark Set
TACAS (1) 2019.
2019Ernst Moritz Hahn, Arnd Hartmanns, Christian Hensel, Michaela Klauck, Joachim Klein, Jan Kretínský, David Parker, Tim Quatmann, Enno Ruijters, Marcel Steinmetz:
The 2019 Comparison of Tools for the Analysis of Quantitative Formal Models - (QComp 2019 Competition Report)
TACAS (3) 2019.
2018Michaela Klauck, Marcel Steinmetz, Jörg Hoffmann, Holger Hermanns:
Compiling Probabilistic Model Checking into Probabilistic Planning ICAPS 2018.
Technical Report
The current version of the script to translate JANI MDP models with a restricted syntax into PPDDL used in these papers can be found here.
2017Michaela Klauck, Yusuke Sugano, Andreas Bulling:
Noticeable or Distractive? A Design Space for Gaze-Contingent User Interface Notifications
CHI 2017.