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Wednesday, Sep. 20, 2023

Keynote: Joost-Pieter Katoen (joint with all conferences)
(09:00-10:00 CEST)

Coffee Break
(10:00-10:20 CEST)

Session: Machine Learning
(10:20-12:20 CEST)

  • Symbolic Semantics for Probabilistic Programs
    Erik Voogd, Einar Broch Johnsen, Alexandra Silva, Zachary J. Susag and Andrzej Wasowski
    (full paper)
  • Data-driven Inference of Chemical Reaction Networks via Graph-based Variational Autoencoders
    Luca Bortolussi, Francesca Cairoli, Julia Klein and Tatjana Petrov
    (work in progress paper)
  • On the Trade-off Between Efficiency and Precision of Neural Abstraction
    Alec Edwards, Mirco Giacobbe and Alessandro Abate
    (full paper)
  • Probabilistic Counterexample Guidance for Safer Reinforcement Learning
    Xiaotong Ji and Antonio Filieri
    (full paper)
  • Model Abstraction and Conditional Sampling with Score-Based Diffusion Model
    Davide Scassola, Francesca Cairoli, Francesco Giacomarra and Luca Bortolussi
    (work in progress paper)

Lunch Break
(12:20-13:45 CEST)

Boat trip on Scheldt river
(13:45-18:00 CEST)

Conference Dinner
(18:00-20:00 CEST)

Thursday, Sep. 21, 2023

Keynote: Jaco van de Pol (joint with all conferences)
(09:00-10:00 CEST)

Coffee Break
(10:00-10:20 CEST)

Session: Performance
(10:20-12:20 CEST)

  • Skipping and Fetching: Insights on Non-Conventional Product-Form Solutions
    Diletta Olliaro, Andrea Marin, Gianfranco Balbo and Matteo Sereno
    (full paper)
  • Analysis of an epoch commit protocol for distributed processing systems
    Paul Ezhilchelvan, Isi Mitrani and Jim Webber
    (full paper)
  • Causal Reversibility Implies Time Reversibility
    Marco Bernardo, Ivan Lanese, Andrea Marin, Claudio Antares Mezzina, Sabina Rossi and Claudio Sacerdoti Coen
    (full paper)
  • Quasi-Deterministic Burstiness Bound for Aggregate of Independent, Periodic Flows
    Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaee, Anne Bouillard and Jean-Yves Le Boudec
    (full paper)

Lunch Break
(12:20-13:45 CEST)

Session: Markov Chains
(13:45-15:45 CEST)

  • An MM Algorithm to Estimate Parameters in Continuous-time Markov Chains
    Giovanni Bacci, Anna Ingolfsdottir, Kim Guldstrand Larsen and Raphaël Reynouard
    (full paper)
  • Matching Distributions under Structural Constraints
    Aaron Bies, Holger Hermanns, Maximilian Alexander Köhl and Andreas Schmidt
    (full paper)
  • Equilibrium Analysis of Markov Regenerative Processes
    András Horváth, Marco Paolieri and Enrico Vicario
    (full paper)
  • On the Maximum Queue Length of the Hyper Scalable Load Balancing Push Strategy
    Benny Van Houdt
    (full paper)

Coffee Break
(15:45-16:00 CEST)

Keynote: David Parker
Multi-Agent Verification and Control with Probabilistic Model Checking (PDF)
(16:00-17:00 CEST)

Session: Systems Biology
(17:00-17:15 CEST)

  • Modeling uncertain biomass composition in genome-scale metabolic models with Flexible Nets
    Teresa Joven, Jorge Lázaro, and Jorge Júlvez
    (work in progress paper)
Friday, Sep. 22, 2023

Keynote: Ahmed Bouajjani (joint with CONCUR)
(09:00-10:00 CEST)

Coffee Break
(10:00-10:20 CEST)

Session: Verification I
(10:20-12:20 CEST)

  • Deductive Controller Synthesis for Probabilistic Hyperproperties
    Roman Andriushchenko, Ezio Bartocci, Milan Češka, Francesco Pontiggia and Sarah Sallinger
    (full paper)
  • Introducing Asynchronicity to Probabilistic Hyperproperties
    Carolina Gerlach, Oyendrila Dobe, Erika Ábrahám, Ezio Bartocci and Borzoo Bonakdarpour
    (full paper)
  • Jajapy: a learning library for stochastic models
    Raphaël Reynouard, Anna Ingolfsdottir and Giovanni Bacci
    (full paper)
  • STAMINA in C++: Modernizing an Infinite-State Probabilistic Model Checker
    Joshua Jeppson, Matthias Volk, Bryant Israelsen, Riley Roberts, Andrew Williams, Lukas Buecherl, Chris Myers, Hao Zheng, Chris Winstead and Zhen Zhang
    (short paper)
  • Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence
    Tatjana Petrov, Matej Hajnal, Julia Klein, David Šafránek and Morgane Nouvian
    (journal-first presentation)

Lunch Break
(12:20-13:45 CEST)

Keynote: Frans A. Oliehoek
(13:45-14:45 CEST)

Session: Verification II
(14:45-15:45 CEST)

  • Verification of Quantum Systems using Barrier Certificates
    Marco Lewis, Paolo Zuliani and Sadegh Soudjani
    (full paper)
  • A Bounded Model Checking Technique for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems
    YoungMin Kwon, Eunhee Kim and Gul Agha
    (full paper)

Coffee Break
(15:45-16:00 CEST)

Session: Automata
(16:00-17:30 CEST)

  • Max-entropy sampling for deterministic timed automata under linear duration constraints
    Nicolas Basset and Benoit Barbot
    (full paper)
  • Comparing Two Approaches to Include Stochasticity in Hybrid Automata
    Lisa Willemsen, Anne Remke and Erika Ábrahám
    (full paper)
  • Formal Controller Synthesis for Markov Jump Linear Systems with Uncertain Dynamics
    Luke Rickard, Thom Badings, Licio Romao and Alessandro Abate
    (full paper)
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