Arnd Hartmanns, Sebastian Junges, Tim Quatmann, and Maximilian Weininger, “The Revised Practitioner’s Guide to MDP Model Checking Algorithms,” STTT, 2026.
Milan Ceska, Sebastian Junges, Luko van der Maas, Filip Macák, and Tim Quatmann, “Fast Computation of Conditional Probabilities in MDPs and Markov Chain
Families,” in CAV, 2026.
Roman Andriushchenko, Alexander Bork, Milan Ceska, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Filip Macák, “Search and explore: symbiotic policy synthesis in POMDPs,” Formal Methods Syst. Des., no. 1, 2026.
Linus Heck, Filip Macák, Milan Ceska, and Sebastian Junges, “Constrained and Robust Policy Synthesis with Satisfiability-Modulo-Probabilistic-Model-Checking,” in AAAI, 2026.
Antonina Skurka, Luko van der Maas, Sebastian Junges, and Hazem Torfah, “Learning Robust Markov Models for Safe Runtime Monitoring,” in AAMAS, 2026.
Linus Heck, Filip Macák, Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Ceska, and Sebastian Junges, “Shields to Guarantee Probabilistic Safety in MDPs,” in CAV, 2026.
Loes Kruger, Paul Kobialka, Andrea Pferscher, Einar Broch Johnsen, Sebastian Junges, and Jurriaan Rot, “Incremental Fingerprinting in an Open World,” in CSF, 2026.
Loes Kruger, Sebastian Junges, and Jurriaan Rot, “Error-awareness Accelerates Active Automata Learning,” in FM, 2026.
Matthias Volk, Linus Heck, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Tim Quatmann, “Probabilistic Model Checking Taken by Storm,” in FM (Tutorials), 2026.
2025
Bettina Könighofer, Roderick Bloem, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, and Stefan Pranger, “Shields for Safe Reinforcement Learning,” Commun. ACM, no. 11, 2025.
Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Ceska, Filip Macák, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “An Oracle-Guided Approach to Constrained Policy Synthesis Under Uncertainty,” J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2025.
Kazuki Watanabe, Sebastian Junges, Jurriaan Rot, and Ichiro Hasuo, “A Unifying Approach to Product Constructions for Quantitative Temporal
Inference,” Proc. ACM Program. Lang., no. OOPSLA1, 2025.
Merlijn Krale, Wietze Koops, Sebastian Junges, Thiago D. Simão, and Nils Jansen, “Tighter Value-Function Approximations for POMDPs,” in AAMAS, 2025.
Luko van der Maas and Sebastian Junges, “Learning Verified Monitors for Hidden Markov Models,” in ATVA, 2025.
Linus Heck, Tim Quatmann, Jip Spel, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Sebastian Junges, “Generalized Parameter Lifting: Finer Abstractions for Parametric Markov
Chains,” in ATVA, 2025.
Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Ceska, Sebastian Junges, and Filip Macák, “Small Decision Trees for MDPs with Deductive Synthesis,” in CAV, 2025.
Lina Gerlach, Tobias Winkler, Erika Ábrahám, Borzoo Bonakdarpour, and Sebastian Junges, “Efficient Probabilistic Model Checking for Relational
Reachability,” in CAV, 2025.
Thom Badings, Wietze Koops, Sebastian Junges, and Nils Jansen, “Policy Verification in Stochastic Dynamical Systems Using
Logarithmic Neural Certificates,” in CAV, 2025.
Maris Galesloot, Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Ceska, Sebastian Junges, and Nils Jansen, “rfPG: Robust Finite-Memory Policy Gradients for Hidden-Model POMDPs,” in IJCAI, 2025.
Ameesh Shah, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Sebastian Junges, and Sanjit A. Seshia, “Learning Formal Specifications from Membership and Preference Queries,” in NeuS, 2025.
Marck van der Vegt, Kazuki Watanabe, Ichiro Hasuo, and Sebastian Junges, “Compositional Verification of Almost-Sure Büchi Objectives
in MDPs,” in RP, 2025.
Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Ceska, Debraj Chakraborty, Sebastian Junges, Jan Kretinsky, and Filip Macák, “Symbiotic Local Search for Small Decision Tree Policies in MDPs,” in UAI, 2025.
2024
Sebastian Junges et al., “Parameter synthesis for Markov models: covering the parameter space,” Formal Methods Syst. Des., no. 1, 2024.
Maris Galesloot, Thiago D. Simao, Sebastian Junges, and Nils Jansen, “Factored Online Planning in Many-Agent POMDPs,” in AAAI, 2024.
Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Češka, Sebastian Junges, and Filip Macák, “Policies Grow on Trees: Model Checking Families of MDPs,” in ATVA, 2024.
Kazuki Watanabe, Marck van der Vegt, Sebastian Junges, and Ichiro Hasuo, “Compositional Value Iteration with Pareto Caching,” in CAV, 2024.
Marnix Suilen, Marck van der Vegt, and Sebastian Junges, “A PSPACE Algorithm for Almost-Sure Rabin Objectives in Multi-Environment MDPs,” in CONCUR, 2024.
Loes Kruger, Sebastian Junges, and Jurriaan Rot, “State Matching and Multiple References in Adaptive Active Automata Learning,” in FM, 2024.
Sebastian Junges, Sanjit A. Seshia, and Hazem Torfah, “Active Learning of Runtime Monitors Under Uncertainty,” in IFM, 2024.
(short paper)
Eline Bovy, Marnix Suilen, Sebastian Junges, and Nils Jansen, “Imprecise Probabilities Meet Partial Observability: Game Semantics for Robust POMDPs,” in IJCAI, 2024.
Wietze Koops, Sebastian Junges, and Nils Jansen, “Approximate Dec-POMDP Solving Using Multi-Agent A*,” in IJCAI, 2024.
Christian Hensel, Sebastian Junges, Tim Quatmann, and Matthias Volk, “Riding the Storm in a Probabilistic Model Checking Landscape,” in Principles of Verification, 2024.
Loes Kruger, Sebastian Junges, and Jurriaan Rot, “Small Test Suites for Active Automata Learning,” in TACAS, 2024.
Thom S. Badings, Matthias Volk, Sebastian Junges, Mariëlle Stoelinga, and Nils Jansen, “CTMCs with Imprecisely Timed Observations,” in TACAS, 2024.
Kazuki Watanabe, Marck van der Vegt, Ichiro Hasuo, Jurriaan Rot, and Sebastian Junges, “Pareto Curves for Compositionally Model Checking String Diagrams of
MDPs,” in TACAS, 2024.
2023
Steven Carr, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, and Ufuk Topcu, “Safe Reinforcement Learning via Shielding for POMDPs,” in AAAI, 2023.
Thom Badings, Sebastian Junges, Ahmadreza Marandi, Ufuk Topcu, and Nils Jansen, “Efficient Sensitivity Analysis for Parametric Robust Markov Chains,” in CAV, 2023.
Roman Andriushchenko, Alexander Bork, Milan Češka, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Filip Macák, “Search and Explore: Symbiotic Policy Synthesis in POMDPs,” in CAV, 2023.
Wietze Koops, Sebastian Junges, Nils Jansen, and Thiago Simao, “Recursive Small-Step Multi-Agent A* for Dec-POMDPs,” in IJCAI, 2023.
Arnd Hartmanns, Sebastian Junges, Tim Quatmann, and Maximilian Weininger, “A Practitioner’s Guide to MDP Model Checking Algorithms,” in TACAS, 2023.
Kevin Batz, Mingshuai Chen, Sebastian Junges, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Christoph Matheja, “Probabilistic Program Verification via Inductive Synthesis of Inductive Invariants,” in TACAS, 2023.
Marck van der Vegt, Nils Jansen, and Sebastian Junges, “Robust Almost-Sure Reachability in Multi-Environment MDPs,” in TACAS, 2023.
2022
Christian Hensel, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Tim Quatmann, and Matthias Volk, “The Probabilistic Model Checker Storm,” STTT, no. 4, 2022.
Thom Badings, Murat Cubuktepe, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Ufuk Topcu, “Scenario-Based Verification of Uncertain Parametric MDPs,” STTT, no. 5, 2022.
Murat Cubuktepe, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Ufuk Topcu, “Convex Optimization for Parameter Synthesis in MDPs,” IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., no. 12, 2022.
Sebastian Junges and Jurriaan Rot, “Learning Language Intersections,” in A Journey from Process Algebra via Timed Automata to Model Learning, 2022.
Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Parameter Synthesis in Markov Models: A Gentle Survey,” in Principles of Systems Design, 2022.
Hazem Torfah, Carol Xie, Sebastian Junges, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, and Sanjit A. Seshia, “Learning Monitorable Operational Design Domains for Assured Autonomy,” in ATVA, 2022.
Sebastian Junges and Matthijs T. J. Spaan, “Abstraction-Refinement for Hierarchical Probabilistic Models,” in CAV, 2022.
Thom Badings, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, Marielle Stoelinga, and Matthias Volk, “Sampling-Based Verification of CTMCs with Uncertain Rates,” in CAV, 2022.
Edward Kim, Jay Shenoy, Sebastian Junges, Daniel J. Fremont, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, and Sanjit Seshia, “Querying Labelled Data with Scenario Programs for Sim-to-Real Validation,” in ICCPS, 2022.
Dennis Gross, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, and Guillermo A. Pérez, “COOL-MC: A Comprehensive Tool for Reinforcement Learning and Model
Checking,” in SETTA, 2022.
Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Češka, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Inductive Synthesis of Finite-State Controllers for POMDPs,” in UAI, 2022.
Jip Spel, Linus Heck, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Joshua Moerman, “Gradient-Descent for Randomized Controllers under Partial Observability,” in VMCAI, 2022.
2021
Milan Češka, Christian Hensel, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Counterexample-guided Inductive Synthesis for Probabilistic Systems,” Formal Asp. Comput., no. 4-5, 2021.
Tim Quatmann, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Markov Automata with Multiple Objectives,” FMSD, 2021.
Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Guillermo A. Pérez, and Tobias Winkler, “The complexity of reachability in parametric Markov decision processes,” J. Comput. Syst. Sci., 2021.
Leonore Winterer et al., “Strategy Synthesis for POMDPs in Robot Planning via Game-Based Abstractions,” IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., no. 3, 2021.
Murat Cubuktepe, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, Ahmadreza Marandi, Marnix Suilen, and Ufuk Topcu, “Robust Finite-State Controllers for Uncertain POMDPs,” in AAAI, 2021.
Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Češka, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Simon Stupinsky, “PAYNT: A Tool for Inductive Synthesis of Probabilistic Programs,” in CAV, 2021.
Steven Holtzen, Sebastian Junges, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Todd Millstein, Sanjit A. Seshia, and Guy Van den Broeck, “Model Checking Finite-Horizon Markov Chains with Probabilistic Inference,” in CAV, 2021.
Sebastian Junges, Nils Jansen, and Sanjit A. Seshia, “Enforcing Almost-Sure Reachability in POMDPs,” in CAV, 2021.
Sebastian Junges, Hazem Torfah, and Sanjit A. Seshia, “Runtime Monitors for Markov Decision Processes,” in CAV, 2021.
Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Sebastian Junges, Daniel J. Fremont, and Sanjit Seshia, “Entropy-Guided Control Improvisation,” in RSS, 2021.
Hazem Torfah, Sebastian Junges, Daniel Fremont, and Sanjit A. Seshia, “Formal Analysis of AI-Based Autonomy: From Modeling to Runtime Assurance,” in RV, 2021.
Jip Spel, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Finding Provably Optimal Markov Chains,” in TACAS, 2021.
Roman Andriushchenko, Milan Češka, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Inductive Synthesis for Probabilistic Programs Reaches New Horizons,” in TACAS, 2021.
2020
Sebastian Junges, “Parameter synthesis in Markov models,” PhD thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2020.
Christel Baier, Christian Hensel, Lisa Hutschenreiter, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Joachim Klein, “Parametric Markov chains: PCTL complexity and fraction-free Gaussian
elimination,” Inf. Comput., 2020.
Arnd Hartmanns, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Tim Quatmann, “Multi-cost Bounded Tradeoff Analysis in MDP,” J. Autom. Reason., no. 7, 2020.
Alexander Bork, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Tim Quatmann, “Verification of Indefinite-Horizon POMDPs,” in ATVA, 2020.
Kevin Batz, Sebastian Junges, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja, and Philipp Schröer, “PrIC3: Property Directed Reachability for MDPs,” in CAV, 2020.
Nils Jansen, Bettina Könighofer, Sebastian Junges, Alex Serban, and Roderick Bloem, “Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Probabilistic Shields,” in CONCUR, 2020.
Murat Cubuktepe, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Ufuk Topcu, “Scenario-Based Verification of Uncertain MDPs,” in TACAS, 2020.
2019
Majdi Ghadhab, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Matthias Kuntz, and Matthias Volk, “Safety analysis for vehicle guidance systems with dynamic fault trees,” Rel. Eng. and Sys. Safety, 2019.
Jip Spel, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Are Parametric Markov Chains Monotonic?,” in ATVA, 2019.
Tobias Winkler, Sebastian Junges, Guillermo A. Pérez, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “On the Complexity of Reachability in Parametric Markov Decision Processes,” in CONCUR, 2019.
Milan Češka, Christian Hensel, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Counterexample-Driven Synthesis for Probabilistic Program Sketches,” in FM, 2019.
Milan Češka, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Shepherding Hordes of Markov Chains,” in TACAS, 2019.
Milan Češka, Christian Dehnert, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Model Repair Revamped - - On the Automated Synthesis of Markov Chains
-,” in From Reactive Systems to Cyber-Physical Systems, 2019.
2018
Matthias Volk, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Fast Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis by Model Checking Techniques,” IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, no. 1, 2018.
Murat Cubuktepe, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Ufuk Topcu, “Synthesis in pMDPs: A Tale of 1001 Parameters,” in ATVA, 2018.
Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Mariëlle Stoelinga, and Matthias Volk, “One Net Fits All - A Unifying Semantics of Dynamic Fault Trees Using
GSPNs,” in Petri Nets, 2018.
Sebastian Junges, Nils Jansen, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Ufuk Topcu, Ruohan Zhang, and Mary M. Hayhoe, “Model Checking for Safe Navigation Among Humans,” in QEST, 2018.
Arnd Hartmanns, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Tim Quatmann, “Multi-cost Bounded Reachability in MDP,” in TACAS, 2018.
Sebastian Junges et al., “Finite-State Controllers of POMDPs using Parameter Synthesis,” in UAI, 2018.
2017
Sebastian Junges, Dennis Guck, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Arend Rensink, and Mariëlle Stoelinga, “Fault trees on a diet: automated reduction by graph rewriting,” Formal Asp. Comput., no. 4, 2017.
Christian Dehnert, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Matthias Volk, “A storm is Coming: A Modern Probabilistic Model Checker,” in CAV, 2017.
Tim Quatmann, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Markov Automata with Multiple Objectives,” in CAV, 2017.
Leonore Winterer et al., “Motion planning under partial observability using game-based abstraction,” in CDC, 2017.
Majdi Ghadhab, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Matthias Kuntz, and Matthias Volk, “Model-Based Safety Analysis for Vehicle Guidance Systems,” in SAFECOMP, 2017.
Carlos E. Budde, Christian Dehnert, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Arnd Hartmanns, Sebastian Junges, and Andrea Turrini, “JANI: Quantitative Model and Tool Interaction,” in TACAS, 2017.
Murat Cubuktepe et al., “Sequential Convex Programming for the Efficient Verification of Parametric
MDPs,” in TACAS, 2017.
2016
Tim Quatmann, Christian Dehnert, Nils Jansen, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Parameter Synthesis for Markov Models: Faster Than Ever,” in ATVA, 2016.
Sebastian Junges, Dennis Guck, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Mariëlle Stoelinga, “Uncovering Dynamic Fault Trees,” in DSN, 2016.
Christian Dehnert et al., “Parameter Synthesis for Probabilistic Systems,” in MBMV, 2016.
Matthias Volk, Sebastian Junges, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Advancing Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis - Get Succinct State Spaces
Fast and Synthesise Failure Rates,” in SAFECOMP, 2016.
Christian Dombrowski, Sebastian Junges, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and James Gross, “Model-Checking Assisted Protocol Design for Ultra-reliable Low-Latency
Wireless Networks,” in SRDS, 2016.
Sebastian Junges, Nils Jansen, Christian Dehnert, Ufuk Topcu, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, “Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning for MDPs,” in TACAS, 2016.
Sebastian Junges, Nils Jansen, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Ufuk Topcu, “Probabilistic Verification for Cognitive Models,” 2016, no. FS-16.
2015
Christian Dehnert et al., “PROPhESY: A PRObabilistic ParamEter SYnthesis Tool,” in CAV, 2015.
Florian Corzilius, Gereon Kremer, Sebastian Junges, Stefan Schupp, and Erika Ábrahám, “SMT-RAT: An Open Source C++ Toolbox for Strategic and Parallel
SMT Solving,” in SAT, 2015.
Sebastian Junges, Dennis Guck, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Arend Rensink, and Mariëlle Stoelinga, “Fault Trees on a Diet - - Automated Reduction by Graph Rewriting -,” in SETTA, 2015.
2014
Dimitri Bohlender, Harold Bruintjes, Sebastian Junges, Jens Katelaan, Viet Yen Nguyen, and Thomas Noll, “A Review of Statistical Model Checking Pitfalls on Real-Time Stochastic
Models,” in ISoLA, 2014.
2013
Sebastian Junges, Ulrich Loup, Florian Corzilius, and Erika Ábrahám, “On Gröbner Bases in the Context of Satisfiability-Modulo-Theories
Solving over the Real Numbers,” in CAI, 2013.
2012
Florian Corzilius, Ulrich Loup, Sebastian Junges, and Erika Ábrahám, “SMT-RAT: An SMT-Compliant Nonlinear Real Arithmetic Toolbox - (Tool
Presentation),” in SAT, 2012.