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Bernd Finkbeiner

Bernd Finkbeiner

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Computer Science

D-Index
34
Citations
5241
World Ranking
12134
National Ranking
600

Overview

Bernd Finkbeiner is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and has a substantial body of work centered in computer science, with a focus on formal methods and verification. Their research intersects several subfields including computational theory and mathematics, artificial intelligence, software engineering, computer networks and communications, and hardware architecture.

The main topics of Bernd Finkbeiner's work include:

  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Logic, Programming, and Type Systems
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • Embedded Systems Design Techniques
  • Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies

Frequent co-authors in Finkbeiner's research include Raven Beutner, Niklas Metzger, Jan Baumeister, Julian Siber, and Noemi Passing. Their collaborations indicate a strong network within their research community.

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Bernd Finkbeiner are:

  • RVHyper: A Runtime Verification Tool for Temporal Hyperproperties, 2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • A Truly Robust Signal Temporal Logic: Monitoring Safety Properties of Interacting Cyber-Physical Systems under Uncertain Observation, 2022, Algorithms
  • The Reactive Synthesis Competition (SYNTCOMP): 2018-2021, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Bernd Finkbeiner's work has been published frequently in several venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Finkbeiner has also contributed to book publications with Springer Science+Business Media. These include titles such as:

  • Runtime Verification (2020)
  • NASA Formal Methods (2022)
  • Formal Methods (2024)

Overall, the research work of Bernd Finkbeiner demonstrates a comprehensive engagement with formal methods, runtime verification, temporal logic, and software tools within computer science. Their publication record reflects an active participation in advancing verification technologies and software reliability.

Best Publications

  • LOLA: runtime monitoring of synchronous systems

    B. D'Angelo;S. Sankaranarayanan;C. Sanchez;W. Robinson

  • Temporal Logics for Hyperproperties

    Michael R. Clarkson;Bernd Finkbeiner;Masoud Koleini;Kristopher K. Micinski

  • Uniform distributed synthesis

    B. Finkbeiner;S. Schewe

  • Algorithms for Model Checking HyperLTL and HyperCTL

    Bernd Finkbeiner;Markus N. Rabe;César Sánchez

  • Collecting Statistics Over Runtime Executions

    Bernd Finkbeiner;Sriram Sankaranarayanan;Henny B. Sipma

  • Bounded synthesis

    Sven Schewe;Bernd Finkbeiner

  • Verifying Temporal Properties of Reactive Systems: A STeP Tutorial

    Nikolaj S. Bjørner;Anca Browne;Michael A. Colón;Bernd Finkbeiner

  • Checking Finite Traces Using Alternating Automata

    Bernd Finkbeiner;Henny Sipma

  • Directed model checking with distance-preserving abstractions

    Klaus Dräger;Bernd Finkbeiner;Andreas Podelski

  • Collecting Statistics over Runtime Executions

    Bernd Finkbeiner;Sriram Sankaranarayanan;Henny Sipma

  • Model checking information flow in reactive systems

    Rayna Dimitrova;Bernd Finkbeiner;Máté Kovács;Markus N. Rabe

  • Bounded Synthesis

    Unknown

  • BoSy: An Experimentation Framework for Bounded Synthesis

    Peter Faymonville;Bernd Finkbeiner;Leander Tentrup

  • A Stream-Based Specification Language for Network Monitoring

    Peter Faymonville;Bernd Finkbeiner;Sebastian Schirmer;Hazem Torfah

  • StreamLAB: Stream-based Monitoring of Cyber-Physical Systems

    Peter Faymonville;Bernd Finkbeiner;Malte Schledjewski;Maximilian Schwenger

  • Encodings of Bounded Synthesis

    Peter Faymonville;Bernd Finkbeiner;Markus N. Rabe;Leander Tentrup

  • Directed Model Checking with Distance-Preserving Abstractions

    Klaus Dräge;Bernd Finkbeiner;Andreas Podelski;Antti Valmari

  • Synthesis of asynchronous systems

    Sven Schewe;Bernd Finkbeiner

  • Verifying Hyperliveness.

    Norine Coenen;Bernd Finkbeiner;César Sánchez;Leander Tentrup

  • Slicing abstractions

    Ingo Brückner;Klaus Dräger;Bernd Finkbeiner;Heike Wehrheim

  • Bounded synthesis

    Unknown

  • Monitoring Hyperproperties.

    Bernd Finkbeiner;Christopher Hahn;Marvin Stenger;Leander Tentrup

  • A Temporal Logic for Hyperproperties

    Bernd Finkbeiner;Markus N. Rabe;César Sánchez

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog
Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Henny B. Sipma
Henny B. Sipma Aarno Labs
Andreas Podelski
Andreas Podelski University of Freiburg
Zohar Manna
Zohar Manna Stanford University
Helmut Seidl
Helmut Seidl Technical University of Munich
Grigore Rosu
Grigore Rosu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Holger Hermanns
Holger Hermanns Saarland University
Klaus Havelund
Klaus Havelund Jet Propulsion Lab
Gilles Barthe
Gilles Barthe Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Roderick Bloem
Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology

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