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Bernhard Steffen

Bernhard Steffen

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Computer Science
Germany
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
73
Citations
15910
World Ranking
1622
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Bernhard Steffen is primarily affiliated with TU Dortmund University in Germany. Their research work spans various aspects of computer science, focusing particularly on artificial intelligence, software, computational theory and mathematics, information systems, and computer networks and communications.

The main fields of study for Bernhard Steffen encompass:

  • Computer Science

Their work includes significant contributions to subfields such as:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Bernhard Steffen's research topics cover a wide range of areas, including:

  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Machine Learning and Algorithms
  • Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
  • Software Engineering Research

Recent published papers by Bernhard Steffen include:

  • Microscopic insights into pedestrian motion through a bottleneck, resolving spatial and temporal variations, 2022, Collective Dynamics
  • Algebraic aggregation of random forests: towards explainability and rapid evaluation, 2021, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
  • The molecular composition of extractable soil microbial compounds and their contribution to soil organic matter vary with soil depth and tree species, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Towards Explainability in Machine Learning: The Formal Methods Way, 2020, IT Professional
  • The RERS challenge: towards controllable and scalable benchmark synthesis, 2021, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bernhard Steffen include:

  • Tiziana Margaria
  • Alexander Bainczyk
  • Daniel Busch
  • Tim Tegeler
  • Alnis Murtovi

Bernhard Steffen has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications found in:

  • International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IT Professional
  • Collective Dynamics
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Their book publications are primarily associated with Springer Science+Business Media, including titles such as:

  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (2021)
  • Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality (2023)
  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Practice (2022)
  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Engineering Principles (2020)
  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Verification Principles (2020)
  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Tools and Trends (2021)
  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Applications (2020)
  • Variable Neighborhood Search (2020)
  • Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2019 (2020)
  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Verification Principles (2022)
  • Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Cultural Heritage, Tourism, Autonomous Vehicles, and Intelligent Agents (2021)
  • Cross-Cultural Design. Applications in Arts, Learning, Well-being, and Social Development (2021)
  • Model Checking, Synthesis, and Learning (2021)
  • Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Adaptation and Learning (2022)
  • Information Security and Cryptology (2021)

Additionally, Bernhard Steffen contributed to a publication by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled Real Time and Such: Essays Dedicated to Wang Yi to Celebrate His Scientific Career (2024).

Best Publications

  • The concurrency workbench: a semantics-based tool for the verification of concurrent systems

    Rance Cleaveland;Joachim Parrow;Bernhard Steffen

  • Reactive, generative, and stratified models of probabilistic processes

    Rob J. VanGlabbeek;Scott A. Smolka;Bernhard Steffen

  • Reactive, generative, and stratified models of probabilistic processes

    R. van Glabbeek;S.A. Smolka;B. Steffen;C.M.N. Tofts

  • Lazy code motion

    Jens Knoop;Oliver Rüthing;Bernhard Steffen

  • A linear-time model-checking algorithm for the alternation-free modal mu-calculus

    Rance Cleaveland;Bernhard Steffen

  • Optimal code motion: theory and practice

    Jens Knoop;Oliver Rüthing;Bernhard Steffen

  • The Concurrency Workbench

    Rance Cleaveland;Joachim Parrow;Bernhard Steffen

  • Verification on Infinite Structures

    Olaf Burkart;Didier Caucal;Faron Moller;Bernhard Steffen

  • Partial dead code elimination

    Jens Knoop;Oliver Rüthing;Bernhard Steffen

  • Model-driven development with the jABC

    Bernhard Steffen;Tiziana Margaria;Ralf Nagel;Sven Jörges

  • The TTT Algorithm: A Redundancy-Free Approach to Active Automata Learning

    Malte Isberner;Falk Howar;Bernhard Steffen

  • Data Flow Analysis as Model Checking

    Bernhard Steffen

  • Model-Checking: A Tutorial Introduction

    Markus Müller-Olm;David A. Schmidt;Bernhard Steffen

  • The Interprocedural Coincidence Theorem

    Jens Knoop;Bernhard Steffen

  • The Open-Source LearnLib

    Malte Isberner;Falk Howar;Bernhard Steffen

  • Program Analysis as Model Checking of Abstract Interpretations

    David A. Schmidt;Bernhard Steffen

  • LearnLib: a library for automata learning and experimentation

    Harald Raffelt;Bernhard Steffen;Therese Berg

  • Introduction to Active Automata Learning from a Practical Perspective

    Bernhard Steffen;Falk Howar;Maik Merten

  • Model Checking for Context-Free Processes

    Olaf Burkart;Bernhard Steffen

  • Faster Model Checking for the Modal Mu-Calculus

    Rance Cleaveland;Marion Klein;Bernhard Steffen

  • Compositional Minimization of Finite State Systems

    Susanne Graf;Bernhard Steffen

  • Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

    Hendrik Brinksma;W.R. Cleaveland;T. Margaria;B. Steffen

  • Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems : 25 Years of TACAS: TOOLympics, Held as Part of ETAPS 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, April 6-11, 2019, Proceedings, Part III

    Dirk Beyer;Marieke Huisman;Fabrice Kordon;Bernhard Steffen

  • Reactive, generative, and stratified models of probabilistic processes

    R.J. vanGlabbeek;S.A. Smolka;B. Steffen;C.M.N. Tofts

Frequent Co-Authors

Tiziana Margaria
Tiziana Margaria University of Limerick
Bengt Jonsson
Bengt Jonsson Uppsala University
Rance Cleaveland
Rance Cleaveland University of Maryland, College Park
Kim Guldstrand Larsen
Kim Guldstrand Larsen Aalborg University
Scott A. Smolka
Scott A. Smolka Stony Brook University
Dirk Beyer
Dirk Beyer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Antonia Bertolino
Antonia Bertolino National Research Council (CNR)
Axel Legay
Axel Legay Université Catholique de Louvain
Valérie Issarny
Valérie Issarny French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

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