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Joost-Pieter Katoen

Joost-Pieter Katoen

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Computer Science
Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
74
Citations
27733
World Ranking
1466
National Ranking
58

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
  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to model checking of software and probabilistic systems
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Joost-Pieter Katoen is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their main field of study is Computer Science, with 342 publications across related domains. Their subfields include Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Software, Computer Networks and Communications, and Hardware and Architecture.

Their research primarily covers topics such as Formal Methods in Verification, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, Logic, Programming, and Type Systems, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Joost-Pieter Katoen include Sebastian Junges, Tim Quatmann, Kevin Batz, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, and Tobias Winkler.

Publication venues where they have frequently contributed are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)

Noteworthy recent papers authored by or in collaboration with them include:

  • Parameter synthesis in Markov models, 2020, RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)
  • Relatively complete verification of probabilistic programs: an expressive language for expectation-based reasoning, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • The complexity of reachability in parametric Markov decision processes, 2021, Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • A Calculus for Amortized Expected Runtimes, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • DFT modeling approach for operational risk assessment of railway infrastructure, 2022, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer

Joost-Pieter Katoen has contributed to book publications from major publishers. Their books include Foundations of Probabilistic Programming, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, and Formal Methods, published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2023.

Recognition for their contributions includes being named an ACM Fellow in 2020 for work in model checking of software and probabilistic systems. They were also elected a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013 and designated an ACM Senior Member in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Principles of Model Checking

    Christel Baier;Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • Principles of Model Checking (Representation and Mind Series)

    Christel Baier;Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • Model-checking algorithms for continuous-time Markov chains

    C. Baier;B. Haverkort;H. Hermanns;J.-P. Katoen

  • Model-Based Testing of Reactive Systems, Advanced Lectures

    Manfred Broy;Bengt Jonsson;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Martin Leucker

  • The ins and outs of the probabilistic model checker MRMC

    Joost-Pieter Katoen;Ivan S. Zapreev;Ernst Moritz Hahn;Holger Hermanns

  • Validation of Stochastic Systems : A Guide to Current Research

    Christel Baier;Boudewijn R. Haverkort;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Holger Hermanns

  • A Storm is Coming: A Modern Probabilistic Model Checker

    Christian Dehnert;Sebastian Junges;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Matthias Volk

  • Approximative Symbolic Model Checking of Continuous-Time Markov Chains

    Christel Baier;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Holger Hermanns

  • Process algebra for performance evaluation

    Holger Hermanns;Ulrich Herzog;Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • Approximate symbolic model checking of continuous-time Markov chains

    C. Baier;J.-P. Katoen;H. Hermanns

  • A Markov reward model checker

    J.-P. Katoen;M. Khattri;I.S. Zapreevt

  • Safety, Dependability and Performance Analysis of Extended AADL Models

    Marco Bozzano;Alessandro Cimatti;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Viet Yen Nguyen

  • Model Checking Continuous-Time Markov Chains by Transient Analysis

    Christel Baier;Boudewijn R. Haverkort;Holger Hermanns;Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • Comparative branching-time semantics for Markov chains

    Christel Baier;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Holger Hermanns;Verena Wolf

  • MODEST: A Compositional Modeling Formalism for Hard and Softly Timed Systems

    H. Bohnenkamp;P.R. D'Argenio;H. Hermanns;J.-P. Katoen

  • Approximate Model Checking of Stochastic Hybrid Systems

    Alessandro Abate;Joost-Pieter Katoen;John Lygeros;Maria Prandini

  • Discrete-Time Rewards Model-Checked

    Suzana Andova;Holger Hermanns;Holger Hermanns;Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • Efficient computation of time-bounded reachability probabilities in uniform continuous-time Markov decision processes

    Christel Baier;Holger Hermanns;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Boudewijn R. Haverkort

  • The Probabilistic Model Checking Landscape

    Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • A compositional modelling and analysis framework for stochastic hybrid systems

    Ernst Moritz Hahn;Arnd Hartmanns;Holger Hermanns;Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • A Probabilistic Extension of UML Statecharts

    David N. Jansen;Holger Hermanns;Joost-Pieter Katoen

  • Model-Based Testing of Reactive Systems, Advanced Lectures [The volume is the outcome of a research seminar that was held in Schloss Dagstuhl in January 2004]

    Manfred Broy;Bengt Jonsson;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Martin Leucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Hermanns
Holger Hermanns Saarland University
Christel Baier
Christel Baier TU Dresden
Boudewijn R. Haverkort
Boudewijn R. Haverkort Tilburg University
Martin Leucker
Martin Leucker University of Lübeck
Bernd Becker
Bernd Becker University of Freiburg
Mariëlle Stoelinga
Mariëlle Stoelinga University of Twente
Ufuk Topcu
Ufuk Topcu The University of Texas at Austin
Annabelle McIver
Annabelle McIver Macquarie University
Alexander Pretschner
Alexander Pretschner Technical University of Munich
Alessandro Cimatti
Alessandro Cimatti Fondazione Bruno Kessler

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