You may choose from one of the following papers. The scope, complexity and required knowledge for these papers roughly divides them into topics for bachelor students and for master students. However, bachelor students that take great interest in a master students topic may also choose from those.   

The papers are assigned via first-come-first-serve. Already taken papers are marked. Please send an email to Jette (jep@informatik.uni-kiel.de) in order to reserve a paper.

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Bachelor Recommendations

Synchronous

S. A. Edwards and J. Hui, The Sparse Synchronous Model, 2020 Forum for Specification and Design Languages (FDL), 2020, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/FDL50818.2020.9232938.

[assigned] Francisco Sant’Anna, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming for Game Development - Case Study: On Rewriting Pingus from C++ to Céu, 2018 17th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames), 2018, pp. 240-24009

J. Deantoni, J. Cambeiro, S. Bateni, S. Lin and M. Lohstroh, Debugging and Verification Tools for Lingua Franca in Gemoc Studio, 2021 Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL), 2021, pp. 01-08, doi: 10.1109/FDL53530.2021.9568383.

Juha-Pekka Tolvanen and Steven Kelly. 2018. Effort Used to Create Domain-Specific Modeling Languages. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 235-244.

M. Lohstroh, C. Menard, A. Schulz-Rosengarten, M. Weber, J. Castrillon and E. A. Lee, A Language for Deterministic Coordination Across Multiple Timelines, 2020 Forum for Specification and Design Languages (FDL), 2020

[assigned] F. Gretz, F. -J. Grosch, M. Mendler and S. Scheele, Synchronized Shared Memory and Procedural Abstraction: Towards a Formal Semantics of Blech, 2020 Forum for Specification and Design Languages (FDL), 2020, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/FDL50818.2020.9232942.

L. Grimm, S. Smyth, A. Schulz-Rosengarten, R. von Hanxleden and M. Pouzet, From Lustre to Graphical Models and SCCharts, 2020 Forum for Specification and Design Languages (FDL), 2020, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/FDL50818.2020.9232944.

[assigned] Joaquin Aguado and Alejandra Duenas, Synchronised Shared Memory and Model Checking: A Proof of Concept, 2021 Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL), 2021, pp. 01-08

Real-Time / Embedded

Saranya Natarajan and David Broman, Temporal Property-Based Testing of a Timed C Compiler using Time-Flow Graph Semantics, 2020 Forum for Specification and Design Languages (FDL), 2020

[assigned] Hadi Alizadeh Ara, Marc Geilen, Amir Behrouzian, and Twan Basten. 2018. Throughput-Buffering Trade-Off Analysis for Scenario-Aware Dataflow Models. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 265–275.

Francisco Sant'Anna, Rodrigo Santos, and Noemi Rodriguez. 2021. Symmetric distributed applications. Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Reactive and Event-Based Languages and Systems. Association for Computing Machinery.

[assigned] Y. Bai, O. Rafique and K. Schneider, A Model-based Design Flow for Asynchronous Implementations from Synchronous Specifications, 2021 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2021

Safety Analysis

Sven Stefan Krauss, Martin Rejzek, and Christian Hilbes. Tool Qualification Considerations for Tools Supporting STPA. Procedia Engineering 128 (2015): 15-24.

H. Reza, M. Pimple, V. Krishna and J. Hildle, A Safety Analysis Method Using Fault Tree Analysis and Petri Nets. 2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2009, pp. 1089-1094, doi: 10.1109/ITNG.2009.183.

J. Axelsson and A. Kobetski, Towards a risk analysis method for systems-of-systems based on systems thinking. 2018 Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 2018, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/SYSCON.2018.8369501.

F. G. R. de Souza, J. de Melo Bezerra, C. M. Hirata, P. de Saqui-Sannes and L. Apvrille, Combining STPA with SysML Modeling. 2020 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 2020, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/SysCon47679.2020.9275867.

D. L. Gurgel, C. M. Hirata and J. De M. Bezerra, A rule-based approach for safety analysis using STAMP/STPA. 2015 IEEE/AIAA 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2015, pp. 7B2-1-7B2-8, doi: 10.1109/DASC.2015.7311464.

Master Recommendations

Synchronous

Tobias Sehnke, Dieter Schwarzmann, Matthias Schultalbers, and Rolf Ernst. 2017. Temporal properties in automotive control software. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 98-107.

Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, Robert de Simone, Yves Sorel, and Jean-Pierre Talpin, Clock-driven distributed real-time implementation of endochronous synchronous programs, In Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Embedded software, New York, USA, 2009

Guillaume Baudart, Louis Mandel, Eric Atkinson, Benjamin Sherman, Marc Pouzet, and Michael Carbin. 2020. Reactive probabilistic programming. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2020)

Evgeny Kusmenko, Bernhard Rumpe, Sascha Schneiders, and Michael von Wenckstern. 2018. Highly-Optimizing and Multi-Target Compiler for Embedded System Models: C++ Compiler Toolchain for the Component and Connector Language EmbeddedMontiArc. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 447-457.

Real-Time / Embedded

Jordan A. Ross, Alexandr Murashkin, Jia Hui Liang, Michał Antkiewicz, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Synthesis and exploration of multi-level, multi-perspective architectures of automotive embedded systems, Software & Systems Modeling 2019

Reza Ahmadi, Ernesto Posse, and Juergen Dingel. 2018. Slicing UML-based Models of Real-time Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 346-356.

Bader Alahmad and Sathish Gopalakrishnan. 2018. On Budgeting and Quality, with an Application to Safety-Critical Real-time Systems. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19-29.

Tobias Klaus, Florian Franzmann, Matthias Becker, and Peter Ulbrich. 2018. Data Propagation Delay Constraints in Multi-Rate Systems: Deadlines vs. Job-Level Dependencies. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 93-103.

Andreas Sailer, Michael Deubzer, Gerald Lüttgen, and Jürgen Mottok. 2017. Comparing trace recordings of automotive real-time software. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 118-127.

Guillaume Brau, Nicolas Navet, and Jérôme Hugues. 2017. Heterogeneous models and analyses in the design of real-time embedded systems - an avionic case-study. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 168-177. 

Safety Analysis / Testing

Carlos A. González, Mojtaba Varmazyar, Shiva Nejati, Lionel C. Briand, and Yago Isasi. 2018. Enabling Model Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 176-186.

A. Gannous, A. Andrews and B. Gallina, Toward a Systematic and Safety Evidence Productive Verification Approach for Safety-Critical Systems. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2018, pp. 329-336, doi: 10.1109/ISSREW.2018.00026.