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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 Niklas (nre@informatik.uni-kiel.de) in order to reserve a paper.

Many of the links do only work in the university network. Through the usage of a VPN or a remote session to the terminal server, those are also accessible from home. If any problems occur feel free to contact us.

Bachelor Recommendations

Real-Time / Embedded

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.

[assigned] Björn Forsberg, Maxim Mattheeuws, Andreas Kurth, Andrea Marongiu, and Luca Benini. A Synergistic Approach to Predictable Compilation and Scheduling on Commodity Multi-Cores In The 21st ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2020

[assigned] Jun Xiao and Andy D. Pimentel. CITTA: Cache Interference-aware Task Partitioning for Real-time Multi-core Systems. In The 21st ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2020

Mladen Skelin and Marc Geilen. Compositionality in scenario-aware dataflow: a rendezvous perspective. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2018). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2018

[assigned] Yecheng Zhao and Haibo Zeng. Optimization techniques for time-critical cyber-physical systems. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Design Automation for CPS and IoT (DESTION '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2019

[assigned] 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] 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.

N. A. Carreón, A. Gilbreath and R. Lysecky, Statistical Time-based Intrusion Detection in Embedded Systems, 2020 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Grenoble, France, 2020, pp. 562-567, doi: 10.23919/DATE48585.2020.9116369.

Safety Analysis/Model Checking

[assigned] 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.

[assigned] 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.

J. Kloos, T. Hussain, and R. Eschbach. Risk-based testing of safety-critical embedded systems driven by fault tree analysis. In 2011 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, pp. 26-33. IEEE, 2011.

[assigned] L. A. Cortes, P. Eles and Z. Peng, Formal coverification of embedded systems using model checking.Proceedings of the 26th Euromicro Conference. EUROMICRO 2000. Informatics: Inventing the Future. Vol. 1. IEEE, 2000.

[assigned] L. Apvrille and L. W. Li. Harmonizing safety, security and performance requirements in embedded systems.. In 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pp. 1631-1636. IEEE, 2019.

Master Recommendations

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.

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.

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.

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.

[assigned] 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.

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. 

Amrani, M., Blouin, D., Heinrich, R. et al. Multi-paradigm modelling for cyber–physical systems: a descriptive framework. Softw Syst Model 20, 611–639 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-021-00876-z

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.