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Organisation profile
Introduction / mission
Formal System Analysis focuses on theories, techniques and tools for modeling and analyzing the behaviors of software-controlled systems.
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Formal analysis is essential for cost-effective, highly reliable software-controlled systems
Organisation profile
The FSA group studies the foundations of software-controlled systems and develops languages and techniques for modelling and analyzing real-world, industrial-scale applications. Expertise in the group includes process algebras for reasoning about concurrent, timed and probabilistic system behavior, SAT- and SMT-solvers, rewriting, and model checking technology. Research focusses on scalability of the technology, which is required for its use in the development of software controlled-systems. The group offers courses in Logic, Formal Methods, Model Checking, Micro-processor Verification, and Automated Reasoning.
Much of the group’s research is consolidated in tools. Prominent examples include mCRL2 and MaDL. mCRL2 is a process-algebraic language with an award-winning tool set for modeling and analyzing concurrent systems. MaDL is a language with associated verification techniques for scalable liveness verification of micro-architectures of computer processors.
Current areas of application include protocols, hardware designs and industrial control systems. Recent examples include the formalization of the commercial industrial modelling and code generation language Dezyne, which relies on mCRL2 for analyzing the system behaviors. Past examples include verification of the control systems of the four large experiments in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, using model checking and satisfiability solving to improve the control system reliability, and the analysis of the software architecture of the first award-winning Stella Solar Car.
Recent research projects in which FSA is involved include:
- AVVA: Accelerated Verification and Verification Accelerated (NWO TOP grant)
- MERITS: Model extraction for re-engineering traditional software (NWO Big Software, with Philips Healthcare)
- Formal verification of cache coherent multi-core architectures (NWO TOP grant)
- DEWI: Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure (Artemis project)
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Jore J. Booy, Msc
- Mathematics and Computer Science, Formal System Analysis - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
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Mark S. Bouwman
- Mathematics and Computer Science, Formal System Analysis - Former Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
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Olav Bunte
- Mathematics and Computer Science, Formal System Analysis - University Lecturer
Person: OWP : University Teacher / Researcher
Projects
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Composable Embedded Systems for Healthcare
Groote, J. F. (Project Manager) & Vlasiou, M. (Project member)
1/05/11 → 30/06/17
Project: Research direct
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Axiomatising weak bisimulation congruences over CCS with left merge and communication merge
Aceto, L., Castiglioni, V. (Corresponding author), Ingólfsdóttir, A. & Luttik, B., 3 Sept 2025, In: Theoretical Computer Science. 1047, 30 p., 115325.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Efficient Evidence Generation for Modal µ-Calculus Model Checking
Stramaglia, A. (Corresponding author), Keiren, J. J. A., Laveaux, M. & Willemse, T. A. C., 1 May 2025, Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 31st International Conference, TACAS 2025, Held as Part of the International Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2025, Hamilton, ON, Canada, May 3–8, 2025, Proceedings, Part I. Gurfinkel, A. & Heule, M. (eds.). Springer, p. 191-210 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); vol. 15696).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Efficient Evidence Generation for Modal µ-Calculus Model Checking (extended version)
Stramaglia, A., Keiren, J. J. A., Laveaux, M. & Willemse, T. A. C., 27 Jan 2025.Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic
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Equipment
Datasets
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Artifact - Formalisation of a new weak semantics for AuDaLa
Leemrijse, G. (Contributor), Franken, T. T. P. (Contributor) & Neele, T. (Contributor), Zenodo, 21 Aug 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13354543, https://zenodo.org/records/13354543
Dataset
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Antichain-based refinement checking benchmark using the mCRL2 toolset
Laveaux, M. (Contributor), Zenodo, 19 Sept 2019
Dataset
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Decomposing Monolithic Processes using the mCRL2 toolset
Laveaux, M. (Creator) & Willemse, T. A. C. (Creator), Zenodo, 3 Jan 2022
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Prizes
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Best Paper Award FACS 2018
Neele, T. S. (Recipient), Willemse, T. A. C. (Recipient) & Groote, J. F. (Recipient), 11 Oct 2018
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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EATCS Best Paper Award
Neele, T. (Recipient), Valmari, A. (Recipient) & Willemse, T. A. C. (Recipient), 2 Jul 2020
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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FMICS-AVoCS Best Paper award
Groote, J. F. (Recipient), Wesselink, J. W. (Recipient) & Willemse, T. A. C. (Recipient), 20 Sept 2017
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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2020 ICAB Conference
Limburg, A. A. A. (Organiser), Budé, R. H. S. (Organiser), Swagten, H. J. M. (Organiser), van Leeuwen, K. A. H. (Organiser), de Vink, E. P. (Organiser), Gómez Puente, S. M. (Organiser) & Kroesen, G. M. W. (Organiser)
5 Nov 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Conference › Scientific
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IPA Herfstdagen on Security (November 21-25,2005), Zwartsluis, The Netherlands
de Vink, E. (Speaker)
22 Nov 2005Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
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VVSS 2004 (Verification and Validation of Software Systems), LaQuSo, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Romijn, J. (Speaker)
24 Nov 2004Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
Student theses
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Abstracting real-valued parameters in parameterised boolean equation systems
Laveaux, M. (Author), Willemse, T. A. C. (Supervisor 1), 26 Feb 2018Student thesis: Master
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A complete axiomatisation for probabilistic trace equivalence
Timmers, F. (Author), Groote, J. F. (Supervisor 1), 26 Nov 2018Student thesis: Master
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Adding sequential composition and termination to the linear time: branching time spectrum
Nijland, L. (Author), Luttik, S. P. (Supervisor 1), 31 Aug 2018Student thesis: Master
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