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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christel Baier is a German theoretical computer scientist known for her work in model checking, temporal logic, and automata theory. She is a professor at TU Dresden, where she holds the chair for Algebraic and Logic Foundations of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science. Baier is the editor-in-chief of Acta Informatica.
Christel Baier's Published Works
Published Works
- Principles of model checking (2008) (4925)
- Principles of Model Checking (Representation and Mind Series) (2008) (1132)
- Model-Checking Algorithms for Continuous-Time Markov Chains (2002) (797)
- Probabilistic ω-automata (2012) (446)
- Modeling component connectors in Reo by constraint automata (2004) (358)
- Approximate Symbolic Model Checking of Continuous-Time Markov Chains (1999) (289)
- Model checking for a probabilistic branching time logic with fairness (1998) (240)
- Symbolic Model Checking for Probabilistic Processes (1997) (199)
- PROBMELA: a modeling language for communicating probabilistic processes (2004) (199)
- Model Checking Continuous-Time Markov Chains by Transient Analysis (2000) (196)
- Comparative branching-time semantics for Markov chains (2005) (176)
- Weak Bisimulation for Fully Probabilistic Processes (1997) (168)
- Deciding Bisimilarity and Similarity for Probabilistic Processes (2000) (137)
- CONCUR 2006 - Concurrency Theory, 17th International Conference, CONCUR 2006, Bonn, Germany, August 27-30, 2006, Proceedings (2006) (135)
- Efficient Computation of Time-Bounded Reachability Probabilities in Uniform Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes (2005) (135)
- On the Logical Characterisation of Performability Properties (2000) (128)
- LiQuor: A tool for Qualitative and Quantitative Linear Time analysis of Reactive Systems (2006) (111)
- Model checking performability properties (2002) (97)
- Performance evaluation and model checking join forces (2010) (95)
- Controller Synthesis for Probabilistic Systems (2004) (94)
- Validation of Stochastic Systems (2004) (90)
- On Decision Problems for Probabilistic Büchi Automata (2008) (87)
- Model Checking Markov Chains with Actions and State Labels (2007) (81)
- Experiments with Deterministic ω-Automata for Formulas of Linear Temporal Logic (2005) (72)
- Partial order reduction for probabilistic systems (2004) (69)
- Partial Order Reduction for Probabilistic Branching Time (2006) (65)
- Polynomial Time Algorithms for Testing Probabilistic Bisimulation and Simulation (1996) (64)
- Models and temporal logics for timed component connectors (2004) (58)
- Symbolic Model Checking for Channel-based Component Connectors (2007) (57)
- Ensuring the Reliability of Your Model Checker: Interval Iteration for Markov Decision Processes (2017) (55)
- Model Checking Probabilistic Systems (2018) (55)
- Recognizing /spl omega/-regular languages with probabilistic automata (2005) (54)
- Models and temporal logical specifications for timed component connectors (2007) (54)
- Domain equations for probabilistic processes (2000) (52)
- On the Verification of Qualitative Properties of Probabilistic Processes under Fairness Constraints (1998) (51)
- ProFeat: feature-oriented engineering for family-based probabilistic model checking (2017) (50)
- Probabilistic and Topological Semantics for Timed Automata (2007) (49)
- When Are Timed Automata Determinizable? (2009) (49)
- Energy-Utility Quantiles (2014) (46)
- Automated Performance and Dependability Evaluation Using Model Checking (2002) (44)
- Stochastic Timed Automata (2014) (44)
- Almost-Sure Model Checking of Infinite Paths in One-Clock Timed Automata (2008) (44)
- Model checking action- and state-labelled Markov chains (2004) (43)
- Denotational Semantics in the CPO and Metric Approach (1994) (42)
- Rare-event verification for stochastic hybrid systems (2012) (41)
- Establishing Qualitative Properties for Probabilistic Lossy Channel Systems: An Algorithmic Approach (1999) (41)
- Experiments with deterministic omega-automata for formulas of linear temporal logic (2005) (41)
- Probabilistic model checking for energy analysis in software product lines (2013) (41)
- A Uniform Framework for Modeling and Verifying Components and Connectors (2009) (41)
- Trace Machines for Observing Continuous-Time Markov Chains (2006) (41)
- Computing Quantiles in Markov Reward Models (2013) (40)
- Computing Conditional Probabilities in Markovian Models Efficiently (2014) (40)
- Reduction Techniques for Model Checking Markov Decision Processes (2008) (40)
- Metric Semantics for True Concurrent Real Time (1998) (40)
- Some advances in tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems (2017) (39)
- Probabilistic Model Checking for Feature-Oriented Systems (2015) (39)
- Probabilistic Models for Reo Connector Circuits (2005) (38)
- Parametric Markov Chains: PCTL Complexity and Fraction-free Gaussian Elimination (2017) (38)
- Reasoning about Probabilistic Lossy Channel Systems (2000) (37)
- Genetic Algorithms for the Variable Ordering Problem of Binary Decision Diagrams (2005) (35)
- Advances in probabilistic model checking with PRISM: variable reordering, quantiles and weak deterministic Büchi automata (2018) (34)
- Validation of Stochastic Systems: A Guide to Current Research (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (2004) (34)
- Stochastic game logic (2007) (33)
- Stochastic Reasoning About Channel-Based Component Connectors (2006) (33)
- Model-Checking Algorithms for (2003) (33)
- Trade-off analysis meets probabilistic model checking (2014) (33)
- Synthesis of Reo Circuits for Implementation of Component-Connector Automata Specifications (2005) (32)
- Design and Verification of Systems with Exogenous Coordination Using Vereofy (2010) (32)
- On Topological Hierarchies of Temporal Properties (1997) (31)
- Weight monitoring with linear temporal logic: complexity and decidability (2014) (31)
- Verifying nondeterministic probabilistic channel systems against ω-regular linear-time properties (2005) (29)
- On Computing Fixpoints in Well-Structured Regular Model Checking, with Applications to Lossy Channel Systems (2006) (29)
- Performability assessment by model checking of Markov reward models (2010) (29)
- Simulation for Continuous-Time Markov Chains (2002) (28)
- Markov Chains and Unambiguous Büchi Automata (2016) (27)
- Family-Based Modeling and Analysis for Probabilistic Systems - Featuring ProFeat (2016) (25)
- Norm Functions for Probabilistic Bisimulations with Delays (2000) (24)
- Quantitative Analysis under Fairness Constraints (2009) (24)
- Model Checking Linear-Time Properties of Probabilistic Systems (2009) (24)
- Formal Verification for Components and Connectors (2009) (24)
- Architecture and Advanced Electronics Pathways Toward Highly Adaptive Energy- Efficient Computing (2019) (24)
- Model checking meets performance evaluation (2005) (24)
- Model checking for performability (2013) (23)
- Probabilistic Model Checking for Energy-Utility Analysis (2014) (22)
- ProbMela and verification of Markov decision processes (2005) (22)
- Checking Equivalence for Reo Networks (2008) (22)
- On-the-Fly Stuttering in the Construction of Deterministic ω-Automata (2007) (21)
- Metric semantics from partial order semantics (1997) (20)
- Probabilistic weak simulation is decidable in polynomial time (2004) (20)
- On-the-Fly Stuttering in the Construction of Deterministic omega -Automata (2007) (20)
- On the computation of supremal sublanguages relevant to supervisory control (2012) (20)
- Partial Order Reduction for Markov Decision Processes: A Survey (2005) (20)
- Decision making improves sperm chemotaxis in the presence of noise (2017) (19)
- Compositional Semantics of an Actor-Based Language Using Constraint Automata (2006) (19)
- Advances in Symbolic Probabilistic Model Checking with PRISM (2016) (18)
- Maximizing the Conditional Expected Reward for Reaching the Goal (2017) (18)
- Simulating perfect channels with probabilistic lossy channels (2005) (17)
- Distributed wait state tracking for runtime MPI deadlock detection (2013) (17)
- Synthesis of Reo circuits from scenario-based interaction specifications (2011) (17)
- Are Good-for-Games Automata Good for Probabilistic Model Checking? (2014) (17)
- A Compositional Framework for Controller Synthesis (2011) (16)
- Alternating-time stream logic for multi-agent systems (2008) (16)
- A note on the attractor-property of infinite-state Markov chains (2006) (16)
- Probabilistic Model Checking and Non-standard Multi-objective Reasoning (2014) (16)
- Metric Completion versus Ideal Completion (1996) (15)
- Comparative Branching-Time Semantics (2003) (15)
- The Algebraic Mu-Calculus and MTBDDs (1998) (15)
- Stochastic Shortest Paths and Weight-Bounded Properties in Markov Decision Processes (2018) (15)
- Reachability in continuous-time Markov reward decision processes (2008) (15)
- The 10, 000 Facets of MDP Model Checking (2019) (14)
- Credo Methodology: Modeling and Analyzing A Peer-to-Peer System in Credo (2010) (14)
- Recurrence and Transience for Probabilistic Automata (2009) (13)
- From Verification to Causality-based Explications (2021) (13)
- Partially-shared zero-suppressed multi-terminal BDDs: concept, algorithms and applications (2010) (13)
- Trace Semantics for Stochastic Systems with Nondeterminism (2006) (13)
- Farkas Certificates and Minimal Witnesses for Probabilistic Reachability Constraints (2019) (13)
- Synthesis of Reo Connectors for Strategies and Controllers (2014) (13)
- Linear Time Logic and Deterministic omega-Automata (2005) (12)
- Modeling and Verification of Components and Connectors (2011) (12)
- On Reduction Criteria for Probabilistic Reward Models (2006) (12)
- Energy-Utility Analysis for Resilient Systems Using Probabilistic Model Checking (2014) (11)
- Locks: Picking key methods for a scalable quantitative analysis (2015) (11)
- Computing Probability Bounds for Linear Time Formulas over Concurrent Probabilistic Systems (1998) (11)
- A Hardware/Software Stack for Heterogeneous Systems (2018) (11)
- Symbolic Reasoning with Weighted and Normalized Decision Diagrams (2006) (11)
- On Skolem-hardness and saturation points in Markov decision processes (2020) (10)
- A uniform framework for weighted decision diagrams and its implementation (2008) (10)
- On the Semantic Foundations of Probabilistic VERUS (1998) (10)
- Probabilistic Automata over Infinite Words: Expressiveness, Efficiency, and Decidability (2009) (10)
- Generating Compact MTBDD-Representations from ProbmelaSpecifications (2008) (10)
- Waiting for Locks: How Long Does It Usually Take? (2012) (10)
- Hierarchical Modeling and Formal Verification. An Industrial Case Study Using Reo and Vereofy (2011) (10)
- The connection between an event structure semantics and an operational semantics forTCSP (1994) (10)
- A hierarchical and modular control architecture for sequential behaviours (2015) (9)
- Automatic verification of liveness properties of randomized systems (1997) (9)
- Causality in Configurable Software Systems (2022) (9)
- Generic Emptiness Check for Fun and Profit (2019) (8)
- Energy-Utility Analysis of Probabilistic Systems with Exogenous Coordination (2018) (8)
- The connection between initial and unique solutions of domain equations in the partial order and metric approach (1997) (8)
- Ratio and Weight Quantiles (2015) (8)
- How to Interpret and Establish Consistency Results for Semantics of Concurrent Programming Languages (1997) (8)
- Model Checking with Formula-Dependent Abstract Models (2001) (8)
- A hierarchical control architecture for sequential behaviours (2012) (7)
- Model Checking pathCSL (2003) (7)
- Probabilistic Model Checking (2016) (7)
- Comparative Branching-Time Semantics for Markov Chains (Extended Abstract) (2003) (7)
- Bisimulation and Simulation Relations for Markov Chains (2006) (7)
- Synthesis of Reo Circuits from Scenario-based Specifications (2009) (7)
- Static Partial Order Reduction for Probabilistic Concurrent Systems (2012) (6)
- A Game-Theoretic Account of Responsibility Allocation (2021) (6)
- A Probabilistic Quantitative Analysis of Probabilistic-Write/Copy-Select (2013) (6)
- The Orbit Problem for Parametric Linear Dynamical Systems (2021) (6)
- Reduction Methods on Probabilistic Control-flow Programs for Reliability Analysis (2020) (6)
- Model Checking CSRL-Specified Performability Properties (2001) (6)
- Breaking the Limits of Redundancy Systems Analysis (2019) (5)
- Lab Conditions for Research on Explainable Automated Decisions (2020) (5)
- Partial and Conditional Expectations in Markov Decision Processes with Integer Weights (2019) (5)
- Modeling Role-Based Systems with Exogenous Coordination (2016) (5)
- From verification to synthesis under cost-utility constraints (2018) (5)
- Computing Probability Lower and Upper Bounds for LTL Formulae over Sequential and Concurrent Markov Chains (1999) (5)
- Quantitative analysis of distributed randomized protocols (2005) (5)
- Probabilistic causes in Markov chains (2021) (5)
- From features to roles (2020) (5)
- Chiefly Symmetric: Results on the Scalability of Probabilistic Model Checking for Operating-System Code (2012) (5)
- Admissibility in Probabilistic Argumentation (2021) (5)
- Experiments with Deterministic w-Automata for Formulas of Linear Temporal Logic (2006) (4)
- Synthesis of Optimal Resilient Control Strategies (2017) (4)
- Computing Conditional Probabilities: Implementation and Evaluation (2017) (4)
- Probabilistic Acceptors for Languages over Infinite Words (2009) (4)
- Compositional construction of most general controllers (2015) (4)
- Distributed Reconfiguration of Maximal Independent Sets (2019) (4)
- Components in Probabilistic Systems: Suitable by Construction (2020) (4)
- From LTL to unambiguous Büchi automata via disambiguation of alternating automata (2019) (4)
- Reachability in Dynamical Systems with Rounding (2020) (4)
- Mean-payoff Optimization in Continuous-time Markov Chains with Parametric Alarms (2017) (4)
- Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - Volume 9035 (2015) (4)
- Tactile computing: Essential building blocks for the Tactile Internet (2021) (4)
- Reasoning About Cost-Utility Constraints in Probabilistic Models (2015) (4)
- ProFeat: feature-oriented engineering for family-based probabilistic model checking (2017) (4)
- Consistent abstractions for the purpose of supervisory control (2013) (4)
- A Probabilistic Semantics for Timed Automata (2008) (4)
- Composition of Stochastic Transition Systems Based on Spans and Couplings (2016) (4)
- Symbolic Verification of Communicating Systems with Probabilistic Message Losses: Liveness and Fairness (2006) (4)
- The Effect of Tossing Coins in Omega-Automata (2009) (4)
- Bisimulations, logics, and trace distributions for stochastic systems with rewards (2018) (3)
- The Credo Methodology - (Extended Version) (2009) (3)
- Quantitative Characterization of Reconfigurable Transistor Logic Gates (2020) (3)
- Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (2018) (3)
- Configuration of inter-process communication with probabilistic model checking (2019) (3)
- From Verification to Causality-Based Explications (Invited Talk) (2021) (3)
- Responsibility Attribution in Parameterized Markovian Models (2021) (3)
- Formal Parameter Synthesis for Energy-Utility-Optimal Fault Tolerance (2018) (3)
- Construction of a cms on a given cpo (1995) (3)
- Model checking probabilistic systems against pushdown specifications (2012) (3)
- Towards Automated Configuration of Systems with Non-Functional Constraints (2017) (3)
- Determinization and Limit-determinization of Emerson-Lei automata (2021) (2)
- Synthesis of Reo circuits (2005) (2)
- Preface to the special issue on Probabilistic Model Checking (2013) (2)
- Weighted Automata - Theory and Applications (2006) (2)
- On the Semantic Foundations of Probabilistic Synchronous Reactive Programs (1998) (2)
- A Tight Approximation for Submodular Maximization with Mixed Packing and Covering Constraints (2019) (2)
- Towards Automated Variant Selection for Heterogeneous Tiled Architectures (2017) (2)
- Minimal witnesses for probabilistic timed automata (2020) (2)
- Responsibility and verification: Importance value in temporal logics (2021) (2)
- Long-run Satisfaction of Path Properties (2019) (2)
- Causality-Based Game Solving (2021) (2)
- Performance Evaluation of Thermal-Constrained Scheduling Strategies in Multi-core Systems (2019) (2)
- The Connection between Initial and Unique Solutions of Domain Equations in the CPO and Metric Approach (1997) (2)
- Iterative Variable Reordering: Taming Huge System Families (2020) (2)
- On probability-raising causality in Markov decision processes (2022) (2)
- The Orchestration Stack: The Impossible Task of Designing Software for Unknown Future Post-CMOS Hardware (2016) (2)
- Feed-forward control for a lithography/etch sequence (2000) (2)
- Human-inspired models for tactile computing (2021) (1)
- Syanco 2007: international workshop on synthesis and analysis of component connectors (2007) (1)
- Multi-terminal decision diagrams: a data structure for numerical integration (1999) (1)
- Quantitative Analysis of Randomized Distributed Systems and Probabilistic Automata (2013) (1)
- Probabilistic Software Product Line Model Checking (2014) (1)
- Quantitative Analysis of Communication Scenarios (2015) (1)
- Switss: Computing Small Witnessing Subsystems (2020) (1)
- SOFSEM 2017: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 43rd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Limerick, Ireland, January 16-20, 2017, Proceedings (2017) (1)
- Operational Causality - Necessarily Sufficient and Sufficiently Necessary (2022) (1)
- Some advances in tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems (2017) (1)
- Markov Chains and Unambiguous Automata (2016) (1)
- Trees and Semantics (1997) (1)
- From Emerson-Lei automata to deterministic, limit-deterministic or good-for-MDP automata (2022) (1)
- Quantified Linear Temporal Logic over Probabilistic Systems with an Application to Vacuity Checking (2021) (1)
- On Model Checking Techniques for Randomized Distributed Systems (2010) (1)
- Denotational Linear Time Semantics and Sequential Composition (1996) (1)
- Computing Conditional Probabilities in Markovian Models Efficiently ? Extended Version (2014) (1)
- Special issue of the 21st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2015) (2017) (1)
- An efficient algorithm tocompute the minimal and maximal probabilities for timed reachability incontinuous-time Markov decision processes (2003) (1)
- Büchi Objectives in Countable MDPs (2019) (1)
- Greener Bits: Formal Analysis of Demand Response (2016) (1)
- Solutions sets to systems of equations in hyperbolic groups are EDT0L in PSPACE (2019) (1)
- On the Foundations of Cycles in Bayesian Networks (2023) (1)
- Parameter Synthesis for Parametric Probabilistic Dynamical Systems and Prefix-Independent Specifications (2022) (1)
- Strategy Synthesis in Markov Decision Processes Under Limited Sampling Access (2023) (0)
- Foundations of probability-raising causality in Markov decision processes (2022) (0)
- Proceedings of SYANCO 2007 (2007) (0)
- Markov Chains and Unambiguous B\"uchi Automata (2016) (0)
- From Verification to Explanation (Track Introduction) (2020) (0)
- Positivity-hardness results on Markov decision processes (2023) (0)
- Witnessing subsystems for probabilistic systems with low tree width (2021) (0)
- 2 Büchi Objectives in Countable MDPs 1 Introduction (2019) (0)
- SYANCO 2007: international workshop on synthesis and analysis of component connectors (2007) (0)
- Delayed-Choice Semantics for Pomset Families and Message Sequence Graphs (2017) (0)
- EATCS Fellows 2021 - Call for Nominations (2020) (0)
- A Categorical Characterization of Consistency Results (1996) (0)
- 10031 Abstracts Collection - Quantitative Models: Expressiveness and Analysis (2010) (0)
- The Consistency of a Noninterleaving and an Interleaving Model for Full TCSP (1991) (0)
- The variance-penalized stochastic shortest path problem (2022) (0)
- Preface: Volume 22 (1999) (0)
- Technical Program Committee (2018) (0)
- Effectiveness of Pre-computed Knowledge in Self-adaptation - A Robustness Study (2022) (0)
- Magnifier: A Compositional Analysis Approach for Autonomous Traffic Control (2020) (0)
- Proceedings Combined 24th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 14th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics Berlin, Germany, 4th September 2017 : Preface (2017) (0)
- 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2019, July 9-12, 2019, Patras, Greece (2019) (0)
- Static Partial Order Reductions for Probabilistic Systems (2011) (0)
- Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Concurrency Theory (2006) (0)
- International workshop on Synthesis and analysis of component connectors: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting (2007) (0)
- CONCUR 2006 [Concurrency Theory, 16th International Conference] (2006) (0)
- Preface to the special issue on Probabilistic Model Checking (2013) (0)
- 2 Dynamic Ordered Sets with Approximate Queries , Approximate Heaps & Soft Heaps 1 (2019) (0)
- A hierarchical and modular control architecture for sequential behaviours (2014) (0)
- Metric Completion versus Ideal Completion [Extended Abstract] (1995) (0)
- 1 Title Quantitative Techniques for Dependable Distributed Systems ( QTDDS ) 2 Partners Country and Responsible Institutions and Participants Argentina (2008) (0)
- Quantitative Models : Expressiveness and Analysis Dagstuhl Seminar (2010) (0)
- Compositional construction of most general controllers (2015) (0)
- On the probabilistic bisimulation spectrum with silent moves (2020) (0)
- Validation of Continuous-Time Markov Systems (1999) (0)
- Proceedings of the International Workshop on Synthesis and Analysis of Component Connectors: in conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE joint meeting, SYANCO 2007, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-4, 2007 (2007) (0)
- Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations over GF ( 2 ) by a Parity-Counting Self-Reduction (2019) (0)
- Preface (1998) (0)
- On the definability of concurrency and communication : event structures versus pomset classes (1992) (0)
- 10031 Executive Summary - Quantitative Models: Expressiveness and Analysis (2010) (0)
- , D 2017 , Ensuring the Reliability of Your Model Checker : Interval Iteration for Markov Decision Processes . in (2017) (0)
- Special issue of the 21st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2015) (2017) (0)
- Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems (2018) (0)
- CONCUR 2006 - Concurrency Theory: 17th International Conference, CONCUR 2006, Bonn, Germany, August 27-30, 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (2006) (0)
- Cost-Utility Analysis in Probabilistic Models (2016) (0)
- Travel by women for women. (2005) (0)
- Dynamic Ordered Sets with Approximate Queries, Approximate Heaps and Soft Heaps (2019) (0)
- S Y ] 1 1 Ju l 2 01 7 Synthesis of Optimal Resilient Control Strategies ⋆ (0)
- Interaction detection in configurable systems - A formal approach featuring roles (2022) (0)
- Comparative Branching-Time Semantics for Markov Chains 3 and Continuous Stochastic (0)
- Preface SOFSEM 2017: theory and practice of computer science (2017) (0)
- The Algebraic Mu-Calculus and MTBDDsChristel (1998) (0)
- Advances in probabilistic model checking with PRISM: variable reordering, quantiles and weak deterministic Büchi automata (2017) (0)
- On the probabilistic bisimulation spectrum with silent moves (2020) (0)
- A Categorical Characterization of Consistency (1996) (0)
- A Probabilistic Semantics for (2008) (0)
- From Emerson-Lei automata to deterministic, limit-deterministic or good-for-MDP automata (2022) (0)
- Special issue: CONCUR 2006 (2008) (0)
- Optimal decision making for sperm chemotaxis in the presence of noise (2017) (0)
- EATCS Fellows 2020 - Call for Nominations (2019) (0)
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