Many real-world systems involve repeatedly making decisions under uncertainty—for instance, choosing one of the several products to recommend to a user in an online recommendation service, or dynamically allocating resources among available stock options in a financial market. Machine learning (ML) algorithms driving these systems typically operate under the assumption…
Mahmoud Salamati and Rupak Majumdar have received the Best Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2018) for their paper entitled “Approximate Time Bounded Reachability for CTMCs and CTMDPs: A Lyapunov Approach” (with Sadegh Soudjani from Newcastle University).
The French Data Protection Authority CNIL has recognized the benefits of Diffix anonymization by republishing an article by Paul Francis in which the utility of Diffix anonymization is highlighted. Diffix is the anonymization technology developed in joint research between Francis' group and Aircloak GmbH. Last year, CNIL published an article titled…
MPI-SWS researcher Mitra Nasri will join TU Delft as an assistant professor starting October 1, 2018. Congratulations, Mitra!
Four papers to appear at OOPSLA'18 have been (co)-authored by MPI-SWS members. Horn-ICE Learning for Synthesizing Invariants and Contracts. Deepak D'Souza, Ezudheen P, Pranav Garg, Daniel Neider, P. Madhusudan. Randomized Testing of Distributed Systems with Probabilistic Guarantees. Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Rupak Majumdar, Filip Niksic, Mitra Tabaei Befrouei, Georg Weissenbacher. Reconciling High-level Optimizations…
