Falk Howar
I am a professor at the chair for software engineering at Dortmund University of Technology.
I am interested in the development of correct and safe software systems with a particular focus on automated analysis, testing, and verification of such systems. My work is mainly based on automated generation of behavioral models of components, systems, and their environments using dynamic and static analysis techniques, e.g., automata learning, machine learning techniques, symbolic execution, or static code analysis.
I like to work on problems that have a strong motivation in practical challenges. Over the past few years, I applied my research to automotive and aeronautical control software, automated air-traffic management software, and in industrial software development tools:
Contact Details
- Email:
falk.howar[ at ]tu-dortmund.de - Address:
Dortmund University of Technology
Department of Computer Science
Lehrstuhl für Software Engineering (XIV)
Otto-Hahn-Str. 12
44227 Dortmund
Germany - Online:
TU Dortmund, researchgate, google scholar, dblp, linkedin.
Recent Publications
For a complete list check the publications page.
- Paul Fiterau-Brostean and Falk Howar. Learning Register Automata with Sequence Numbers and Windows of TCP Implementations. To appear in FMICS-AVoCS 2017.
- Malte Mauritz, Falk Howar, and Andreas Rausch. Assuring the Safety of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems through a Combination of Simulation and Runtime Monitoring. In ISoLA 2016, 2016.
- Adina Aniculaesei, Daniel Arnsberger, Falk Howar, and Andreas Rausch. Towards the Verification of Safety-critical Autonomous Systems in Unknown Environments. In V2CPS, 2016.
- Kasper Luckow, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Falk Howar, Malte Isberner, Marko Dimjasevic, Zvonimir Rakamaric, Vishwanath Raman and Temesghen Kahsai. JDart: A Dynamic Symbolic Analysis Framework. TACAS 2016.
- Henrik Peters, Falk Howar, Andreas Rausch. Towards inferring environment models for control functions from recorded signal data. 1st Int. Workshop on Validating Software Tests (VST 2016) at SANER 2016.
- [Best Artifact Award] Malte Isberner, Falk Howar, Bernhard Steffen. The Open-Source LearnLib - A Framework for Active Automata Learning. CAV 2015.
- Guillaume Brat, David H. Bushnell, Misty Davies, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Falk Howar, Temesghen Kahsai. Verifying the Safety of a Flight-Critical System. FM 2015.
- Sofia Cassel, Falk Howar and Bengt Jonsson. RALib: A LearnLib extension for inferring EFSMs. DIFTS 2015. [PDF]
- Malte Mauritz, Falk Howar, Andreas Rausch. From Simulation to Operation: Using Design Time Artifacts to Ensure the Safety of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems at Runtime. MASE 2015. [PDF]
- Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Falk Howar, Malte Isberner, Todd Lauderdale, Zvonimir Rakamaric, Vishwanath Raman. Taming test inputs for separation assurance. ASE 2014.
- Sofia Cassel, Falk Howar, Bengt Jonsson, Bernhard Steffen. Learning Extended Finite State Machines. SEFM 2014.
Tools
For links and detailed descriptions check the tools page.
- jConstraints: a constraint solver abstraction layer for Java
- jDart: a framework for dynamic symbolic execution of Java programs
- PSYCO: a symbolic behavioral interfaces for Java components
- RaLib: an extension of LearnLib for Register Automata
- LearnLib: a library for automata learning
Service
Editor
I am currently one of the managing editors of electronic communications of the European Association of Software Science and Technology (ECEASST)
Program Committees
- 2017: TACAS 2018, LearnAut 2017, JPF WS 2017
- 2016: TACAS 2017, NFM 2016, ICGI 2016, ISoLA 2016
- 2015: VST2016, SEFM 2015, SOFSEM 2015, JPF WS 2015
- 2014: Artifact Evaluation of ISSTA 2014 (Chair), SEFM 2014, ICGI 2014, JPF WS 2014, ISoLA 2014
- 2013: JPF WS 2013
- 2012: ISoLA 2012, JIMSE 2012
- 2011: EternalS 2011, Int. ISoLA WS on Machine Learning for Software Construction
- 2010: RERS Workshop at ISoLA 2010
In the News
- [February 2017] CACM article and title page on model learning by Frits Vaandrager mentions LearnLib and RaLib (CACM Vol. 60 No. 2, Pages 86-95) [Link to Article]
- [2016/12/28] Interview on the research of IPSSE in Braunschweiger Zeitung [Photo of the Article]
- [2016/07/06] The Prime Minister of Lower Saxony visited IPSSE on July 5th, 2016. [Article on tu-clausthal.de]