OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Strong Simple Policies for POMDPs	43
Introduction to the Special Issue on Runtime Verification	26
Verification and synthesis of co-simulation algorithms subject to algebraic loops and adaptive steps	22
Predicate monitoring in distributed cyber-physical systems	18
From linear temporal logic and limit-deterministic Büchi automata to deterministic parity automata	16
DivSIM , an interactive simulator for LLVM bitcode	14
State of the art in program analysis	14
Formal verification and security analysis of MQTT-SN	13
Interface control document modeling with Citrus (avionics systems interfaces)	12
Rigorous engineering of collective adaptive systems – 2nd special section	11
Formal methods and tools for industrial critical systems	11
GSDetector: a tool for automatic detection of bad smells in GRL goal models	9
Generating adaptation rule-specific neural networks	9
MoonLight: a lightweight tool for monitoring spatio-temporal properties	8
Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems	8
Monitoring with verified guarantees	8
Interactive abstract interpretation: reanalyzing multithreaded C programs for cheap	8
Automated property-based testing from AADL component contracts	8
LLM-based code generation and system migration in language-driven engineering	8
Verifiable strategy synthesis for multiple autonomous agents: a scalable approach	8
A modal approach to conscious social agents	7
An automated framework for verifying or refuting trace properties of extended finite state machines	7
Evaluation of a distributed explicit state space exploration algorithm with state reconstruction for RDMA networks	7
Software test results exploration and visualization with continuous integration and nightly testing	7
What is the best algorithm for MDP model checking?	6

An adaptive, provable correct simplex architecture	6
Conformance in the railway industry: Single-Input-Change testing a EULYNX controller	6
Compositional runtime enforcement of safety and co-safety timed properties	6
Monitoring of spatio-temporal properties with nonlinear SAT solvers	6
Randomized reachability analysis in UPPAAL: fast error detection in timed systems	6
Exploring the ERTMS/ETCS full moving block specification: an experience with formal methods	6
Pattern-based verification of ROS 2 applications using UPPAAL	5
Rance Cleaveland: a life for formal methods	5
Envelopes and waves: safe multivehicle collision avoidance for horizontal non-deterministic turns	5
Visualization, transformation, and analysis of execution traces with the eclipse TRACE4CPS trace tool	5
User-assisted code query customization and optimization	5
WhyRel: an auto-active relational verifier	5
ccReact: a rewriting framework for the formal analysis of reaction systems	4
Reusable formal models for concurrency and communication in custom real-time operating systems	4
Deterministic state space exploration	4
First three years of the international verification of neural networks competition (VNN-COMP)	4
Bounded DBM-based clock state construction for timed automata in Uppaal	4
Preface to the special issue on engineering of computer-based systems	4
Certification of avionic software based on machine learning: the case for formal monotony analysis	4
A verified low-level implementation and visualization of the adaptive exterior light and speed control system	4
The Reactive Synthesis Competition (SYNTCOMP): 2018–2021	4
AutoHyper: leveraging language inclusion checking for hyperproperty model-checking	4
Correct by design coordination of autonomous driving systems	4
The CoLiS platform for the analysis of maintainer scripts in Debian software packages	3
Analysis of recurrent neural networks via property-directed verification of surrogate models	3
Correct orchestration of federated learning generic algorithms: Python translation to CSP and verification by PAT	3
A technology transfer journey to a model-driven access control system	3
Reproducible and hackable software benchmarking with(out) compute clusters	3
An Event-B model of an automotive adaptive exterior light system	3
Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems: a special issue for TACAS 2017	3
A causal, time-independent synchronization pattern for collective adaptive systems	2
Formal analysis of an AUTOSAR-based basic software module	2
Explanation Paradigms Leveraging Analytic Intuition (ExPLAIn)	2
Machine-learning abstractions for component-based self-optimizing systems	2
Interleaving static analysis and LLM prompting with applications to error specification inference	2
Publisher Correction: Algorithm selection for SMT	2
Diamont: dynamic monitoring of uncertainty for distributed asynchronous programs	2
Rigorous pattern matching as a language feature	2
Program analysis using empirical abstraction	2
Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems: a special issue for TACAS 2020	2
Coordinating and programming multiple ROS-based robots with X-KLAIM	2
Verified Propagation Redundancy and Compositional UNSAT Checking in CakeML	2
Towards rigorous understanding of neural networks via semantics-preserving transformations	2
A toolchain for strategy synthesis with spatial properties	2
An overview of structural coverage metrics for testing neural networks	2
Challenges of software verification: the past, the present, the future	2
Validating multiple variants of an automotive light system with Alloy 6	2
Leveraging static analysis for cost-aware serverless scheduling policies	2
Containers for specification in SPARK	2
Learning of behavioural models and dependency graphs for communicating systems with CkTailv2	2

A compositional framework for algebraic quantitative online monitoring over continuous-time signals	1
SaBRe: load-time selective binary rewriting	1
Programming event monitors	1
Machine learning-based cache miss prediction	1
When long jumps fall short: control-flow tracking and misuse detection for nonlocal jumps in C	1
Reformulating regression test suite optimization using quantum annealing - an empirical study	1
Pragmatics of formally verified yet efficient static analysis, in particular, for formally verified compilers	1
Generating test as a web service (TaaWS) through a method-based attribute grammar	1
Analyzing neural network behavior through deep statistical model checking	1
Integrating formal specifications in the development and testing of UIs by formal model–view–controller pattern	1
Approximate verification of concurrent systems using token structures and invariants	1
Static analysis to make the most of CHERI C/C++ for existing code: improving memory safety at scale	1
Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems: a special issue on tool papers for TACAS 2021	1
Temporal-logic query checking over finite data streams	1
Parameterized verification of systems with component identities, using view abstraction	1
Language support for verifying reconfigurable interacting systems	1
Introduction to the special issue for SPIN 2021	1
Formal modeling and verification for amplification timing anomalies in the superscalar TriCore architecture	1
Challenges of software verification	1
SyReNN: A tool for analyzing deep neural networks	1
The power of typed affine decision structures: a case study	1
Machine learning-based ambient temperature prediction in radio access network environments	1
Debugging convergence problems in probabilistic programs via program representation learning with SixthSense	1
Analysis of non-Markovian repairable fault trees through rare event simulation	1
RTAMT – Runtime Robustness Monitors with Application to CPS and Robotics	1
Correction to: How to model and prove hybrid systems with KeYmaera: a tutorial on safety	1
Non-numerical weakly relational domains	1
Speeding up static analysis with the split operator	1
An evaluation of approaches to model checking real-time task schedulability analysis	1
A kinetic approach to investigate the collective dynamics of multi-agent systems	1
Formally verifying decompositions of stochastic specifications	1
Analysing futex-based synchronisation primitives using model checking	1
Software verification challenges in the blockchain ecosystem	1
Replicable theory	1
Supporting safe metamodel evolution with edelta	1
On the applicability of hybrid systems safety verification tools from the automotive perspective	1
Decision-making under uncertainty: beyond probabilities	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Runtime Verification	1
Generating interactive documents for domain-specific validation of formal models	1
Verifying OpenJDK’s LinkedList using KeY (extended paper)	1
Modelling flocks of birds and colonies of ants from the bottom up	1
IoT backends in the Asset Administration Shell – four integration approaches	1
Efficient and expressive bytecode-level instrumentation for Java programs	1
A process for creating KDM2PSM transformation engines	1
Combining rule- and SMT-based reasoning for verifying floating-point Java programs in KeY	1