Formal Modelling and Analysis of Embedded Systems

Focus:

Focuses on techniques and tools for formal modelling, analysis, and verification of real-time, adaptive, autonomous, cloud-based, and 5G-based systems. In particular, we focus on the formal syntax and semantics of component-based, service-oriented, and cloud-based models with extra-functional requirements with respect to timing and resource usage.


Division:

Division of Networked and Embedded Systems

Currently, most embedded systems must function in a distributed setting, communicating with other systems, often unknown at the time of their creation, over networks or other communication channels. In this context, systematic techniques for managing complexity and for ensuring critical system properties during design become a necessity. Formal modeling and analysis techniques, by their very nature, can play a significant role in this regard.

One of the main targets of the Formal Modeling and Analysis of Embedded Systems research group is to develop rigorous/formal frameworks (theory and tools) for designing and verifying embedded systems, be they resource-constrained real-time systems, ambient assisted living or autonomous cyber-physical systems (e.g., autonomous heavy vehicles, drones etc.), as well as to provide mathematical means of predicting and assuring their behaviors at early stages of system development. In addition, we enhance the formal analysis frameworks with testing capabilities against functional, timing, and energy-usage requirements, which rely on similar techniques as verification (e.g. model checking), yet set the premises for testing code.

Latest research includes:

  • Modeling and Verifying Functional, Timing, and Resource-usage Behavior of Embedded Systems (supported by REMES IDE)
  • Automatic test generation for Industrial Safety-critical Control Systems (supported by CompleteTest tool)
  • Pattern-based Requirements Specification and Consistency Analysis: supported by the tools ProPas and ReSA (Tutorial)
  • Statistical Model Checking (supported by the SIMPPAAL tool) and Bounded Model Checking (supported by the SyMC tool) of Industrial Simulink Models
  • Automated Verification of Atomic Concurrent Real-Time Transactions (supported by the UPPCART framework)
  • Assurance of Intelligent Ambient Assisted Living Solutions (using the tools UPPAAL, UPPAAL SMC, and PRISM)
  • Formal Verification of Complex Robotic Systems
  • Strategy Synthesis and Collision-Avoidance Verification for Autonomous Agents
  • Model checking 5G Service Orchestration
Project TitleStatus
A Digital Twin Framework for Dynamic and Robust Distributed Systems active
Performant and Flexible digital Systems through Verifiable AI active
RELIANT Industrial graduate school: Reliable, Safe and Secure Intelligent Autonomous Systems active
Rich Testing of Software active
SmartDelta: Automated Quality Assurance and Optimization in Incremental Industrial Software Systems Development active
Trustworthy and Human-Centered Test Automation active
ACICS - Assured Cloud Platforms for Industrial Cyber-physical Systems finished
Adequacy-based Testing of Extra-Functional Properties of Embedded Systems (VR) finished
ARROWS - Design Techniques for Adaptive Embedded Systems finished
CAMI - Artificially intelligent ecosystem for self-management and sustainable quality of life in AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) finished
DAGGERS - Data aggregation for embedded real-time database systems finished
DPAC - Dependable Platforms for Autonomous systems and Control finished
Embedded Systems Verification using Timed Automata Technology (VR) finished
Health5G: Future eHealth powered by 5G finished
MBAT - Combined Model-based Analysis and Testing (Artemis/Vinnova) finished
PERformance-based Formal modelling and Optimal tRaffic Management for movING-block RAILway signalling finished
PG-CBD-CVer – Component Verification finished
Q-ImPreSS - Quality Impact Prediction for Evolving Service-oriented Software finished
V-trustEE finished
VeriDevOps - Automated Protection and Prevention to Meet Security Requirements in DevOps Environments finished
VeriSpec - Structured Specification and Automated Verification for Automotive Functional Safety finished
XIVT - eXcellence in Variant Testing finished

[Show all publications]

Contract-based Verification of Digital Twins (Jul 2025)
Muhammad Naeem, Cristina Seceleanu
International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2025)

Gaps in Software Testing Education: A Survey of Academic Courses in Sweden (May 2025)
Ayodele Barrett, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Wasif Afzal
IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T25)

State of Test Optimization for Variability in Industry (Apr 2025)
Muhammad Abbas Khan, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Bernd-Holger Schlingloff
22nd International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2025)

Learning single and compound-protocol automata and checking behavioral equivalences (Apr 2025)
Stefan Marksteiner, David Schögler , Marjan Sirjani, Mikael Sjödin
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)

Automated Test Generation: Taxonomy and Tool Applications (Apr 2025)
Eduard Paul Enoiu, Nasir Mehmood Minhas, Michael Felderer , Wasif Afzal
Fundamentals of Software Engineering 2025 (FSEN'25)

SmartDelta Methodology: Automated Quality Assurance and Optimization for Incremental System Engineering (Apr 2025)
Benedikt Dornauer , Michael Felderer , Mehrdad Saadatmand, Muhammad Abbas Khan, Nicolas Bonnotte , Andreas Dreschinski , Eduard Paul Enoiu, Baykal Mehmet Uçar , Ömercan Devran , Robin Gröpler
22nd International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2025)


Cristina Seceleanu, Professor

Room: U1-194
Phone: +46-70-2837717