Dejan Ničković

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Dejan Ničković was born in 1981 in Belgrade, Serbia. He obtained his B. Sc. (Hons.) in Information Technology from the University of Malta in 2003. In 2008 he finished his Ph.D. thesis under the liberal supervision of Oded Maler in the VERIMAG laboratory, Université Joseph Fourier (now Université Grenoble-Alpes) in France. After one year of post-doc in EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) and two years of post-doc in IST Austria with Tom Henzinger, he moved in 2011 to the Center for Digital Safety and Security of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), where he was promoted to Senior Scientist in 2015.

His research interests are in the domains of cyber-physical systems, runtime verification, testing, contract-based design, real-time systems.

News

  • Niveditha Manjunath successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Fault-based analysis cyber-physical systems". Congratulations Niveditha!

  • "Adaptive Testing for Specification Coverage" with Ezio Bartocci, Roderick Bloem, Benedikt Maderbacher and Niveditha Manjunath was accepted in ADHS21.

  • I presented "Runtime verification for rigorous engineering of cyber-physical systems " in RV Lectures @ ICTAC'20 on December 1st, 2020.

  • The Austrian FFG research project "ADEX - Autonomous Driving Examiner" with AVL, TU Wien and Prof. Ernst Pfleger was accepted for funding and started in November 2020.

  • The EU H2020 research project "FOCETA - Foundations for Continuous Engineering of Trustworthy Autonomy" with University of Grenoble-Alpes, TU Graz, University of Liverpool, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Fortiss, Denso, Intel, Siemens, Mentor Graphics, RGB Medical Devices and L-UP was accepted for funding and started in October 2020.

Conferences and Workshops

Recent publications

  • Ezio Bartocci, Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Felix Gigler, Cristinel Mateis, Dejan Nickovic, Xin Qin: Mining Shape Expressions From Positive Examples. IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 39(11): 3809-3820 (2020) (EMSOFT'20 paper) NEW!

  • Dejan Nickovic, Olivier Lebeltel, Oded Maler, Thomas Ferrère, Dogan Ulus: AMT 2.0: qualitative and quantitative trace analysis with extended signal temporal logic. Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf. 22(6): 741-758 (2020) NEW!

  • Ezio Bartocci, Niveditha Manjunath, Leonardo Mariani, Cristinel Mateis, Dejan Nickovic, Fabrizio Pastore: CPSDebug: a tool for explanation of failures in cyber-physical systems. ISSTA 2020: 569-572 NEW!

  • Wolfgang Granig, Stefan Jaksic, Horst Lewitschnig, Cristinel Mateis, Dejan Nickovic: Weakness Monitors for Fail-Aware Systems. FORMATS 2020: 283-299 NEW!

  • Dejan Nickovic, Tomoya Yamaguchi: RTAMT: Online Robustness Monitors from STL. ATVA 2020: 564-571 NEW!

  • Dejan Nickovic, Xin Qin, Thomas Ferrère, Cristinel Mateis, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh: Shape Expressions for Specifying and Extracting Signal Features. RV 2019: 292-309

  • Ezio Bartocci, Niveditha Manjunath, Leonardo Mariani, Cristinel Mateis, Dejan Nickovic: Automatic Failure Explanation in CPS Models. SEFM 2019: 69-86

  • Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Oded Maler, Dejan Nickovic: Specification Formalisms for Modern Cyber-Physical Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 19071). Dagstuhl Reports 9(2): 48-72 (2019)

  • Thomas Ferrère, Oded Maler, Dejan Nickovic: Mixed-Time Signal Temporal Logic. FORMATS 2019: 59-75

  • Thomas Ferrère, Oded Maler, Dejan Nickovic, Amir Pnueli: From Real-time Logic to Timed Automata. J. ACM 66(3): 19:1-19:31 (2019)

  • Thomas Ferrère, Dejan Nickovic, Alexandre Donzé, Hisahiro Ito, James Kapinski: "Interface-aware signal temporal logic". HSCC 2019, (accepted)

  • Stefan Jaksic, Ezio Bartocci, Radu Grosu, Thang Nguyen, Dejan Nickovic: Quantitative monitoring of STL with edit distance. Formal Methods in System Design 53(1): 83-112 (2018)

  • Albert Benveniste, Benoît Caillaud, Dejan Nickovic, Roberto Passerone, Jean-Baptiste Raclet, Philipp Reinkemeier, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Werner Damm, Thomas A. Henzinger, Kim G. Larsen: Contracts for System Design. Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation 12(2-3): 124-400 (2018)

  • Stefan Jaksic, Ezio Bartocci, Radu Grosu, Dejan Nickovic: An Algebraic Framework for Runtime Verification. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 37(11): 2233-2243 (2018)

  • Goran Frehse, Nikolaos Kekatos, Dejan Nickovic, Jens Oehlerking, Simone Schuler, Alexander Walsch, Matthias Woehrle: A Toolchain for Verifying Safety Properties of Hybrid Automata via Pattern Templates. ACC 2018: 2384-2391

  • Ezio Bartocci, Roderick Bloem, Dejan Nickovic, Franz Röck: A Counting Semantics for Monitoring LTL Specifications over Finite Traces. CAV (1) 2018: 547-564

  • Alexey Bakhirkin, Thom0000384as Ferrère, Thomas A. Henzinger, Dejan Nickovic: The first-order logic of signals: keynote. EMSOFT 2018: 1

  • Alexey Bakhirkin, Thomas Ferrère, Dejan Nickovic, Oded Maler, Eugene Asarin: Online Timed Pattern Matching Using Automata. FORMATS 2018: 215-232

  • Ezio Bartocci, Thomas Ferrère, Niveditha Manjunath, Dejan Nickovic: Localizing Faults in Simulink/Stateflow Models with STL. HSCC 2018: 197-206

  • Dejan Nickovic, Olivier Lebeltel, Oded Maler, Thomas Ferrère, Dogan Ulus: AMT 2.0: Qualitative and Quantitative Trace Analysis with Extended Signal Temporal Logic. TACAS (2) 2018: 303-319

  • Ezio Bartocci, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Alexandre Donzé, Georgios E. Fainekos, Oded Maler, Dejan Nickovic, Sriram Sankaranarayanan: Specification-Based Monitoring of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Survey on Theory, Tools and Applications. Lectures on Runtime Verification 2018: 135-175