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The Leaked Tesla Files and Their Implications for ADAS Safety

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The leak: The German newspaper Handelsblatt recently obtained access to over 100 Gigabytes of leaked files from internal Tesla systems. These files cover a range of information, including confidential employee data, Cybertruck development details, and customer claims and problem reports related to Tesla’s ADAS products (full self-driving and autopilot). Fraunhofer SIT has assessed the leaked …

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Maybach-Seminar “Wenn die Software fährt – Kann man der Software im Auto sein Leben anvertrauen?”

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Am Dienstag den 09. Mai von 18:00-20:00 Uhr werde ich im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe Maybach-Seminar, der DHBW Ravensburg und dem IWT Institut für Weiterbildung, Wissens- und Technologietransfer, einen Vortrag zum Thema “Wenn die Software fährt – Kann man der Software im Auto sein Leben anvertrauen?” halten.

SPIN 2014 Talk: SpinCause: A Tool for Causality Checking

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Today I talked at the SPIN 2014 symposium in San Jose, CA about the SpinCause tool. The slides for my talk are available here. In this paper we present the SpinCause tool for causality checking of Promela and PRISM models. We give an overview of the capabilities of SpinCause and briefly sketch how the causality checking …

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1st International Conference Automotive Embedded Systems

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I’m happy to announce that I will chair the 1st International Conference Automotive Embedded Systems. The Automotive Embedded Systems conference focuses on the challenges of nowadays automotive software and systems development. The conference will be held from 25 – 27 February 2014 at the Lindner Hotel Airport, Düsseldorf, Germany. We will discuss emerging trends in automotive …

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Functional Safety Book recommendation: Design and Safety Assessment of Critical Systems

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I have updated my list of literature on functional safety with the book of Marco Bozzano et al.. The book is a very well written introduction into the topic of safety assessment and functional safety and I can recommend it for readers on beginner levels as well as for functional safety experts that want learn more about formal …

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AVM 2013 Talk: Recent Advances in Causality Checking

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On Tuesday May 28th 2013 I gave a talk at the Alpine Verification Meeting in Trento Italy with the title “Recent Advances in Causality Checking”.  Abstract: In recent work on the safety analysis of systems we have shown how causal relationships amongst events can be algorithmically inferred from probabilistic counterexamples and subsequently be mapped to fault …

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Speaking at 3rd International Conference Applying ISO 26262

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I will be speaking at the 3rd International Conference Applying ISO 26262 on Thursday March, 21 2013. The title of my talk is  “Model-based Engineering and ISO26262” and I will talk about our experiences in using model-based engineering in an ISO 26262 context and lessons learned that we identified. If you are at the conference and …

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Causality Checking for Complex System Models (Talk at VMCAI 2013)

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I gave a talk on causality checking for complex system models at the VMCAI 2013 conference in Rome, Italy. The slides of my talk are available here. Abstract: With the increasing growth of the size and complexity of modern safety-critical systems, the demand for model based engineering methods that both help in architecting such systems …

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Causality Checking at Microsoft Research

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Stefan Leue, my PhD supervisor, recently visited Microsoft Research in Redmond and gave a lecture on the Causality Checking method we currently develop. Causality Checking will make up a large part of my PhD thesis. A video of the lecture is available online here. Here is the abstract of his talk: I will introduce Causality Checking, a technique …

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