2026

  • A quasi-stationary distribution bound for fault analysis in gene regulatory networks

    Fabricio Cravo, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    Journal of The Royal Society Interface · 2026

  • Accurate closed-form delay formulas for interconnected CMOS gates based on first-order thresholded hybrid systems

    Arman Ferdowsi, Matthias Függer, Josef Salzmann, Ulrich Schmid

    Integration · 2026

  • Adding “Verified” Badges to Our Paper, One Lemma at a Time

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    Bulletin of EATCS · 2026

  • Agent-Alternation-Free Epistemic Metric Temporal Logic with Past: Model Checking and Complexity

    Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Paul Zeinaty

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.13981 · 2026

  • Asymptotic Subspace Consensus in Dynamic Networks

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    5th Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2026) · 2026

  • Centralized Yet Scalable: Revisiting Policy Design for Cooperative Multi-agent Learning

    Zhuofan Xu, Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Vincent Le Dréau

    Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases · 2026

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning with Permutation Equivariant Neural Network for Multi-Armed Bandit

    Zhuofan Xu, Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools · 2026

  • Efficient Stochastic Trace Generation for Transcription

    Arman Ferdowsi, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology · 2026

  • Embedding response surfaces in kinetic models predicts microalgae growth across light and nutrient gradients

    Mélanie Pietri, Thomas Rodet, Bruno Le Pioufle, Thomas Nowak, Matthias Függer, Sakina Bensalem

    Bioresource Technology · 2026

  • Lean Proofs and Video Creation Scripts for the Paper “Asymptotic Subspace Consensus in Dynamic Networks”

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    2026 · Software, source code

  • Promoting Simple Agents: Ensemble Methods for Event-Log Prediction

    Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Paul Zeinaty

    Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications: 6th International Conference, OL2A 2026, Proceedings, Part I · 2026 · To appear

  • Provable Coordination for LLM Agents via Message Sequence Charts

    Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA) · 2026 · Accepted, to appear

  • Reaching agreement in competitive microbial systems

    Victoria Andaur, Janna Burman, Matthias Függer, Bilal Manssouri, Thomas Nowak, Joel Rybicki

    Natural Computing · 2026

2025

  • Centralized Permutation Equivariant Policy for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Zhuofan Xu, Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Vincent Le Dréau

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11706 · 2025

  • Distributed computing inspired by biology

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Kerian Thuillier

    Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology · 2025

  • Faithful dynamic timing analysis of digital circuits using continuous thresholded mode-switched ODEs

    Arman Ferdowsi, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid, Michael Drmota

    Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems · 2025

  • Investigating the Effects of Permanent Faults in QDI Circuits: A Formal Perspective

    Raghda El Shehaby, Matthias Függer, Florian Huemer, Andreas Steininger

    2025 29th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2025

  • MobsPy: A programming language for biochemical reaction networks

    Fabricio Cravo, Gayathri Prakash, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    PLOS Computational Biology · 2025

  • Phage-mediated intercellular CRISPRi for biocomputation in bacterial consortia

    Abhinav Pujar, Amit Pathania, Corbin Hopper, Amir Pandi, Cristian Ruiz Calderón, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Manish Kushwaha

    Nucleic Acids Research · 2025

  • SeAL: A Provably Complete Fault-Injection Tool for Asynchronous Circuits

    Raghda El Shehaby, Matthias Függer, Florian Huemer, Andreas Steininger

    2025 32nd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) · 2025

2024

  • A Framework for Streaming Event-Log Prediction in Business Processes

    Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.16032 · 2024

  • An Allee-based distributed algorithm for microbial whole-cell sensors

    Fabricio Cravo, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    npj Systems Biology and Applications · 2024

  • Majority consensus thresholds in competitive Lotka–Volterra populations

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Joel Rybicki

    Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) · 2024

  • Permutation Equivariant Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Armed Bandit

    Zhuofan Xu, Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) · 2024

2023

  • A hybrid delay model for interconnected multi-input gates

    Arman Ferdowsi, Matthias Függer, Josef Salzmann, Ulrich Schmid

    2023 26th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) · 2023

  • Continuity of Thresholded Mode-Switched ODEs and Digital Circuit Delay Models

    Arman Ferdowsi, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

    Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) · 2023

  • On the Susceptibility of QDI Circuits to Transient Faults

    Raghda El Shehaby, Matthias Függer, Andreas Steininger

    Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS) · 2023

  • PALS: Distributed Gradient Clocking on Chip

    Johannes Bund, Matthias Függer, Moti Medina

    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 2023

2022

  • A synthetic communication system uncovers extracellular immunity that self-limits bacteriophage transmission

    Amit Pathania, Corbin Hopper, Amir Pandi, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Manish Kushwaha

    bioRxiv · 2022

  • Computing at the border of abstractions: the power of timed, non-binary, distributed circuits

    Matthias Függer

    ENS Paris-Saclay, France · 2022

  • Delay element, delay element chain and fast all-digital clock frequency adaptation circuit for voltage droop tolerance

    Christoph Lenzen, Matthias Függer, Ben Wiederhake, Attila Kinali, Mordechai Medina

    2022

  • Distributed computation with continual population growth

    Da-Jung Cho, Matthias Függer, Corbin Hopper, Manish Kushwaha, Thomas Nowak, Quentin Soubeyran

    Distributed Computing · 2022

  • Fast All-Digital Clock Frequency Adaptation Circuit for Voltage Droop Tolerance

    Matthias Függer, Attila Kinali, Christoph Lenzen, Ben Wiederhake

    IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2022

  • MobsPy: A Meta-Species Language for Chemical Reaction Networks

    Fabricio Cravo, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Gayathri Prakash

    Computational Methods in Systems Biology · 2022

  • On Specifications and Proofs of Timed Circuits

    Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen, Ulrich Schmid

    2022

  • Synthesis in Presence of Dynamic Links

    Béatrice Bérard, Benedikt Bollig, Patricia Bouyer, Matthias Függer, Nathalie Sznajder

    Information and Computation · 2022

2021

  • A Composable Glitch-Aware Delay Model

    Jürgen Maier, Daniel Öhlinger, Ulrich Schmid, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    Proceedings of the 2021 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI · 2021

  • Generation of a fault-tolerant clock through redundant crystal oscillators

    Wolfgang Dür, Matthias Függer, Andreas Steininger

    Microelectronics Reliability · 2021

  • The Involution Tool for Accurate Digital Timing and Power Analysis

    Daniel Öhlinger, Jürgen Maier, Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid

    Integration · 2021

  • Tight Bounds for Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Manfred Schwarz

    Journal of the ACM (JACM) · 2021

2020

  • A Faithful Binary Circuit Model

    Matthias Függer, Robert Najvirt, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

    IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2020

  • Digital Circuit Design for Biological and Silicon Computers

    Matthias Függer, Manish Kushwaha, Thomas Nowak

    Advances in Synthetic Biology · 2020

  • Distributed Computation with Continual Population Growth

    Da-Jung Cho, Matthias Függer, Corbin Hopper, Manish Kushwaha, Thomas Nowak, Quentin Soubeyran

    34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) · 2020

  • On the radius of nonsplit graphs and information dissemination in dynamic networks

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Kyrill Winkler

    Discrete Applied Mathematics · 2020

  • PALS: Plesiochronous and Locally Synchronous Systems

    Johannes Bund, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen, Moti Medina, Will Rosenbaum

    26th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2020

  • Synchronizer-Free Digital Link Controller

    Johannes Bund, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen, Moti Medina

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I · 2020

  • Synthesis in Presence of Dynamic Links

    Béatrice Bérard, Benedikt Bollig, Patricia Bouyer, Matthias Függer, Nathalie Sznajder

    Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification (GandALF'20) · 2020

2019

  • Efficient and dependable clock synchronization in hardware

    Christoph Lenzen, Matthias Függer, Attila Kinali, Stephan Friedrichs, Moti Medina

    2019

  • The Involution Tool for Accurate Digital Timing and Power Analysis

    Daniel Öhlinger, Jürgen Maier, Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid

    29th International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS) · 2019

  • Transistor-Level Analysis of Dynamic Delay Models

    Jürgen Maier, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

    25th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2019

2018

  • A Faithful Binary Circuit Model with Adversarial Noise

    Matthias Függer, Jürgen Maier, Robert Najvirt, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

    Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) · 2018

  • Fast All-Digital Clock Frequency Adaptation Circuit for Voltage Droop Tolerance

    Matthias Függer, Attila Kinali, Christoph Lenzen, Ben Wiederhake

    IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2018

  • Fast Multidimensional Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    32nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) · 2018

  • Metastability-Containing Circuits

    Stephan Friedrichs, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen

    IEEE Transactions on Computers · 2018

  • Tight Bounds for Asymptotic and Approximate Consensus

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Manfred Schwarz

    ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) · 2018

2017

  • Brief Announcement: Lower Bounds for Asymptotic Consensus in Dynamic Networks

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Manfred Schwarz

    31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) · 2017

  • Metastability Tolerant Computing

    Ghaith Tarawneh, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen

    IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2017

  • Metastability-Aware Memory-Efficient Time-to-Digital Converter

    Matthias Függer, Attila Kinali, Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Polzer

    IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2017

  • New transience bounds for max-plus linear systems

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    Discrete Applied Mathematics · 2017

2016

  • Fast, Robust, Quantizable Approximate Consensus

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) · 2016

  • HEX: Scaling honeycombs is easier than scaling clock trees

    Danny Dolev, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen, Martin Perner, Ulrich Schmid

    Journal of Computer and System Sciences · 2016

  • Multidimensional Asymptotic Consensus in Dynamic Networks

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    CoRR · 2016

  • Unfaithful Glitch Propagation in Existing Binary Circuit Models

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

    IEEE Transactions on Computers · 2016

2015

  • Approximate Consensus in Highly Dynamic Networks: The Role of Averaging Algorithms

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) · 2015

  • Diffusive clock synchronization in highly dynamic networks

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Bernadette Charron-Bost

    2015 49th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) · 2015

  • Experimental Validation of a Faithful Binary Circuit Model

    Robert Najvirt, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid, Michael Hofbauer, Kurt Schweiger

    Proceedings of the 25th Edition on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) · 2015

  • Fault-tolerant Distributed Systems in Hardware

    Danny Dolev, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen, Ulrich Schmid, Andreas Steininger

    Bulletin of EATCS · 2015

  • The effect of forgetting on the performance of a synchronizer

    Matthias Függer, Alexander Kößler, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid, Martin Zeiner

    Performance Evaluation · 2015

  • Time Complexity of Link Reversal Routing

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Jennifer L. Welch, Josef Widder

    ACM Transactions on Algorithms · 2015

  • Towards Binary Circuit Models That Faithfully Capture Physical Solvability

    Matthias Függer, Robert Najvirt, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

    Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) · 2015

2014

  • Fault-tolerant Algorithms for Tick-generation in Asynchronous Logic: Robust Pulse Generation

    Danny Dolev, Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid, Christoph Lenzen

    Journal of the ACM (JACM) · 2014

  • Rigorously modeling self-stabilizing fault-tolerant circuits: An ultra-robust clocking scheme for systems-on-chip

    Danny Dolev, Matthias Függer, Markus Posch, Ulrich Schmid, Andreas Steininger, Christoph Lenzen

    Journal of Computer and System Sciences · 2014

  • Runtime verification of embedded real-time systems

    Thomas Reinbacher, Matthias Függer, Jörg Brauer

    Formal Methods in System Design · 2014

  • The Effect of Forgetting on the Performance of a Synchronizer

    Matthias Függer, Alexander Kößler, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid, Martin Zeiner

    Algorithms for Sensor Systems · 2014

2013

  • Efficient Construction of Global Time in SoCs Despite Arbitrary Faults

    Christoph Lenzen, Matthias Függer, Markus Hofstätter, Ulrich Schmid

    2013 Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) · 2013

  • HEX: scaling honeycombs is easier than scaling clock trees

    Danny Dolev, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen, Martin Perner, Ulrich Schmid

    Proceedings of the 25th ACM symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures (SPAA) · 2013

  • New transience bounds for long walks in weighted digraphs

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    The Seventh European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications · 2013

  • On the performance of a retransmission-based synchronizer

    Thomas Nowak, Matthias Függer, Alexander Kößler

    Theoretical Computer Science · 2013

  • Transience Bounds for Distributed Algorithms

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak

    Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS) · 2013

  • Unfaithful Glitch Propagation in Existing Binary Circuit Models

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak, Ulrich Schmid

    2013 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2013

2012

  • Brief Announcement: The Degrading Effect of Forgetting on a Synchronizer

    Matthias Függer, Alexander Kößler, Thomas Nowak, Martin Zeiner

    International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) · 2012

  • Efficient Checking of Link-Reversal-Based Concurrent Systems

    Matthias Függer, Josef Widder

    International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) · 2012

  • Real-Time Runtime Verification on Chip

    Thomas Reinbacher, Matthias Függer, Jörg Brauer

    International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV) · 2012

  • Reconciling fault-tolerant distributed computing and systems-on-chip

    Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid

    Distributed Computing · 2012

2011

  • Brief announcement: full reversal routing as a linear dynamical system

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Jennifer L. Welch, Josef Widder

    23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) · 2011

  • Fault-Tolerant Algorithms for Tick-Generation in Asynchronous Logic: Robust Pulse Generation - [Extended Abstract]

    Danny Dolev, Matthias Függer, Christoph Lenzen, Ulrich Schmid

    International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) · 2011

  • Full Reversal Routing as a Linear Dynamical System

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Jennifer L. Welch, Josef Widder

    Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 18th International Colloquium (SIROCCO) · 2011

  • On the Performance of a Retransmission-Based Synchronizer

    Thomas Nowak, Matthias Függer, Alexander Kößler

    Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 18th International Colloquium (SIROCCO) · 2011

  • Partial is Full

    Bernadette Charron-Bost, Matthias Függer, Jennifer L. Welch, Josef Widder

    Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 18th International Colloquium (SIROCCO) · 2011

2010

  • Analysis of On-Chip Fault-Tolerant Distributed Algorithms

    Matthias Függer

    Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Technische Informatik · 2010

  • How to Speed-Up Fault-Tolerant Clock Generation in VLSI Systems-on-Chip via Pipelining

    Matthias Függer, Andreas Dielacher, Ulrich Schmid

    Eighth European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) · 2010

2009

  • Brief announcement: How to speed-up fault-tolerant clock generation in VLSI systems-on-chip via pipelining

    Andreas Dielacher, Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid

    Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) · 2009

  • On the Stability and Robustness of Non-Synchronous Circuits with Timing Loops

    Matthias Függer, Gottfried Fuchs, Ulrich Schmid, Andreas Steininger

    3rd Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing · 2009

  • On the Threat of Metastability in an Asynchronous Fault-Tolerant Clock Generation Scheme

    Gottfried Fuchs, Matthias Függer, Andreas Steininger

    15th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) · 2009

  • Safely Stimulating the Clock Synchronization Algorithm in Time-Triggered Systems–A Combined Formal and Experimental Approach

    Matthias Függer, Eric Armengaud, Andreas Steininger

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 2009

2008

  • Mapping a Fault-Tolerant Distributed Algorithm to Systems on Chip

    Gottfried Fuchs, Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid, Andreas Steininger

    11th Euromicro conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD) · 2008

  • Safe Deterministic Replay for Stimulating the Clock Synchronization Algorithm in Time-Triggered Systems

    Eric Armengaud, Matthias Függer, Andreas Steininger

    7th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS) · 2008

2006

  • An Efficient Test for a Transition Signalling based Up-/Down-Counter

    Matthias Függer, Thomas Handl, Andreas Steininger, Josef Widder, Christian Toegel

    The Austrian National Conference on the Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (Austrochip) · 2006

  • Analysis of Constraints in a Fault-Tolerant Distributed Clock Generation Scheme

    Gottfried Fuchs, Matthias Függer, Andreas Steininger, Franz Zangerl

    3rd International Workshop on Dependable Embedded Systems (WDES) · 2006

  • Fault-Tolerant Algorithms on SoCs–A case study

    Andreas Steininger, Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid, Gottfried Fuchs

    Supplemental Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) · 2006

  • Fault-Tolerant Distributed Clock Generation in VLSI Systems-on-Chip

    Matthias Függer, Ulrich Schmid, Gottfried Fuchs, Gerald Kempf

    Sixth European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) · 2006

2005

  • Small PC-Network Simulation–A Comprehensive Performance Case Study

    Daniel Albeseder, Matthias Függer, Felix Breitenecker, Thomas Löscher, Shabnam Tauböck

    Simulation News Europe · 2005

2004

  • Embedded Real-Time-Tracer – An Approach with IDE

    Babak Rahbaran, Matthias Függer, Andreas Steininger

    Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES) · 2004

  • Embedded Real-Time-Tracer–An Approach with IDE

    Babak Rahbaran, Matthias Függer, Andreas Steininger

    Telematik · 2004