UMR CNRS 7253

Professor at “Université de Technologie de Compiègne”
Department of Computer engineering
Laboratoire Heudiasyc UMR CNRS 7253
57 Avenue de Landshut
60200 Compiègne Cedex
France
Tel : 33 (0)3 44 23 44 83
Fax : 33 (0)3 44 23 44 77
Email wschon@utc.fr

* Dependability assessment of systems using uncertainty theories (Probability theory, Imprecise probabilities, Belief functions theory, Fuzzy set theory); * Dependability of railway systems (European Rail Traffic Management System: ERTMS) and railway safety standards; * Graphical models for Risk assessment (Valuation Based Systems (VBS), Statecharts, Bayesian networks); * Importance measures and Risk-informed decision making; * Reliability allocation and optimization problems; * Formal methods for verification and validation of software; * Reliability assessment of System-of-Systems.

* Principal Investigator of the regional project (Région Hauts de France) ODISYM : “Optimization of Availability of multi-state systems under uncertainty”, 2016-2019. * Member of the SURF project : “Security and safety in the factory of the future”, PEPS-CNRS, 2016. * Principal Investigator of ANR JCJC (Young researcher program) Récif project : “Belief networks for quantitative evaluation of dependability parameters of railway systems”, French National Research Agency (ANR), 2013-2017. * Member of the PERFECT project: “Performing Enhanced Rail Formal Engineering Constraints Traceability”, French National Research Agency (ANR), ANR-TDM, 2013-2016. * Member of the VEGAS project : “Virtual lab based on co-simulation to include impairments of wireless telecommunication such as GSM-R in the evaluation of ERTMS components”, French National Research Agency (ANR), ANR-TDM, 2013-2016. * Member of the Labex MS2T project : “Control of Technological Systems-of-Systems”, 2011-2021.

* Felipe Aguirre. Reliability analysis of systems using belief functions theory to represent epistemic uncertainty. October 2009-2012. Co-supervisor: Walter Schön. * Siqi Qiu. Safe design of Systems of Systems in the presence of uncertainty. November 2011-2014. Co-supervisor: Walter Schön. * Yunhui Hou (2012-2016): Estimation of the probability and uncertainty of undesirable events in large-scale systems. Co-supervisor: Walter Schön and Nikolaos Limnios. * Subeer Rangra (2014-2017): Integrating of human factors in risk analysis: Application to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and railway systems, co-tutoring with Pr. Walter Schön (UTC) and Pr. Frederic Vanderhaegen (Valenciennes University). * Yu Lanting (2014-2017): A contribution for Interval comparison of system reliability. * Ayyoub Imakhlaf (2015-2018): Binary Decision diagrams for reliability studies under uncertainty. * Rémi lacaze (2015-2018): Dynamic inference model of critical situations for planning in virtual environments under uncertainty. * Joanna Akrouche (2016-2019) : Optimization of Availability of multi-state systems under uncertainty.

* Responsible of the topic 2 (Data with uncertainty, Bayesian Networks, Evidential Networks) of the International Scientific Coordination Network: “Human-Machine Systems in Transportation and Industry (GDR I-HAMASYTI)” since 2014. * Co-convenor of the Working Group GT: Human-Machine systems of the GDR MACS since 2014. * Member of the Research Working Group (GTR) “Probabilistic networks for risk and dependability analysis”, French Institute for Risk Management and dependability (IMdR-SdF), since 2012.

* Member of the Scientific Council of the Compiègne University of Technology since 2013. * Member of the Scientific Council of the Heudiasyc Laboratory since 2012. * Organiser of the ASER (Automation, Embedded Systems, Robotics) team seminars of the Heudiasyc Laboratory since 2012.