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

• Member of the Labex MS2T project : “Control of Technological Systems-of-Systems”, 2011-2021
• Member of the SURF project : “Security and safety in the factory of the future”, PEPS-CNRS, 2016
• Member 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

• Felipe Aguirre. Reliability analysis of systems using belief functions theory to represent epistemic uncertainty. October 2009-2012. Co-supervisor: Mohamed Sallak
• Siqi Qiu. Safe design of Systems of Systems in the presence of uncertainty. November 2011-2014. Co-supervisor: Mohamed Sallak
• Yunhui Hou (2012-2016): Estimation of the probability and uncertainty of undesirable events in large-scale systems. Co-supervisors: Mohamed Sallak 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 Mohamed Sallak (UTC) and Frederic Vanderhaegen (Valenciennes University)