Narges Khakpour

I am a Senior Lecturer (Tenured Assistant Professor) at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Linnaeus University.

Research

My research interest lies on formal verification and synthesis, interactive theorem proving and security. In particular, I've focused on synthesis and verification of self-protecting systems and machine code verification.

My research groups and projects

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) The CPS research group is responsible for research, teaching, and outreach activities in the field of Cyber-Physical Systems.
Project: Provably Secure Self-Protecting Systems (PROSSES) The PROSSES project will result in techniques and tools to create a protecting layer for software systems against attacks from the Internet.

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Bagheri, M., Sirjani, M., Khamespanah, E., Khakpour, N., Akkaya, I., et al. (2018). Coordinated actor model of self-adaptive track-based traffic control systems. Journal of Systems and Software. 143. 116-139.
Khakpour, N., Arbab, F., Rutten, E. (2016). Synthesizing structural and behavioral control for reconfigurations in component-based systems. Formal Aspects of Computing. 28. 21-43.
Khakpour, N., Jalili, S., Talcott, C., Sirjani, M., Mousavi, M. (2012). Formal modeling of evolving self-adaptive systems. Science of Computer Programming. 78. 3-26.
Khakpour, N., Jalili, S., Sirjani, M., Goltz, U., Abolhasanzadeh:, B. (2012). HPobSAM for modeling and analyzing IT Ecosystems : Through a case study. Journal of Systems and Software. 85. 2770-2784.
Khakpour, N., Jalili, S., Talcott, C., Sirjani, M., Mousavi, M. (2010). PobSAM : Policy-based Managing of Actors in Self-Adaptive Systems. Electronical Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. 263. 129-143.
Khakpour, N., Jalili, S. (2009). Verification of Distributed Firewalls Configuration vs. Security Policies Using ALCQI(d). Applied Artificial Intelligence. 23. 945-975.

Conference paper (Refereed)

Khakpour, N., Skandylas, C. (2018). Synthesis of a Permissive Security Monitor. Computer Security - 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2018, Barcelona, Spain, September 3-7, 2018, Proceedings, Part I. 48-65.
Bagheri, M., Akkaya, I., Khamespanah, E., Khakpour, N., Sirjani, M., et al. (2017). Coordinated actors for reliable self-adaptive systems. FACS 2016 : Formal Aspects of Component Software : International Workshop on Formal Aspects of Component Software. 241-259.
Khakpour, N., Mousavi, M.R. (2015). Notions of Conformance Testing for Cyber-Physical Systems : Overview and Roadmap. 26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015). 18-40.
Khakpour, N., Arbab, F., Rutten, E. (2014). Supervisory Controller Synthesis for Safe Software Adaptation. 12th IFAC International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (2014). 39-45.
Dam, M., Guanciale, R., Khakpour, N., Nemati, H., Schwartz, O. (2013). Formal verification of information flow security for a simple arm-based separation kernel. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security. 223-234.
Khakpour, N., Sirjani, M., Goltz, U. (2011). Context-Based Behavioral Equivalence of Components in Self-Adaptive Systems. Formal Methods and Software Engineering. 13th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICREM 2011). Durham, UK, 20111026. 16-32.
Khakpour, N., Khosravi, R., Sirjani, M., Jalili, S. (2010). Formal analysis of policy-based self-adaptive systems. Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC'10. 2536-2543.
Khaksar, M., Jalili, S., Khakpour, N., Shaban Jokhio, S. (2009). Monitoring safety properties of composite web services at runtime using CSP. 13th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, 2009. EDOCW 2009. 107-113.
Khakpour, N., Sirjani, M., Jalili, S. (2009). Formal Analysis of Smart Home Policies using Compositional Verification. . 220-233.
Khakpour, N., Jalili, S. (2009). Using Supervised and Transductive Learning Techniques to Extract Network Attack Scenarios. 14th International CSI, Computer Conference, CSICC 2009. 71-76.
Khakpour, N. (2009). A Formal Model to Develop and Verify Self-Adaptive Systems. Proceedings of Formal Methods 2009 Doctoral Symposium : November 6, 2009. 20-25.
Khakpour, N., Jalili, S. (2007). A Formal Approach for Analysis of Distributed Firewalls Congurations. .
Jalili, S., Khakpour, N. (2006). Verication of Service Access Control Policies : A Description Logic Approach. .

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Khakpour, N., Schwartz, O., Dam, M. (2013). Machine Assisted Proof of ARMv7 Instruction Level Isolation Properties.. Certified Programs and Proofs : Third International Conference, CPP 2013, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, December 11-13, 2013, Proceedings. Springer. 276-291.

Report (Other academic)

Khakpour, N., Jalili, S., Sirjani, M. (2011). Assuring the Correctness of Large-scale Adaptive Systems. TU Braunschweig. 36.
Goltz, U., Khakpour, N., Knieke, C., Martin, L. (2010). Behavioral Modeling of IT Ecosystems. NTH School for IT Ecosystems. 32.