Publications

You can also find a list of my publications on DBLP and Google Scholar.

2026

  • Denotational Semantics for Probabilistic and Concurrent Programs
    Noam Zilberstein, Daniele Gorla, and Alexandra Silva.
    ACM TOPLAS 2026
  • Weighted NetKAT: A Programming Language for Quantitative Network Verification
    Emmanuel Suárez Acevedo, Tiago Ferreira, Kevin Batz, Oliver Bøving, Nate Foster, and Alexandra Silva.
    PACMPL (PLDI) 2026
  • A Diagrammatic Axiomatisation of Behavioural Distance of Nondeterministic Processes
    Wojciech Rozowski, Robin Piedeleu, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    ICALP 2026
  • SMT-Based Active Learning of Weighted Automata
    Tiago Ferreira, Kevin Batz, and Alexandra Silva.
    CAV 2026
  • 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2026, June 29 to July 3, 2026, Brussels, Belgium
    Robbert Krebbers and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2026
  • Probabilistic Concurrent Reasoning in Outcome Logic: Independence, Conditioning, and Invariants
    Noam Zilberstein, Alexandra Silva, and Joseph Tassarotti.
    PACMPL (POPL) 2026
    🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
  • A Complete Diagrammatic Calculus for Conditional Gaussian Mixtures
    Mateo Torres-Ruiz, Robin Piedeleu, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    CSL 2026
  • Outrunning Big KATs: Efficient Decision Procedures for Variants of GKAT
    Cheng Zhang, Qiancheng Fu, Hang Ji, Ines Santacruz Del Valle, Alexandra Silva, and Marco Gaboardi.
    ESOP 2026

2025

  • StacKAT: Infinite State Network Verification
    Jules Jacobs, Nate Foster, Tobias Kappé, Dexter Kozen, Lily Saada, Alexandra Silva, and Jana Wagemaker.
    PACMPL (PLDI) 2025
  • Active Learning of Symbolic NetKAT Automata
    Mark Moeller, Tiago Ferreira, Thomas Lu, Nate Foster, and Alexandra Silva.
    PACMPL (PLDI) 2025
  • 39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2025, June 30 to July 2, 2025, Bergen, Norway
    Jonathan Aldrich and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2025
  • Weighted GKAT: Completeness and Complexity
    Spencer Van Koevering, Wojciech Rozowski, and Alexandra Silva.
    ICALP 2025
  • A Complete Diagrammatic Calculus for Automata Simulation
    Thibaut Antoine, Robin Piedeleu, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    CSL 2025
  • A Complete Inference System for Probabilistic Infinite Trace Equivalence
    Corina Cîrstea, Lawrence S. Moss, Victoria Noquez, Todd Schmid, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova.
    CSL 2025
  • On Formal Methods Thinking in Computer Science Education
    Brijesh Dongol, Catherine Dubois, Stefan Hallerstede, Eric C. R. Hehner, Carroll Morgan, Peter Müller, Leila Ribeiro, Alexandra Silva, Graeme Smith, and Erik P. de Vink.
    FAC 2025
  • Convex language semantics for nondeterministic probabilistic automata
    Gerco van Heerdt, Justin Hsu, Joël Ouaknine, and Alexandra Silva.
    TCS 2025
  • A Complete Axiomatisation of Equivalence for Discrete Probabilistic Programming
    Robin Piedeleu, Mateo Torres-Ruiz, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    ESOP 2025
  • Denotational Semantics for Probabilistic and Concurrent Programs
    Noam Zilberstein, Daniele Gorla, and Alexandra Silva.
    CONCUR 2025
  • A Demonic Outcome Logic for Randomized Nondeterminism
    Noam Zilberstein, Dexter Kozen, Alexandra Silva, and Joseph Tassarotti.
    PACMPL (POPL) 2025

2024

  • Preface of the special issue on the conference on Computer-Aided Verification 2020 and 2021
    Aws Albarghouthi, K. Rustan M. Leino, Alexandra Silva, and Caterina Urban.
    Formal Methods in System Design 2024
  • A Categorical Approach to DIBI Models
    Tao Gu, Jialu Bao, Justin Hsu, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    FSCD 2024
  • Multisets and Distributions
    Dexter Kozen and Alexandra Silva.
    Logics and Type Systems in Theory and Practice - Essays Dedicated to Herman Geuvers on The Occasion of His 60th Birthday 2024
  • 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2024, September 9-13, 2024, Calgary, Canada
    Rupak Majumdar and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2024
  • KATch: A Fast Symbolic Verifier for NetKAT
    Mark Moeller, Jules Jacobs, Olivier Savary Bélanger, David Darais, Cole Schlesinger, Steffen Smolka, Nate Foster, and Alexandra Silva.
    PACMPL (PLDI) 2024
  • 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, CSL 2024, February 19-23, 2024, Naples, Italy
    Aniello Murano and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2024
  • A Cyclic Proof System for Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests
    Jan Rooduijn, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    IJCAR 2024
  • A Completeness Theorem for Probabilistic Regular Expressions
    Wojciech Rozowski and Alexandra Silva.
    LICS 2024
  • On Iteration in Discrete Probabilistic Programming
    Mateo Torres-Ruiz, Robin Piedeleu, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    FSCD 2024
  • Correct and Complete Symbolic Execution for Free
    Erik Voogd, Einar Broch Johnsen, Åsmund Aqissiaq Arild Kløvstad, Jurriaan Rot, and Alexandra Silva.
    IFM 2024
  • Quantitative Weakest Hyper Pre: Unifying Correctness and Incorrectness Hyperproperties via Predicate Transformers
    Linpeng Zhang, Noam Zilberstein, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, and Alexandra Silva.
    PACMPL (OOPSLA2) 2024
  • Outcome Separation Logic: Local Reasoning for Correctness and Incorrectness with Computational Effects
    Noam Zilberstein, Angelina Saliling, and Alexandra Silva.
    PACMPL (OOPSLA1) 2024

2023

  • Minimisation in Logical Form
    Nick Bezhanishvili, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Helle Hvid Hansen, Dexter Kozen, Clemens Kupke, Prakash Panangaden, and Alexandra Silva.
    Samson Abramsky on Logic and Structure in Computer Science and Beyond 2023
  • Deterministic stream-sampling for probabilistic programming: semantics and verification
    Fredrik Dahlqvist, Alexandra Silva, and William Smith.
    LICS 2023
  • Conflict-Aware Active Automata Learning
    Tiago Ferreira, Léo Henry, Raquel Fernandes da Silva, and Alexandra Silva.
    GandALF 2023
  • Joint Distributions in Probabilistic Semantics
    Dexter Kozen, Alexandra Silva, and Erik Voogd.
    MFPS 2023
  • Automata Learning with an Incomplete Teacher (Artifact)
    Mark Moeller, Thomas Wiener, Alaia Solko-Breslin, Caleb Koch, Nate Foster, and Alexandra Silva.
    Dagstuhl Artifacts Ser. 2023
  • Automata Learning with an Incomplete Teacher
    Mark Moeller, Thomas Wiener, Alaia Solko-Breslin, Caleb Koch, Nate Foster, and Alexandra Silva.
    ECOOP 2023
  • Probabilistic Guarded KAT Modulo Bisimilarity: Completeness and Complexity
    Wojciech Rozowski, Tobias Kappé, Dexter Kozen, Todd Schmid, and Alexandra Silva.
    ICALP 2023
  • Long-Term Mentoring for Computer Science Researchers
    Emily Ruppel, Sihang Liu, Elba Garza, Sukyoung Ryu, Alexandra Silva, and Talia Ringer.
    Commun. ACM 2023
  • A Complete Inference System for Skip-free Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests
    Todd Schmid, Tobias Kappé, and Alexandra Silva.
    ESOP 2023
  • Symbolic Semantics for Probabilistic Programs
    Erik Voogd, Einar Broch Johnsen, Alexandra Silva, Zachary J. Susag, and Andrzej Wasowski.
    QEST 2023
  • Generators and Bases for Monadic Closures
    Stefan Zetzsche, Alexandra Silva, and Matteo Sammartino.
    CALCO 2023
  • Outcome Logic: A Unifying Foundation for Correctness and Incorrectness Reasoning
    Noam Zilberstein, Derek Dreyer, and Alexandra Silva.
    PACMPL (OOPSLA1) 2023

2022

  • Formalizing Moessner's theorem and generalizations in Nuprl
    Mark Bickford, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    JLAMP 2022
  • Tree-Based Adaptive Model Learning
    Tiago Ferreira, Gerco van Heerdt, and Alexandra Silva.
    A Journey from Process Algebra via Timed Automata to Model Learning - Essays Dedicated to Frits Vaandrager on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday 2022
  • A Categorical Framework for Learning Generalised Tree Automata
    Gerco van Heerdt, Tobias Kappé, Jurriaan Rot, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    CMCS 2022
  • Processes Parametrised by an Algebraic Theory
    Todd Schmid, Wojciech Rozowski, Alexandra Silva, and Jurriaan Rot.
    ICALP 2022
  • 47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2022, August 22-26, 2022, Vienna, Austria
    Stefan Szeider, Robert Ganian, and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2022
  • Concurrent NetKAT - Modeling and analyzing stateful, concurrent networks
    Jana Wagemaker, Nate Foster, Tobias Kappé, Dexter Kozen, Jurriaan Rot, and Alexandra Silva.
    ESOP 2022
  • Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests: Automata Learning
    Stefan Zetzsche, Alexandra Silva, and Matteo Sammartino.
    MFPS 2022

2021

  • Actor-based model checking for Software-Defined Networks
    Elvira Albert, Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa, Miguel Isabel, Albert Rubio, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    JLAMP 2021
  • A Bunched Logic for Conditional Independence
    Jialu Bao, Simon Docherty, Justin Hsu, and Alexandra Silva.
    LICS 2021
  • Distribution Bisimilarity via the Power of Convex Algebras
    Filippo Bonchi, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova.
    LMCS 2021
  • Prognosis: closed-box analysis of network protocol implementations
    Tiago Ferreira, Harrison Brewton, Loris D'Antoni, and Alexandra Silva.
    SIGCOMM 2021
  • 9th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science, CALCO 2021, August 31 to September 3, 2021, Salzburg, Austria
    Fabio Gadducci and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2021
  • ProbNV: probabilistic verification of network control planes
    Nick Giannarakis, Alexandra Silva, and David Walker.
    PACMPL (ICFP) 2021
  • Learning Pomset Automata
    Gerco van Heerdt, Tobias Kappé, Jurriaan Rot, and Alexandra Silva.
    FOSSACS 2021
  • Equivalence checking for weak bi-Kleene algebra
    Tobias Kappé, Paul Brunet, Bas Luttik, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    LMCS 2021
  • Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests: Coequations, Coinduction, and Completeness
    Todd Schmid, Tobias Kappé, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    ICALP 2021
  • On Star Expressions and Coalgebraic Completeness Theorems
    Todd Schmid, Jurriaan Rot, and Alexandra Silva.
    MFPS 2021
  • Computer Aided Verification - 33rd International Conference, CAV 2021, Virtual Event, July 20-23, 2021, Proceedings, Part I
    Alexandra Silva and K. Rustan M. Leino (editors).
    Edited volume 2021
  • Computer Aided Verification - 33rd International Conference, CAV 2021, Virtual Event, July 20-23, 2021, Proceedings, Part II
    Alexandra Silva and K. Rustan M. Leino (editors).
    Edited volume 2021
  • Logic, Language, Information, and Computation - 27th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2021, Virtual Event, October 5-8, 2021, Proceedings
    Alexandra Silva, Renata Wassermann, and Ruy J. G. B. de Queiroz (editors).
    Edited volume 2021
  • Canonical automata via distributive law homomorphisms
    Stefan Zetzsche, Gerco van Heerdt, Alexandra Silva, and Matteo Sammartino.
    MFPS 2021

2020

  • CONCUR Test-Of-Time Award 2020 Announcement (Invited Paper)
    Luca Aceto, Jos C. M. Baeten, Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, Holger Hermanns, and Alexandra Silva.
    CONCUR 2020
  • EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2020 - Call for Nominations
    Susanne Albers, Nikhil Bansal, Elvira Mayordomo, Dale Miller, Jaroslav Nesetril, Damian Niwinski, David Peleg, Vladimiro Sassone, and Alexandra Silva.
    EATCS Bulletin 2020
  • Foundations of Probabilistic Programming
    Gilles Barthe, Joost-Pieter Katoen, and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    2020
  • Conditional transition systems with upgrades
    Harsh Beohar, Barbara König, Sebastian Küpper, and Alexandra Silva.
    SCP 2020
  • Semantics of Probabilistic Programming: A Gentle Introduction
    Fredrik Dahlqvist, Alexandra Silva, and Dexter Kozen.
    Foundations of Probabilistic Programming 2020
  • Toward a Uniform Theory of Effectful State Machines
    Sergey Goncharov, Stefan Milius, and Alexandra Silva.
    ACM TOCL 2020
  • Hennessy-Milner Results for Probabilistic PDL
    Tao Gu, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    MFPS 2020
  • Learning Automata with Side-Effects
    Gerco van Heerdt, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    CMCS 2020
  • Learning Weighted Automata over Principal Ideal Domains
    Gerco van Heerdt, Clemens Kupke, Jurriaan Rot, and Alexandra Silva.
    FOSSACS 2020
  • Concurrent Kleene Algebra with Observations: From Hypotheses to Completeness
    Tobias Kappé, Paul Brunet, Alexandra Silva, Jana Wagemaker, and Fabio Zanasi.
    FOSSACS 2020
  • Left-handed completeness
    Dexter Kozen and Alexandra Silva.
    TCS 2020
  • Preservation of Equations by Monoidal Monads
    Louis Parlant, Jurriaan Rot, Alexandra Silva, and Bas Westerbaan.
    MFCS 2020
  • Models of Concurrent Kleene Algebra
    Alexandra Silva.
    International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning 2020
  • Guarded Kleene algebra with tests: verification of uninterpreted programs in nearly linear time
    Steffen Smolka, Nate Foster, Justin Hsu, Tobias Kappé, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    PACMPL (POPL) 2020
    🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
  • Partially Observable Concurrent Kleene Algebra
    Jana Wagemaker, Paul Brunet, Simon Docherty, Tobias Kappé, Jurriaan Rot, and Alexandra Silva.
    CONCUR 2020

2019

  • A Kleene Theorem for Nominal Automata
    Paul Brunet and Alexandra Silva.
    ICALP 2019
  • Symbolic Register Automata
    Loris D'Antoni, Tiago Ferreira, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    CAV 2019
  • A (co)algebraic theory of succinct automata
    Gerco van Heerdt, Joshua Moerman, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    JLAMP 2019
  • Tree Automata as Algebras: Minimisation and Determinisation
    Gerco van Heerdt, Tobias Kappé, Jurriaan Rot, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    CALCO 2019
  • On series-parallel pomset languages: Rationality, context-freeness and automata
    Tobias Kappé, Paul Brunet, Bas Luttik, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    JLAMP 2019
  • Kleene Algebra with Observations
    Tobias Kappé, Paul Brunet, Jurriaan Rot, Alexandra Silva, Jana Wagemaker, and Fabio Zanasi.
    CONCUR 2019
  • 24th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2017)
    Juliette Kennedy, Ruy J. G. B. de Queiroz, Alexandra Silva, and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh.
    Logic Journal of the IGPL 2019
  • An Algebraic Framework to Reason About Concurrency (Invited Talk)
    Alexandra Silva.
    TCS 2019
  • Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests: Verification of Uninterpreted Programs in Nearly Linear Time (Invited Talk)
    Alexandra Silva.
    MFCS 2019
  • Language, Logic, and Computation - 12th International Tbilisi Symposium, TbiLLC 2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia, September 18-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
    Alexandra Silva, Sam Staton, Peter Sutton, and Carla Umbach (editors).
    Edited volume 2019
  • Scalable verification of probabilistic networks
    Steffen Smolka, Praveen Kumar, David M. Kahn, Nate Foster, Justin Hsu, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    PLDI 2019
  • Completeness and Incompleteness of Synchronous Kleene Algebra
    Jana Wagemaker, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Tobias Kappé, Jurriaan Rot, and Alexandra Silva.
    MPC 2019

2018

  • Almost Sure Productivity
    Alejandro Aguirre, Gilles Barthe, Justin Hsu, and Alexandra Silva.
    ICALP 2018
  • SDN-Actors: Modeling and Verification of SDN Programs
    Elvira Albert, Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa, Albert Rubio, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    FM 2018
  • A coalgebraic treatment of conditional transition systems with upgrades
    Harsh Beohar, Barbara König, Sebastian Küpper, Alexandra Silva, and Thorsten Wißmann.
    LMCS 2018
  • Layer by Layer - Combining Monads
    Fredrik Dahlqvist, Louis Parlant, and Alexandra Silva.
    ICTAC 2018
  • Borel Kernels and their Approximation, Categorically
    Fredrik Dahlqvist, Alexandra Silva, Vincent Danos, and Ilias Garnier.
    MFPS 2018
  • Coinductive Foundations of Infinitary Rewriting and Infinitary Equational Logic
    Jörg Endrullis, Helle Hvid Hansen, Dimitri Hendriks, Andrew Polonsky, and Alexandra Silva.
    LMCS 2018
  • Learning to Coordinate
    Gerco van Heerdt, Bart Jacobs, Tobias Kappé, and Alexandra Silva.
    It's All About Coordination - Essays to Celebrate the Lifelong Scientific Achievements of Farhad Arbab 2018
  • Convex Language Semantics for Nondeterministic Probabilistic Automata
    Gerco van Heerdt, Justin Hsu, Joël Ouaknine, and Alexandra Silva.
    ICTAC 2018
  • Concurrent Kleene Algebra: Free Model and Completeness
    Tobias Kappé, Paul Brunet, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    ESOP 2018
  • The Thirty-third Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, MFPS 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 12-15, 2017
    Alexandra Silva (editor).
    Edited volume 2018

2017

  • Conditional transition systems with upgrades
    Harsh Beohar, Barbara König, Sebastian Küpper, and Alexandra Silva.
    TASE 2017
  • The Power of Convex Algebras
    Filippo Bonchi, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova.
    CONCUR 2017
  • Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems - 37th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FORTE 2017, Held as Part of the 12th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2017, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, June 19-22, 2017, Proceedings
    Ahmed Bouajjani and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2017
  • CALF: Categorical Automata Learning Framework
    Gerco van Heerdt, Matteo Sammartino, and Alexandra Silva.
    CSL 2017
  • CoCaml: Functional Programming with Regular Coinductive Types
    Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    Fundam. Informaticae 2017
  • Well-founded coalgebras, revisited
    Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    MSCS 2017
  • Brzozowski Goes Concurrent - A Kleene Theorem for Pomset Languages
    Tobias Kappé, Paul Brunet, Bas Luttik, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    CONCUR 2017
  • Completeness and incompleteness in nominal Kleene algebra
    Dexter Kozen, Konstantinos Mamouras, and Alexandra Silva.
    JLAMP 2017
  • Practical coinduction
    Dexter Kozen and Alexandra Silva.
    MSCS 2017
  • Learning nominal automata
    Joshua Moerman, Matteo Sammartino, Alexandra Silva, Bartek Klin, and Michal Szynwelski.
    POPL 2017
  • Enhanced coalgebraic bisimulation
    Jurriaan Rot, Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Damien Pous, Jan Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    MSCS 2017
  • Brzozowski Goes Concurrent - A Kleene Theorem for Pomset Languages (Invited Talk)
    Alexandra Silva.
    FSCD 2017
  • Cantor meets Scott: semantic foundations for probabilistic networks
    Steffen Smolka, Praveen Kumar, Nate Foster, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    POPL 2017

2016

  • Quien sabe por Algebra, sabe scientificamente: A tribute to José Nuno Oliveira
    Luís Soares Barbosa, Alcino Cunha, and Alexandra Silva.
    JLAMP 2016
  • A coalgebraic view on decorated traces
    Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Georgiana Caltais, Jan Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    MSCS 2016
  • Probabilistic NetKAT
    Nate Foster, Dexter Kozen, Konstantinos Mamouras, Mark Reitblatt, and Alexandra Silva.
    ESOP 2016
  • Moessner's Theorem: An Exercise in Coinductive Reasoning in Coq
    Robbert Krebbers, Louis Parlant, and Alexandra Silva.
    Theory and Practice of Formal Methods - Essays Dedicated to Frank de Boer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday 2016
  • Report on the POPL mentoring workshop (PLMW 2016)
    Alexandra Silva.
    ACM SIGLOG News 2016
  • Coalgebraic Learning
    Alexandra Silva.
    CSL 2016

2015

  • Killing epsilons with a dagger: A coalgebraic study of systems with algebraic label structure
    Filippo Bonchi, Stefan Milius, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    TCS 2015
  • Preface for the special issue on Interaction and Concurrency Experience 2012
    Marco Carbone, Ivan Lanese, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova.
    SCP 2015
  • A Coinductive Framework for Infinitary Rewriting and Equational Reasoning
    Jörg Endrullis, Helle Hvid Hansen, Dimitri Hendriks, Andrew Polonsky, and Alexandra Silva.
    RTA 2015
    🏆 Best Paper Award
  • A Coalgebraic Decision Procedure for NetKAT
    Nate Foster, Dexter Kozen, Mae Milano, Alexandra Silva, and Laure Thompson.
    POPL 2015
  • Trace semantics via determinization
    Bart Jacobs, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova.
    Journal of Computer and System Sciences 2015
  • Completeness and Incompleteness in Nominal Kleene Algebra
    Dexter Kozen, Konstantinos Mamouras, and Alexandra Silva.
    RAMiCS 2015
  • Nominal Kleene Coalgebra
    Dexter Kozen, Konstantinos Mamouras, Daniela Petrisan, and Alexandra Silva.
    ICALP 2015
  • IMC_Reo: interactive Markov chains for Stochastic Reo
    Nuno Oliveira, Alexandra Silva, and Luís Soares Barbosa.
    Journal of Internet Services and Information Security 2015
  • A short introduction to the coalgebraic method
    Alexandra Silva.
    ACM SIGLOG News 2015
  • Applications of Automata and Concurrency Theory in Networks (Invited Paper)
    Alexandra Silva.
    CONCUR 2015

2014

  • Algebra-coalgebra duality in Brzozowski's minimization algorithm
    Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Helle Hvid Hansen, Prakash Panangaden, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    ACM TOCL 2014
  • How to Kill Epsilons with a Dagger - A Coalgebraic Take on Systems with Algebraic Label Structure
    Filippo Bonchi, Stefan Milius, Alexandra Silva, and Fabio Zanasi.
    CMCS 2014
  • Towards a Coalgebraic Chomsky Hierarchy - (Extended Abstract)
    Sergey Goncharov, Stefan Milius, and Alexandra Silva.
    TCS 2014
  • Initial Algebras of Terms with Binding and Algebraic Structure
    Bart Jacobs and Alexandra Silva.
    Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics - Essays Dedicated to Jim Lambek on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday 2014
  • Automata Learning: A Categorical Perspective
    Bart Jacobs and Alexandra Silva.
    Horizons of the Mind. A Tribute to Prakash Panangaden - Essays Dedicated to Prakash Panangaden on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday 2014
  • Proceedings of the 30th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, MFPS 2014, Ithaca, NY, USA, June 12-15, 2014
    Bart Jacobs, Alexandra Silva, and Sam Staton (editors).
    Edited volume 2014
  • A compositional model to reason about end-to-end QoS in Stochastic Reo connectors
    Young-Joo Moon, Alexandra Silva, Christian Krause, and Farhad Arbab.
    SCP 2014
  • Quantitative analysis of Reo-based service coordination
    Nuno Oliveira, Alexandra Silva, and Luís Soares Barbosa.
    Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2014, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea - March 24 - 28, 2014

2013

  • Brzozowski's and Up-To Algorithms for Must Testing
    Filippo Bonchi, Georgiana Caltais, Damien Pous, and Alexandra Silva.
    APLAS 2013
  • Automatic equivalence proofs for non-deterministic coalgebras
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Georgiana Caltais, Eugen-Ioan Goriac, Dorel Lucanu, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    SCP 2013
  • Sound and Complete Axiomatizations of Coalgebraic Language Equivalence
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Stefan Milius, and Alexandra Silva.
    ACM TOCL 2013
  • Language Constructs for Non-Well-Founded Computation
    Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Dexter Kozen, and Alexandra Silva.
    ESOP 2013
  • On Moessner's Theorem
    Dexter Kozen and Alexandra Silva.
    The American Mathematical Monthly 2013
  • Generalizing determinization from automata to coalgebras
    Alexandra Silva, Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, and Jan J. M. M. Rutten.
    LMCS 2013
  • Report on CALCO 2013
    Alexandra Silva and Pawel Sobocinski.
    EATCS Bulletin 2013
  • A Coalgebraic View of ε-Transitions
    Alexandra Silva and Bram Westerbaan.
    CALCO 2013

2012

  • A Coalgebraic Perspective on Minimization and Determinization
    Jirí Adámek, Filippo Bonchi, Mathias Hülsbusch, Barbara König, Stefan Milius, and Alexandra Silva.
    FOSSACS 2012
  • Towards Interaction Reliability in Concurrent Applications
    Simon Bliudze, Roberto Bruni, Marco Carbone, and Alexandra Silva.
    Scientific Annals of Computer Science 2012
  • A coalgebraic perspective on linear weighted automata
    Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Michele Boreale, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    I&C 2012
  • Brzozowski's Algorithm (Co)Algebraically
    Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    Logic and Program Semantics - Essays Dedicated to Dexter Kozen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday 2012
  • Final Semantics for Decorated Traces
    Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Georgiana Caltais, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    MFPS 2012
  • A model of context-dependent component connectors
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Dave Clarke, and Alexandra Silva.
    SCP 2012
  • Proceedings Fifth Interaction and Concurrency Experience, ICE 2012, Stockholm, Sweden, 16th June 2012
    Marco Carbone, Ivan Lanese, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova (editors).
    Edited volume 2012
  • Logic and Program Semantics - Essays Dedicated to Dexter Kozen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday
    Robert L. Constable and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2012
  • Trace Semantics via Determinization
    Bart Jacobs, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova.
    CMCS 2012
  • Left-Handed Completeness
    Dexter Kozen and Alexandra Silva.
    RAMiCS 2012
  • Position Automata for Kleene Algebra with Tests
    Alexandra Silva.
    Scientific Annals of Computer Science 2012

2011

  • Preface for the special issue of of CMCS'2010
    Bart Jacobs, Milad Niqui, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    TCS 2011
  • Concurrency and Interaction in Complex Systems
    Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Simon Bliudze, Roberto Bruni, Alexandra Silva, and Angelo Troina.
    Scientific Annals of Computer Science 2011
  • Quantitative Kleene coalgebras
    Alexandra Silva, Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, and Jan J. M. M. Rutten.
    I&C 2011
  • A Specification Language for Reo Connectors
    Alexandra Silva.
    FSEN 2011
  • Sound and Complete Axiomatization of Trace Semantics for Probabilistic Systems
    Alexandra Silva and Ana Sokolova.
    MFPS 2011
  • Proceedings Fourth Interaction and Concurrency Experience, ICE 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, 9th June 2011
    Alexandra Silva, Simon Bliudze, Roberto Bruni, and Marco Carbone (editors).
    Edited volume 2011

2010

  • Proceedings Third Interaction and Concurrency Experience: Guaranteed Interaction, ICE 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10th of June 2010
    Simon Bliudze, Roberto Bruni, Davide Grohmann, and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2010
  • A Decision Procedure for Bisimilarity of Generalized Regular Expressions
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Georgiana Caltais, Eugen-Ioan Goriac, Dorel Lucanu, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    SBMF 2010
  • Short Contributions CMCS 2010, the 10th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science
    Bart Jacobs, Milad Niqui, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    Technical Report, CWI 2010
  • Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS), ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 26-28, 2010
    Bart Jacobs, Milad Niqui, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva (editors).
    Edited volume 2010
  • A Compositional Semantics for Stochastic Reo Connectors
    Young-Joo Moon, Alexandra Silva, Christian Krause, and Farhad Arbab.
    FOCLASA 2010
  • Non-Deterministic Kleene Coalgebras
    Alexandra Silva, Marcello M. Bonsangue, and Jan J. M. M. Rutten.
    LMCS 2010
  • A coinductive calculus of binary trees
    Alexandra Silva and Jan J. M. M. Rutten.
    I&C 2010
  • Generalizing the powerset construction, coalgebraically
    Alexandra Silva, Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, and Jan J. M. M. Rutten.
    TCS 2010
  • Kleene Coalgebra
    Alexandra Silva.
    PhD Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen 2010
    🏆 Cum laude. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. J. Rutten and Dr. M. Bonsangue

2009

  • Deriving Syntax and Axioms for Quantitative Regular Behaviours
    Filippo Bonchi, Marcello M. Bonsangue, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    CONCUR 2009
  • Automata for Context-Dependent Connectors
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Dave Clarke, and Alexandra Silva.
    COORDINATION 2009
  • A Kleene Theorem for Polynomial Coalgebras
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    FOSSACS 2009
  • An Algebra for Kripke Polynomial Coalgebras
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    LICS 2009

2008

  • Calculating Invariants as Coreflexive Bisimulations
    Luís Soares Barbosa, José Nuno Oliveira, and Alexandra Silva.
    AMAST 2008
  • Coalgebraic Logic and Synthesis of Mealy Machines
    Marcello M. Bonsangue, Jan J. M. M. Rutten, and Alexandra Silva.
    FOSSACS 2008

2007

  • Behavioural Differential Equations and Coinduction for Binary Trees
    Alexandra Silva and Jan J. M. M. Rutten.
    WoLLIC 2007

2006

  • Strong Types for Relational Data Stored in Databases or Spreadsheets
    Alexandra Silva.
    Master's Thesis, Universidade do Minho 2006
    🏆 Final dissertation Licenciatura em Matemática e Ciências de Computação (equivalent to a master thesis). Supervisors: Prof. Dr. J. N. Oliveira and Dr. J. Visser
  • Strong types for relational databases
    Alexandra Silva and Joost Visser.
    Haskell Symposium 2006