Peter Herrmann

Professor

Department of Information Security and Communication Technology Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

herrmann@item.ntnu.no +47 73594327

Elektro A, A265, Gløshaugen, O. S. Bragstads plass 2

Research topics

Model-Based Engineering of Networked Services based on Collaborative Techniques
Functional and Security Aspects of Distributed Component-Structured Software
Trust Management Issues
Formal Specification, Implementation, and Verification of Distributed Systems and Continuous-Discrete Technical Systems

Projects

UbiCompForAll (Ubiquitous Computing For All Users, 2008-2012)
Arctis (Analysis, Refinement, Composition and Transformation of Interactive Services, Verification Project, 2010-2011, extended until 2012)
EuroNF (Network of the Future, 2008-2011)
ISIS (Infrastructure for Integrated Services, 2007-2011)
SIMS (Semantic Interfaces for Mobile Services, 2006-2008)
iTrust (2003-2005)

Tools

Reactive Blocks, the tool for engineering networked services. You find more information here.

Publications

Below, you will find selected publications. A more comprehensive and up-to-date list is available on my homepage.

Scientific, academic and artistic work

Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database

2018

Puka, Ergys; Herrmann, Peter; Levin, Tomas; Skjetne, Christian Berg. (2018) A way to measure and analyze cellular network connectivity on the norwegian road system. 2018 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS).
Zamansky, Anna; Spichkova, Maria; Rodriguez-Navas, Guillermo; Herrmann, Peter; Blech, Jan Olaf. (2018) Towards Classification of Lightweight Formal Methods. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2018).

2017

Herrmann, Peter; Blech, Jan Olaf. (2017) Formal Analysis of Control Software for Cyber-Physical Systems. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C).
Hordvik, Simon Eikeland; Øseth, Kristoffer; Svendsen, Henrik Heggelund; Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter. (2017) Model-based Engineering and Spatiotemporal Analysis of Transport Systems. Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering.
Khan, Zeeshan Ali; Herrmann, Peter. (2017) A trust based distributed intrusion detection mechanism for internet of things. Advanced Information Networking and Applications.
Khan, Zeeshan Ali; Herrmann, Peter. (2017) How to Secure Internet of Things Devices in an Energy Efficient Way. ERCIM News. vol. 109 (4).
Khan, Zeeshan Ali; Ullrich, Johanna; Voyiatzis, Artemios; Herrmann, Peter. (2017) A Trust-based Resilient Routing Mechanism for the Internet of Things. ARES'17. Proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Reggio Calabria, Italy — August 29 - September 01, 2017.
Svae, Alexander; Taherkordi, Amirhosein; Herrmann, Peter; Blech, Jan Olaf. (2017) Self-Adaptive Control in Cyber-Physical Systems: The Autonomous Train Experiment. 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) . ACM; Marrakech. 2017-04-04 - 2017-04-06.
Taherkordi, Amirhosein; Herrmann, Peter; Blech, Jan Olaf; Fernandez Fernandez, Alvaro. (2017) Service virtualization for self-adaptation in mobile cyber-physical systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 10380 LNCS.

2016

Herrmann, Peter Michael; Blech, Jan Olaf; Han, Fenglin; Schmidt, Heinz. (2016) A model-based toolchain to verify spatial behavior of cyber-physical systems. International Journal of Web Services Research. vol. 13 (1).
Herrmann, Peter; Blech, Jan Olaf. (2016) Formal Model-based Development in Industrial Automation with Reactive Blocks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 9946 LNCS.
Herrmann, Peter; Svae, Alexander; Svendsen, Henrik Heggelund; Blech, Jan Olaf. (2016) Collaborative Model-based Development of a Remote Train Monitoring System. ENASE 2016 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering.
Hordvik, Simon Eikeland; Øseth, Kristoffer; Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter. (2016) A Methodology for Model-based Development and Safety Analysis of Transport Systems. ENASE 2016 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering.
Hordvik, Simon Eikeland; Øseth, Kristoffer; Svendsen, Henrik Heggelund; Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter. (2016) Model-based engineering and spatiotemporal analysis of transport systems. Communications in Computer and Information Science. vol. 703.
Oplenskedal, Magnus; Herrmann, Peter; Blech, Jan Olaf. (2016) Model-based Development of a Controller and Simulator for a Mobile Robot. 2016 Fifth ICT International Student Project Conference (ICT-ISPC 2016).
Taherkordi, Amirhosein; Herrmann, Peter; Blech, Jan Olaf; Fernandez, Alvaro. (2016) Service Virtualization for Self-Adaptation in Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems. International Workshop on Management of Service-Oriented Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS) ; Banff. 2016-10-10 - 2016-10-10.

2015

Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter. (2015) Behavioral Types for Component-based Development of Cyber-Physical Systems. 2nd Human-Oriented Formal Methods Workshop (HOFM2015) . Maria Spichkova, Heinz Schmidt; York. 2015-09-07 - 2015-09-07.
Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter. (2015) Behavioral Types for Space-aware Systems. 8th International Workshop on Model-based Architecting of Cyber-physical and Embedded Systems . Iulia Dragomir et al.; Ottawa. 2015-09-28 - 2015-09-28.
Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Peake, Ian; Schmidt, Heinz. (2015) Towards a Model-based Toolchain for Remote Configuration and Maintenance of Space-aware Systems. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering.
Han, Fenglin; Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter; Schmidt, Heinz. (2015) Model-Based Engineering and Analysis of Space-Aware Systems Communicating via IEEE 802.11. Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2015 IEEE 39th Annual.
Herrmann, Peter. (2015) State of the art IoT research - What do we know and what are the biggest questions we pursuit?. Innovasjonsfrokost . Næringsforeningen i Trondheimsregionen; Trondheim. 2015-08-28 - 2015-08-28.
Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2015) Creating Internet of Things Applications from Building Blocks. ERCIM News. vol. 101 (4).

2014

Han, Fenglin; Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Schmidt, Heinz. (2014) Towards Verifying Safety Properties of Real-Time Probabilistic Systems. Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. vol. 147.
Herrmann, Peter Michael; Blech, Jan Olaf; Han, Fenglin; Schmidt, Heinz. (2014) A Model-based Toolchain to Verify Spatial Behavior of Cyber-Physical Systems. 2014 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC) ; Fuzhou. 2014-12-04 - 2014-12-06.
Spichkova, Maria; Blech, Jan Olaf; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Schmidt, Heinz. (2014) Modeling spatial aspects of safety-critical systems with FOCUS-ST. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1235.
Vasilevskaya, Maria; Gunawan, Linda Ariani; Nadjm-Tehrani, Simin; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2014) Integrating Security Mechanisms into Embedded Systems by Domain-specific Modelling. Security and Communication Networks. vol. 7 (12).

2013

Gladysh, Sergiy; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2013) Modeling Reactive Trust Acquisition Using State Transition Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. vol. 401.
Gunawan, Linda Ariani; Herrmann, Peter. (2013) Compositional Verification of Application-Level Security Properties. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 7781.
Han, Fenglin; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2013) Modeling Real-Time System Performance with Respect to Scheduling Analysis. 6th IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (UMEDIA 2013) . IEEE; Aizu-Wakamatsu. 2013-11-02 - 2013-11-04.
Han, Fenglin; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Le, Hien Nam. (2013) Modeling and Verifying Real-time Properties of Reactive Systems. Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), 2013 18th International Conference on.
Slåtten, Vidar; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Kraemer, Frank Alexander. (2013) Model-Driven Engineering of Reliable Fault-Tolerant Systems-A State-of-the-Art Survey. Advances in Computers. vol. 91.

2012

Gunawan, Linda Ariani; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter. (2012) Behavioral Singletons to Consistently Handle Global States of Security Patterns. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 7272.
Han, Fenglin; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2012) Remedy of Mixed Initiative Conflicts in Model-based System Engineering. Electronic Communications of the EASST. vol. 47.
Slåtten, Vidar; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2012) Towards Automatic Generation of Formal Specifications to Validate and Verify Reliable Distributed Systems. SIGPLAN notices. vol. 47 (3).
Vasilevskaya, Maria; Gunawan, Linda Ariani; Nadjm-Tehrani, Simin; Herrmann, Peter. (2012) Security Asset Elicitation for Collaborative Models. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).

2011

Floch, Jacqueline; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Khan, Mohammad Ullah; Sanders, Richard; Stav, Erlend; Sætre, Rune. (2011) End-User Service Composition in Mobile Pervasive Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6654.
Floch, Jacqueline; Stav, Erlend; Khan, Mohammad Ullah; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Sanders, Richard; Sætre, Rune. (2011) End-User Service Composition in Mobile Pervasive Environments. Third International Symposium, IS-EUD 2011 . End-User Development, EUD4Services; Torre Canne (BR). 2011-06-07 - 2011-06-07.
Gunawan, Linda Ariani; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2011) A Tool-Supported Method for the Design and Implementation of Secure Distributed Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6542/2011.
Gunawan, Linda Ariani; Vogel, Michael; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Schmerl, Sebastian; Slåtten, Vidar; Herrmann, Peter Michael; König, Hartmut. (2011) Modeling a Distributed Intrusion Detection System Using Collaborative Building Blocks. Software engineering notes. vol. 36 (1).
Han, Fenglin; Kathayat, Surya Bahadur; Le, Hien Nam; Bræk, Rolv; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2011) Towards Choreography Model Transformation via Graph Transformation. Proceedings 2011 2nd IEEE International Conference On Software Engineering and Service Science.
Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2011) System Analysis and Modeling: About Models. Springer. 2011. ISBN 978-3-642-21651-0. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (0302-9743).
Slåtten, Vidar; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2011) Contracts for Multi-instance UML Activities. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6722.
Slåtten, Vidar; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2011) Towards Automatic Generation of Formal Specifications to Validate and Verify Reliable Distributed Systems: A Method Exemplified by an Industrial Case Study. Proceedings of the 10th ACM international conference on Generative programming and component engineering.
Slåtten, Vidar; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2011) Towards a Model-Driven Method for Reliable Applications: From Ideal To Realistic Transmission Semantics. Proceedings of the 2nd international Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE 2010).
Sætre, Rune; Khan, Mohammad Ullah; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2011) End-user Composition of Web-based Services: The “Plus Alpha” Approach. India-Norway Workshop on Web Concepts and Technologies 2011 . Norwegian University of Science and technology; Trondheim. 2011-10-03 - 2011-10-03.
Sætre, Rune; Khan, Mohammad Ullah; Stav, Erlend; Fernandez, Alfredo Perez; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Gulla, Jon Atle. (2011) Towards Ontology-Driven End-User Composition of Personalized Mobile Services. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6716.

2010

Csorba, Mate Jozsef; Heegaard, Poul Einar; Herrmann, Peter. (2010) Component Deployment Using Parallel Ant-nests. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems.
Gladysh, Sergiy; Herrmann, Peter. (2010) Trust issues for ¨No carries, no pain¨. UbiCompForAll Project Workshop . SINTEF; Trondheim. 2010-11-15 - 2010-11-16.
Gladysh, Sergiy; Herrmann, Peter Michael; Knapskog, Svein Johan. (2010) User-Centered Security, Privacy and Trust in Ubiquitous Social Network Services. The VERDIKT Conference 2010 . Norges Forskningsråd - The Research Council of Norway; Oslo. 2010-11-01 - 2010-11-02.
Gunawan, Linda Ariani; Vogel, Michael; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Schmerl, Sebastian; Slåtten, Vidar; Herrmann, Peter Michael; König, Hartmut. (2010) Modeling a Distributed Intrusion Detection System Using Collaborative Building Blocks. Third IEEE International Workshop UML and Formal Methods ; Shanghai. 2010-11-16 - 2010-11-16.
Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2010) Engineering Distributed Applications with Collaborative UML Activities. Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference 2010 . Bezalel Gavish; Riva del Garda. 2010-10-07 - 2010-10-10.
Herrmann, Peter Michael; Tavakolifard, Mozhgan. (2010) Special issue on trust and privacy in electronic commerce. Electronic Commerce Research. vol. 10 (3-4).
Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2010) Reactive Semantics for Distributed UML Activities. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Slåtten, Vidar; Kraemer, Frank Alexander; Herrmann, Peter Michael. (2010) Towards a Model-Driven Method for Reliable Applications: From Ideal To Realistic Transmission Semantics. International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE 2010) . SERENE, ERCIM Working Group; London. 2010-04-15 - 2010-04-16.

2008

Karabulut, Yücel; Mitchell, John C.; Herrmann, Peter; Jensen, Christian Damsgaard. (2008) Trust Management II - Proceedings of IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-09427-4. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing (263).
Karabulut, Yücel; Mitchell, John C.; Herrmann, Peter; Jensen, Christian D.. (2008) Trustmanagement II - Proceedings of IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-09427-4. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing (263).