Automatic Verification of Sequential Infinite-State Processes
Automatic Verification of Sequential Infinite-State Processes

Author: Olaf Burkart

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-06

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 3540696784

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A common approach in software engineering is to apply during the design phase a variety of structured techniques like top-down design, decomposition and abstraction, while only subsequently, in the implementation phase, is the design tested to ensure reliability. But this approach neglects that central aspects of software design and program development have a strong formal character which admits tool support for the construction of reliable and correct computer systems based on formal reasoning. This monograph provides much information both for theoreticians interested in algebraic theories, and for software engineers building practically relevant tools. The author presents the theoretical foundations needed for the verification of reactive, sequential infinite-state systems.

Automatic Verification Methods for Finite State Systems
Automatic Verification Methods for Finite State Systems

Author: Joseph Sifakis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1990-01-10

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9783540521488

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This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop held in Grenoble in June 1989. This was the first workshop entirely devoted to the verification of finite state systems. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners interested in the development and use of methods, tools and theories for automatic verification of finite state systems. The goal at the workshop was to compare verification methods and tools to assist the applications designer. The papers in this volume review verification techniques for finite state systems and evaluate their relative advantages. The techniques considered cover various specification formalisms such as process algebras, automata and logics. Most of the papers focus on exploitation of existing results in three application areas: hardware design, communication protocols and real-time systems.

Computer Aided Verification
Computer Aided Verification

Author: E. Allen Emerson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2000-06-28

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 3540677704

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2000, held in Chicago, IL, USA in July 2000. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 9 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers address all current aspects of the theory and practice of formal methods for hardware and software verification. Emphasis is given to verification algorithms, methods, and tools and their implementation.

Computer Aided Verification
Computer Aided Verification

Author: Ed Brinksma

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-02

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 3540456570

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This volume contains the proceedings of the conference on Computer Aided V- i?cation (CAV 2002), held in Copenhagen, Denmark on July 27-31, 2002. CAV 2002 was the 14th in a series of conferences dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-assisted formal analysis methods for software and hardware systems. The conference covers the spectrum from theoretical - sults to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical veri?cation tools, including algorithms and techniques needed for their implementation. The c- ference has traditionally drawn contributions from researchers as well as prac- tioners in both academia and industry. This year we received 94 regular paper submissions out of which 35 were selected. Each submission received an average of 4 referee reviews. In addition, the CAV program contained 11 tool presentations selected from 16 submissions. For each tool presentation, a demo was given at the conference. The large number of tool submissions and presentations testi?es to the liveliness of the ?eld and its applied ?avor.

Automata, Logics, and Infinite Games
Automata, Logics, and Infinite Games

Author: Erich Grädel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-02

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 3540363874

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A central aim and ever-lasting dream of computer science is to put the development of hardware and software systems on a mathematical basis which is both firm and practical. Such a scientific foundation is needed especially for the construction of reactive programs, like communication protocols or control systems. For the construction and analysis of reactive systems an elegant and powerful theory has been developed based on automata theory, logical systems for the specification of nonterminating behavior, and infinite two-person games. The 19 chapters presented in this multi-author monograph give a consolidated overview of the research results achieved in the theory of automata, logics, and infinite games during the past 10 years. Special emphasis is placed on coherent style, complete coverage of all relevant topics, motivation, examples, justification of constructions, and exercises.

Handbook of Process Algebra
Handbook of Process Algebra

Author: J.A. Bergstra

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2001-03-16

Total Pages: 1357

ISBN-13: 0080533671

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Process Algebra is a formal description technique for complex computer systems, especially those involving communicating, concurrently executing components. It is a subject that concurrently touches many topic areas of computer science and discrete math, including system design notations, logic, concurrency theory, specification and verification, operational semantics, algorithms, complexity theory, and, of course, algebra.This Handbook documents the fate of process algebra since its inception in the late 1970's to the present. It is intended to serve as a reference source for researchers, students, and system designers and engineers interested in either the theory of process algebra or in learning what process algebra brings to the table as a formal system description and verification technique. The Handbook is divided into six parts spanning a total of 19 self-contained Chapters. The organization is as follows. Part 1, consisting of four chapters, covers a broad swath of the basic theory of process algebra. Part 2 contains two chapters devoted to the sub-specialization of process algebra known as finite-state processes, while the three chapters of Part 3 look at infinite-state processes, value-passing processes and mobile processes in particular. Part 4, also three chapters in length, explores several extensions to process algebra including real-time, probability and priority. The four chapters of Part 5 examine non-interleaving process algebras, while Part 6's three chapters address process-algebra tools and applications.

Intellectics and Computational Logic
Intellectics and Computational Logic

Author: Steffen Hölldobler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9401593833

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`Intellectics' seeks to understand the functions, structure and operation of the human intellect and to test artificial systems to see the extent to which they can substitute or complement such functions. The word itself was introduced in the early 1980s by Wolfgang Bibel to describe the united fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The book collects papers by distinguished researchers, colleagues and former students of Bibel's, all of whom have worked together with him, and who present their work to him here to mark his 60th birthday. The papers discuss significant issues in intellectics and computational logic, ranging across automated deduction, logic programming, the logic-based approach to intellectics, cognitive robotics, knowledge representation and reasoning. Each paper contains new, previously unpublished, reviewed results. The collection is a state of the art account of the current capabilities and limitations of a computational-logic-based approach to intellectics. Readership: Researchers who are convinced that the intelligent behaviour of machines should be based on a rigid formal treatment of knowledge representation and reasoning.

Automated Theorem Proving in Software Engineering
Automated Theorem Proving in Software Engineering

Author: Johann M. Schumann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3662226464

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Growing demands for the quality, safety, and security of software can only be satisfied by the rigorous application of formal methods during software design. This book methodically investigates the potential of first-order logic automated theorem provers for applications in software engineering. Illustrated by complete case studies on protocol verification, verification of security protocols, and logic-based software reuse, this book provides techniques for assessing the prover's capabilities and for selecting and developing an appropriate interface architecture.

Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods
Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods

Author: Daniel Geist

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-10-10

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 354020363X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods, CHARME 2003, held in L'Aquila, Italy in October 2003. The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on software verification, automata based methods, processor verification, specification methods, theorem proving, bounded model checking, and model checking and applications.