Concurrency Verification

Concurrency Verification
Author: W.-P. de Roever
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2001-11-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780521806084

An advanced 2001 textbook on verification of concurrent programs using a semantic approach which highlights concepts clearly.

Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems

Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems
Author: Charles Rattray
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447135342

This volume contains papers presented at the BCS-FACS Workshop on Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems held on 6-8 July 1988, at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Specification and verification techniques are playing an increasingly important role in the design and production of practical concurrent systems. The wider application of these techniques serves to identify difficult problems that require new approaches to their solution and further developments in specification and verification. The Workshop aimed to capture this interplay by providing a forum for the exchange of the experience of academic and industrial experts in the field. Presentations included: surveys, original research, practical experi ence with methods, tools and environments in the following or related areas: Object-oriented, process, data and logic based models and specifi cation methods for concurrent systems Verification of concurrent systems Tools and environments for the analysis of concurrent systems Applications of specification languages to practical concurrent system design and development. We should like to thank the invited speakers and all the authors of the papers whose work contributed to making the Workshop such a success. We were particularly pleased with the international response to our call for papers. Invited Speakers Pierre America Philips Research Laboratories University of Warwick Professor M. Joseph David Freestone British Telecom Organising Committee Charles Rattray Dr Muffy Thomas Dr Simon Jones Dr John Cooke Professor Ken Turner Derek Coleman Maurice Naftalin Dr Peter Scharbach vi Preface We would like to aeknowledge the finaneial eontribution made by SD-Sysems Designers pie, Camberley, Surrey.

Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness

Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness
Author: Dennis Dams
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2010-02-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 364211511X

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Willem-Paul de Roever, contains 19 detailed papers written by the friends and colleagues of the honoree, all eminent scientists in their own right. These are preceded by a detailed bibliography and rounded off, at the end of the book, with a gallery of photographs. The theme under which the papers have been collected is Concurrency, Compositionality, and Correctness, reflecting the focus of Willem-Paul de Roever's research career. Topics addressed include model checking, computer science and state machines, ontology and mereology of domains, game theory, compiler correctness, fair scheduling and encryption algorithms.

Computer Aided Verification

Computer Aided Verification
Author: Daniel Kroening
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2015-07-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319216686

The two-volume set LNCS 9206 and LNCS 9207 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2015, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in July 2015. The total of 58 full and 11 short papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: model checking and refinements; quantitative reasoning; software analysis; lightning talks; interpolation, IC3/PDR, and Invariants; SMT techniques and applications; HW verification; synthesis; termination; and concurrency.

Concurrency 88

Concurrency 88
Author: Friedrich H. Vogt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1988-10-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540504030

This volume contains the proceedings of CONCURRENCY 88, an international conference on formal methods for distributed systems, held October 18-19, 1988 in Hamburg. CONCURRENCY 88 responded to great interest in the field of formal methods as a means of mastering the complexity of distributed systems. In addition, the impulse was determined by the fact that the various methodological approaches, such as constructive or property oriented methods, have not had an extensive comparative analysis nor have they been investigated with respect to their possible integration and their practical implications. The following topics were addressed: Specification Languages, Models for Distributed Systems, Verification and Validation, Knowledge Based Protocol Modeling, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Databases. The volume contains 12 invited papers and 14 contributions selected by the program committee. They were presented by authors from Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
Author: Gilles Barthe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2010-01-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642113184

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2010, held in Madrid, Spain, in January 2010. The 21 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. In addition 3 invited talks and 3 invited tutorials are presented. Topics covered by VMCAI include program verification, program certification, model checking, debugging techniques, abstract interpretation, abstract domains, static analysis, type systems, deductive methods, and optimization.

Runtime Verification

Runtime Verification
Author: Howard Barringer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642166113

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2010, held in St. Julians, Malta, in November 2010. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited papers, 6 tutorials and 4 tool demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers address a wide range of topics such as runtime monitoring, analysis and verification, statically and dynamical, runtime simulations, together with applications in malware analysis and failure recovery, as well as execution tracing in embedded systems.

Parameterized Verification of Synchronized Concurrent Programs

Parameterized Verification of Synchronized Concurrent Programs
Author: Zeinab Ganjei
Publisher: Linköping University Electronic Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-03-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9179296971

There is currently an increasing demand for concurrent programs. Checking the correctness of concurrent programs is a complex task due to the interleavings of processes. Sometimes, violation of the correctness properties in such systems causes human or resource losses; therefore, it is crucial to check the correctness of such systems. Two main approaches to software analysis are testing and formal verification. Testing can help discover many bugs at a low cost. However, it cannot prove the correctness of a program. Formal verification, on the other hand, is the approach for proving program correctness. Model checking is a formal verification technique that is suitable for concurrent programs. It aims to automatically establish the correctness (expressed in terms of temporal properties) of a program through an exhaustive search of the behavior of the system. Model checking was initially introduced for the purpose of verifying finite‐state concurrent programs, and extending it to infinite‐state systems is an active research area. In this thesis, we focus on the formal verification of parameterized systems. That is, systems in which the number of executing processes is not bounded a priori. We provide fully-automatic and parameterized model checking techniques for establishing the correctness of safety properties for certain classes of concurrent programs. We provide an open‐source prototype for every technique and present our experimental results on several benchmarks. First, we address the problem of automatically checking safety properties for bounded as well as parameterized phaser programs. Phaser programs are concurrent programs that make use of the complex synchronization construct of Habanero Java phasers. For the bounded case, we establish the decidability of checking the violation of program assertions and the undecidability of checking deadlock‐freedom. For the parameterized case, we study different formulations of the verification problem and propose an exact procedure that is guaranteed to terminate for some reachability problems even in the presence of unbounded phases and arbitrarily many spawned processes. Second, we propose an approach for automatic verification of parameterized concurrent programs in which shared variables are manipulated by atomic transitions to count and synchronize the spawned processes. For this purpose, we introduce counting predicates that related counters that refer to the number of processes satisfying some given properties to the variables that are directly manipulated by the concurrent processes. We then combine existing works on the counter, predicate, and constrained monotonic abstraction and build a nested counterexample‐based refinement scheme to establish correctness. Third, we introduce Lazy Constrained Monotonic Abstraction for more efficient exploration of well‐structured abstractions of infinite‐state non‐monotonic systems. We propose several heuristics and assess the efficiency of the proposed technique by extensive experiments using our open‐source prototype. Lastly, we propose a sound but (in general) incomplete procedure for automatic verification of safety properties for a class of fault‐tolerant distributed protocols described in the Heard‐Of (HO for short) model. The HO model is a popular model for describing distributed protocols. We propose a verification procedure that is guaranteed to terminate even for unbounded number of the processes that execute the distributed protocol.

Concurrency, Security, and Puzzles

Concurrency, Security, and Puzzles
Author: Thomas Gibson-Robinson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319510460

This festschrift was written in honor of Andrew William (Bill) Roscoe on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and features tributes by Sir Tony Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and Michael Wooldridge. Bill Roscoe is an international authority in process algebra, and has been the driving force behind the development of the FDR refinement checker for CSP. He is also world renowned for his pioneering work in analyzing security protocols, modeling information flow, human-interactive security, and much more. Many of these areas are reflected in the 15 invited research articles in this festschrift, and in the presentations at the "BILL-60" symposium held in Oxford, UK, on January 9 and 10, 2017.