Partial Order Methods in Verification

Partial Order Methods in Verification
Author: Doron Peled
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780821870730

This book presents surveys on the theory and practice of modeling, specifying, and validating concurrent systems. It contains surveys of techniques used in tools developed for automatic validation of systems. Other papers present recent developments in concurrency theory, logics of programs, model-checking, automata, and formal languages theory. The volume contains the proceedings from the workshop, Partial Order Methods in Verification, which was held in Princeton, NJ, in July 1996. The workshop focused on both the practical and the theoretical aspects of using partial order models, including automata and formal languages, category theory, concurrency theory, logic, process algebra, program semantics, specification and verification, topology, and trace theory. The book also includes a lively e-mail debate that took place about the importance of the partial order dichotomy in modeling concurrency.

Handbook of Model Checking

Handbook of Model Checking
Author: Edmund M. Clarke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1210
Release: 2018-05-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319105752

Model checking is a computer-assisted method for the analysis of dynamical systems that can be modeled by state-transition systems. Drawing from research traditions in mathematical logic, programming languages, hardware design, and theoretical computer science, model checking is now widely used for the verification of hardware and software in industry. The editors and authors of this handbook are among the world's leading researchers in this domain, and the 32 contributed chapters present a thorough view of the origin, theory, and application of model checking. In particular, the editors classify the advances in this domain and the chapters of the handbook in terms of two recurrent themes that have driven much of the research agenda: the algorithmic challenge, that is, designing model-checking algorithms that scale to real-life problems; and the modeling challenge, that is, extending the formalism beyond Kripke structures and temporal logic. The book will be valuable for researchers and graduate students engaged with the development of formal methods and verification tools.

Partial-Order Methods for the Verification of Concurrent Systems

Partial-Order Methods for the Verification of Concurrent Systems
Author: Patrice Godefroid
Publisher: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1996-01-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This monograph is a revised version of the author's Ph.D. thesis, submitted to the University of Liège, Belgium, with Pierre Wolper as thesis advisor. The general pattern of this work, is to turn logical and semantic ideas into exploitable algorithms. Thus, it perfectly fits the modern trend, viewing verification as a computer-aided activity, and as algorithmic as possible, not as a paper and pencil one, dealing exclusively with semantic and logical issues. Patrice Godefroid uses state-space exploration as the key technique, which, as such or elaborated into model checking, is attracting growing attention for the verification of concurrent systems. For most realistic examples, the methods presented provide a significant reduction of memory and time requirements for protocol verification.

Numerical Verification Methods and Computer-Assisted Proofs for Partial Differential Equations

Numerical Verification Methods and Computer-Assisted Proofs for Partial Differential Equations
Author: Mitsuhiro T. Nakao
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9811376697

In the last decades, various mathematical problems have been solved by computer-assisted proofs, among them the Kepler conjecture, the existence of chaos, the existence of the Lorenz attractor, the famous four-color problem, and more. In many cases, computer-assisted proofs have the remarkable advantage (compared with a “theoretical” proof) of additionally providing accurate quantitative information. The authors have been working more than a quarter century to establish methods for the verified computation of solutions for partial differential equations, mainly for nonlinear elliptic problems of the form -∆u=f(x,u,∇u) with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here, by “verified computation” is meant a computer-assisted numerical approach for proving the existence of a solution in a close and explicit neighborhood of an approximate solution. The quantitative information provided by these techniques is also significant from the viewpoint of a posteriori error estimates for approximate solutions of the concerned partial differential equations in a mathematically rigorous sense. In this monograph, the authors give a detailed description of the verified computations and computer-assisted proofs for partial differential equations that they developed. In Part I, the methods mainly studied by the authors Nakao and Watanabe are presented. These methods are based on a finite dimensional projection and constructive a priori error estimates for finite element approximations of the Poisson equation. In Part II, the computer-assisted approaches via eigenvalue bounds developed by the author Plum are explained in detail. The main task of this method consists of establishing eigenvalue bounds for the linearization of the corresponding nonlinear problem at the computed approximate solution. Some brief remarks on other approaches are also given in Part III. Each method in Parts I and II is accompanied by appropriate numerical examples that confirm the actual usefulness of the authors’ methods. Also in some examples practical computer algorithms are supplied so that readers can easily implement the verification programs by themselves.

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Author: C.R. Ramakrishnan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2008-04-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 354078800X

This proceedings volume examines parameterized systems, model checking, applications, static analysis, concurrent/distributed systems, symbolic execution, abstraction, interpolation, trust, and reputation.

Model Checking Software

Model Checking Software
Author: Klaus Havelund
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008-07-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540851135

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2008, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2008. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 1 tool paper and 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The main focus of the workshop series is software systems, including models and programs. The papers cover theoretical and algorithmic foundations as well as tools for software model checking and foster interactions and exchanges of ideas with related areas in software engineering, such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, and testing.

Formal Methods for Components and Objects

Formal Methods for Components and Objects
Author: Frank S. de Boer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2006-08-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540367497

This book presents 19 revised invited keynote lectures and revised tutorial lectures given at the 4th International Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Objects, FMCO 2005, Amsterdam, November 2005. The book provides a unique combination of ideas on software engineering and formal methods that reflect the current interest in the application or development of formal methods for large scale software systems such as component-based systems and object systems.

FSTTCS 2006: foundations of software technology and theoretical computer science [electronic resource]

FSTTCS 2006: foundations of software technology and theoretical computer science [electronic resource]
Author: S. Arun-Kumar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2006-11-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540499946

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2006, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2006. It contains 38 papers that cover a broad variety of current topics from the theory of computing, ranging from formal methods, discrete mathematics, complexity theory, and automata theory to theoretical computer science in general.

Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems

Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
Author: Falk Howar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2018-08-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030002446

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, FMICS 2018, held in Maynooth, Ireland, in September 2018. The 9 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The book also contains two invited talks in full-paper length. In addition, there are 8 invited contributions in honor of Susanne Graf (Director of Research at VERIMAG Grenoble, France) on the occasion of her 60th birthday. The aim of the FMICS conference series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. In particular, FMICS brings together scientists and engineers who are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. The FMICS conference series also strives to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications.

Model Checking Software

Model Checking Software
Author: Antti Valmari
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006-03-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540331034

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2006, held in Vienna, Austria in March/April 2006 as satellite event of ETAPS 2006. The 16 revised full papers presented together with three tool presentation papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.