Principles of Model Checking

by Baier, Christel; Katoen, Joost-Pieter; Larsen, Kim Guldstrand

• ISBN13: 9780262026499
• ISBN10: 026202649X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-25
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

Our growing dependence on increasingly complex computer and software systems necessitates the development of formalisms, techniques, and tools for assessing functional properties of these systems. One such technique that has emerged in the last twenty years is model checking, which systematically (and automatically) checks whether a model of a given system satisfies a desired property such as deadlock freedom, invariants, or request-response properties. This automated technique for verification and debugging has developed into a mature and widely used approach with many applications. Principles of Model Checkingoffers a comprehensive introduction to model checking that is not only a text suitable for classroom use but also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the field. The book begins with the basic principles for modeling concurrent and communicating systems, introduces different classes of properties (including safety and liveness), presents the notion of fairness, and provides automata-based algorithms for these properties. It introduces the temporal logics LTL and CTL, compares them, and covers algorithms for verifying these logics, discussing real-time systems as well as systems subject to random phenomena. Separate chapters treat such efficiency-improving techniques as abstraction and symbolic manipulation. The book includes an extensive set of examples (most of which run through several chapters) and a complete set of basic results accompanied by detailed proofs. Each chapter concludes with a summary, bibliographic notes, and an extensive list of exercises of both practical and theoretical nature.

Author Biography

Christel Baier is Professor and Chair for Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Dresden.

Joost-Pieter Katoen is Professor at the RWTH Aachen University and leads the Software Modeling and Verification Group within the Department of Computer Science. He is affiliated with the Formal Methods and Tools Group at the University of Twente.

Table of Contents

System Verification	p. 1
Modelling Concurrent Systems	p. 19
Linear-Time Properties	p. 89
Regular Properties	p. 151
Linear Temporal Logic	p. 229
Computation Tree Logic	p. 313
Equivalences and Abstraction	p. 449
Partial Order Reduction	p. 595
Timed Automata	p. 673
Probabilistic Systems	p. 745
Preliminaries	p. 909
Bibliography	p. 931
Index	p. 965
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