Reactive Systems: Modelling, Specification and Verification

by Luca Aceto , Anna Ingólfsdóttir , Kim Guldstrand Larsen , Jiri Srba

• ISBN13: 9780521875462
• ISBN10: 0521875463
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Formal methods is the term used to describe the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic. Various methodologies have been developed and incorporated into software tools. An important subclass is distributed systems. There are many books that look at particular methodologies for such systems, e.g. CSP, process algebra. This book offers a more balanced introduction for graduate students that describes the various approaches, their strengths and weaknesses, and when they are best used. Milner's CCS and its operational semantics are introduced, together with notions of behavioural equivalence based on bisimulation techniques and with variants of Hennessy-Milner modal logics. Later in the book, the presented theories are extended to take timing issues into account. The book has arisen from various courses taught in Iceland and Denmark and is designed to give students a broad introduction to the area, with exercises throughout.

Table of Contents

Preface

A Classic Theory of Reactive Systems

Introduction

The language CCS

Behavioural equivalences

Theory of fixed points and bisimulation equivalence

Hennessy-Milner logic

Hennessy-Milner logic with recursive definitions

Modelling and analysis of mutual exclusion algorithms

A Theory of Real-Time Systems

Introduction

CCS with time delays

Timed automata

Timed behavioural equivalences

Hennessy-Milner logic with time

Modelling and analysis of Fischer's algorithm

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

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