Download or read book Partial Order Methods in Verification written by Doron Peled and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Partial Order Methods for the Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Patrice Godefroid and published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science. This book was released on 1996-01-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Partial Order Methods in Verification written by Vaughan R. Pratt and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents surveys on the theory and practice of modelling, 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 programmes, 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, programme 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 modelling concurrency.
Download or read book Partial Order Methods for the Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Patrice Godefroid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Handbook of Model Checking written by Edmund M. Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book CONCUR 93 written by Eike Best and published by Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers. This book was released on 1993-08-13 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of CONCUR '93, the fourth in an annual series of conferences devoted to the study of concurrency. The basic aim of the CONCUR conferences is to communicate advances in concurrency theory and applications. The volume contains 31 papers selected from 113submissions, together with four invited papers and two abstracts of invited talks. The invited talks are: "The lambda-calculus with multiplicities" (extended abstract) by G rard Boudol, "A pi-calculus semantics for an object-based design notation" by Cliff B. Jones, "Partial-order methods for temporal verification" by Pierre Wolper and Patrice Godefroid, "Non-interleaving process algebra" by Jos C.M. Baetenand Jan A. Bergstra, "Loop parallelization in the polytope model" by Christian Lengauer, and "Structured operational semantics for process algebras and equational axiom systems" (abstract) by Bard Bloom.
Download or read book Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems written by C.R. Ramakrishnan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in March/April 2008 as part of ETAPS 2008, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 31 revised full research papers and 7 revised tool demonstration papers presented together with the abstract of an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on parameterized systems, model checking, applications, static analysis, concurrent/distributed systems, symbolic execution, abstraction, interpolation, trust, and reputation.
Download or read book Workshop on Partial Order Methods in Verification written by Doron Peled and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report consists of the written papers presented at POMIV, the Workshop on Partial Order Methods in Verification held at Princeton July 24-26. POMIV is one of the workshops participating in the DIMACS Special Year in Logic, 1995-1996, and also immediately preceded the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) held at Rutgers July 27-August 3. The theme of the workshop was the transition from the traditional interleaving model of concurrent computation to the "true noncurrent" model based on computations as partially ordered sets of events.
Download or read book Concurrency Verification written by W.-P. de Roever and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An advanced 2001 textbook on verification of concurrent programs using a semantic approach which highlights concepts clearly.
Download or read book Symbolic Model Checking written by Kenneth L. McMillan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal verification means having a mathematical model of a system, a language for specifying desired properties of the system in a concise, comprehensible and unambiguous way, and a method of proof to verify that the specified properties are satisfied. When the method of proof is carried out substantially by machine, we speak of automatic verification. Symbolic Model Checking deals with methods of automatic verification as applied to computer hardware. The practical motivation for study in this area is the high and increasing cost of correcting design errors in VLSI technologies. There is a growing demand for design methodologies that can yield correct designs on the first fabrication run. Moreover, design errors that are discovered before fabrication can also be quite costly, in terms of engineering effort required to correct the error, and the resulting impact on development schedules. Aside from pure cost considerations, there is also a need on the theoretical side to provide a sound mathematical basis for the design of computer systems, especially in areas that have received little theoretical attention.
Download or read book Heuristic Search written by Stefan Edelkamp and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search has been vital to artificial intelligence from the very beginning as a core technique in problem solving. The authors present a thorough overview of heuristic search with a balance of discussion between theoretical analysis and efficient implementation and application to real-world problems. Current developments in search such as pattern databases and search with efficient use of external memory and parallel processing units on main boards and graphics cards are detailed. Heuristic search as a problem solving tool is demonstrated in applications for puzzle solving, game playing, constraint satisfaction and machine learning. While no previous familiarity with heuristic search is necessary the reader should have a basic knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and calculus. Real-world case studies and chapter ending exercises help to create a full and realized picture of how search fits into the world of artificial intelligence and the one around us. Provides real-world success stories and case studies for heuristic search algorithms Includes many AI developments not yet covered in textbooks such as pattern databases, symbolic search, and parallel processing units
Download or read book Partial Order Reduction for Verification of Timed Systems written by Marius Minea and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "This dissertation presents solutions for the application of partial order methods to the verification of timed systems, with the purpose of reducing the size of the explored state space. Timed systems, which rely on timing information to operate correctly, pose special difficulties for automatic verification. Not only does the size of their state space grow exponentially with the number of components, as in any concurrent system, but some of the history of past transitions becomes part of the timed state. This hinders the use of partial order reduction, a technique which is applicable if different transition interleavings lead to the same state. We have given a partial order reduction algorithm for systems described as networks of timed automata, which preserves formulas in a timed extension of linear temporal logic. The algorithm is based on a modified local-time semantics, which allows individual automata to execute independently except for synchronization transitions. More generally, we have investigated the application of partial order reduction in a continuous-time model whose semantics is defined in terms of timed traces. We show how to separate the causal dependence of transitions from their time ordering due to concurrency and how this leads to the application of partial order reduction. As particular instances of this framework we obtain improved algorithms for timed event/level structures and time Petri nets, as well as our algorithm for timed automata. We have evaluated the performance of our partial order reduction approach on several timed automata benchmarks. The resulting reduction in state space stems from two sources: the local-time model reduces the number of generated time regions, while the partial order techniques applied from the domain of untimed systems reduce the explored control state space."
Download or read book An Introduction to Partially Ordered Structures and Sheaves written by Francisco Miraglia and published by Polimetrica s.a.s.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Formal Methods for Components and Objects written by Frank S. de Boer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book FSTTCS 2006 foundations of software technology and theoretical computer science electronic resource written by S. Arun-Kumar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems written by Falk Howar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
