Download or read book Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Charles Rattray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Formal Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Harpreet Singh Chadha and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Formal Specification and Verification for Concurrent Systems by TELL written by Shin Sedai Konpyūta Gijutsu Kaihatsu Kikō (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International Symposium on Programming written by Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science. This book was released on 1982-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Topics in the Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Shipei Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Temporal Logic in Specification written by Behnam Banieqbal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-10-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-concept and coping behaviour are important aspects of development in adolescence. Despite their developmental significance, however, the two areas have rarely been considered in relation to each other. This book is the first in which the two areas are brought together; it suggests that this interaction can open the way to new possibilities for further research and to new implications for applied work with adolescents. Two separate chapters review research carried out in each of the areas. These are followed by a series of more empirically focussed chapters in which issues such as changes in relationship patterns, difficult school situations, leaving school, use of leisure, anxiety and suicidal behaviour are examined in the context of self-concept and coping. The final chapter seeks to identify some of the central themes emerging from this work and discusses possible research and applied implications.

Download or read book Equational Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems written by James Richard Buffenbarger and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs written by Krzysztof R. Apt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software -- Software Engineering.

Download or read book A Functional Programming Approach to the Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Peter Dybjer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Logics and Models for Verification and Specification of Concurrent Systems written by Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (France) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Specification and Compositional Verification of Real Time Systems written by Jozef Hooman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1991-11-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research described in this monograph concerns the formal specification and compositional verification of real-time systems. A real-time programminglanguage is considered in which concurrent processes communicate by synchronous message passing along unidirectional channels. To specifiy functional and timing properties of programs, two formalisms are investigated: one using a real-time version of temporal logic, called Metric Temporal Logic, and another which is basedon extended Hoare triples. Metric Temporal Logic provides a concise notationto express timing properties and to axiomatize the programming language, whereas Hoare-style formulae are especially convenient for the verification of sequential constructs. For both approaches a compositional proof system has been formulated to verify that a program satisfies a specification. To deduce timing properties of programs, first maximal parallelism is assumed, modeling the situation in which each process has itsown processor. Next, this model is generalized to multiprogramming where several processes may share a processor and scheduling is based on priorities. The proof systems are shown to be sound and relatively complete with respect to a denotational semantics of the programming language. The theory is illustrated by an example of a watchdog timer.

Download or read book VPL Tool Support for Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Pranav Kumar Tiwari and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Formal Specification and Verification of Distributed Systems written by Bo-Shoe Chen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors develop an event-based model to specify formally the behavior (the external view) and the structure (the internal view) of distributed systems. Both control-related and data-related properties of distributed systems are specified using two fundamental relationships among events; the 'happens before' relation, representing time order; and the 'enabling' relation, representing causality. No assumption about the existence of a global clock is made in the specifications. The correctness of a design can be proved before implementation by checking the consistency between the behavior specification and the structure specification of a system. Important properties of concurrent systems such as 'mutual exclusion', 'concurrency', and other 'safety' and 'liveness' properties can be specified and verified.

Download or read book Specifying and Verifying Concurrent Programs written by L. Lamport and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this project was the development of formal methods for the specification and verification of concurrent programs to help avoid software errors in concurrent systems. This involved research in three areas: Specification; Verification; and Semantics. Contents: What It Means for a Concurrent Program to Satisfy a Specification; An Axiomatic Semantics of Concurrent Programming Languages; Constraints - A Uniform Approach to Aliasing and Typing.

Download or read book Understanding Concurrent Systems written by A.W. Roscoe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSP notation has been used extensively for teaching and applying concurrency theory, ever since the publication of the text Communicating Sequential Processes by C.A.R. Hoare in 1985. Both a programming language and a specification language, the theory of CSP helps users to understand concurrent systems, and to decide whether a program meets its specification. As a member of the family of process algebras, the concepts of communication and interaction are presented in an algebraic style. An invaluable reference on the state of the art in CSP, Understanding Concurrent Systems also serves as a comprehensive introduction to the field, in addition to providing material for a number of more advanced courses. A first point of reference for anyone wanting to use CSP or learn about its theory, the book also introduces other views of concurrency, using CSP to model and explain these. The text is fully integrated with CSP-based tools such as FDR, and describes how to create new tools based on FDR. Most of the book relies on no theoretical background other than a basic knowledge of sets and sequences. Sophisticated mathematical arguments are avoided whenever possible. Topics and features: presents a comprehensive introduction to CSP; discusses the latest advances in CSP, covering topics of operational semantics, denotational models, finite observation models and infinite-behaviour models, and algebraic semantics; explores the practical application of CSP, including timed modelling, discrete modelling, parameterised verifications and the state explosion problem, and advanced topics in the use of FDR; examines the ability of CSP to describe and enable reasoning about parallel systems modelled in other paradigms; covers a broad variety of concurrent systems, including combinatorial, timed, priority-based, mobile, shared variable, statecharts, buffered and asynchronous systems; contains exercises and case studies to support the text; supplies further tools and information at the associated website: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ucs/. From undergraduate students of computer science in need of an introduction to the area, to researchers and practitioners desiring a more in-depth understanding of theory and practice of concurrent systems, this broad-ranging text/reference is essential reading for anyone interested in Hoare’s CSP.

Download or read book A Formal Methodology for the Verification of Concurrent Systems written by Philip J. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing emphasis on the use of software to control safety critical plants for a wide area of applications. The importance of ensuring the correct operation of such potentially hazardous systems points to an emphasis on the verification of the system relative to a suitably secure specification. However, the process of verification is often made more complex by the concurrency and real-time considerations which are inherent in many applications. A response to this is the use of formal methods for the specification and verification of safety critical control systems. These provide a mathematical representation of a system which permits reasoning about its properties. This thesis investigates the use of the formal method Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) for the verification of a safety critical control application. CSP is a discrete event based process algebra which has a compositional axiomatic semantics that supports verification by formal proof. The application is an industrial case study which concerns the concurrent control of a real-time high speed mechanism. It is seen from the case study that the axiomatic verification method employed is complex. It requires the user to have a relatively comprehensive understanding of the nature of the proof system and the application. By making a series of observations the thesis notes that CSP possesses the scope to support a more procedural approach to verification in the form of testing. This thesis investigates the technique of testing and proposes the method of Ideal Test Sets. By exploiting the underlying structure of the CSP semantic model it is shown that for certain processes and specifications the obligation of verification can be reduced to that of testing the specification over a finite subset of the behaviours of the process.

Download or read book Specification Verification and Net Models of Concurrent Systems written by Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich Nepomni︠a︡shchiĭ and published by In-T Sistem Informatiki So Ran. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: