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Book The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems

Download or read book The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems written by Zohar Manna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reactive systems are computing systems which are interactive, such as real-time systems, operating systems, concurrent systems, control systems, etc. They are among the most difficult computing systems to program. Temporal logic is a formal tool/language which yields excellent results in specifying reactive systems. This volume, the first of two, subtitled Specification, has a self-contained introduction to temporal logic and, more important, an introduction to the computational model for reactive programs, developed by Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli of Stanford University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, respectively.

Book The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems

Download or read book The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems written by Zohar Manna and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Temporal Verification of Reactive Systems

Download or read book Temporal Verification of Reactive Systems written by Zohar Manna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the verification of reactive systems. A reactive system is a system that maintains an ongoing interaction with its environment, as opposed to computing some final value on termination. The family of reactive systems includes many classes of programs whose correct and reliable construction is con sidered to be particularly challenging, including concurrent programs, embedded and process control programs, and operating systems. Typical examples of such systems are an air traffic control system, programs controlling mechanical devices such as a train, or perpetually ongoing processes such as a nuclear reactor. With the expanding use of computers in safety-critical areas, where failure is potentially disastrous, correctness is crucial. This has led to the introduction of formal verification techniques, which give both users and designers of software and hardware systems greater confidence that the systems they build meet the desired specifications. Framework The approach promoted in this book is based on the use of temporal logic for specifying properties of reactive systems, and develops an extensive verification methodology for proving that a system meets its temporal specification. Reactive programs must be specified in terms of their ongoing behavior, and temporal logic provides an expressive and natural language for specifying this behavior. Our framework for specifying and verifying temporal properties of reactive systems is based on the following four components: 1. A computational model to describe the behavior of reactive systems. The model adopted in this book is that of a Fair Transition System (FTS).

Book Logics and Models of Concurrent Systems

Download or read book Logics and Models of Concurrent Systems written by Krzysztof R. Apt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cooperation test [Apt, Francez & de Roever] was originally conceived to capture the proof theoretical analogue of distributed message exchange between disjoint processes, as opposed to the interference freedom test [Owicki & Gries], being the proof theoretical analogue of concurrent communication by means of interference through jointly shared variables. Some authors ([Levin & Gries, Lamport & Schneider, Schlichting and Schneider]) stress that both forms of communication can be proof theoretically characterized using interference freedom only, since proofs for both ultimately amount to an invariance proof of a big global assertion [Ashcroft], invariance of whose parts amounts to interference freedom. Yet I feel that the characteristic nature of the cooperation test is still preserved in the analysis of these authors, because in their analysis of CSP the part dealing with interference freedom specializes to maintenance of a global invariant, the expression of which requires per process the introduction of auxiliary variables which are updated in that process only, thus preserving the concept of disjointness (as opposed to sharing), since now all variables from different processes are disjoint. The cooperation test has been applied to characterize concurrent communication as occurring in Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) [Hoare 2], Ichbiah's ADA [ARM], and Brinch Hansen's Distributed Processes (DP) [Brinch Hansen]. This characterization has been certified through soundness and completeness proofs [Apt 2, Gerth]. As in the interference freedom test this characterization consists of two stages, a local sequential stage and a global stage.

Book Temporal Verification of Reactive Systems

Download or read book Temporal Verification of Reactive Systems written by Zohar Manna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-08-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the verification of reactive systems. A reactive system is a system that maintains an ongoing interaction with its environment, as opposed to computing some final value on termination. The family of reactive systems includes many classes of programs whose correct and reliable construction is con sidered to be particularly challenging, including concurrent programs, embedded and process control programs, and operating systems. Typical examples of such systems are an air traffic control system, programs controlling mechanical devices such as a train, or perpetually ongoing processes such as a nuclear reactor. With the expanding use of computers in safety-critical areas, where failure is potentially disastrous, correctness is crucial. This has led to the introduction of formal verification techniques, which give both users and designers of software and hardware systems greater confidence that the systems they build meet the desired specifications. Framework The approach promoted in this book is based on the use of temporal logic for specifying properties of reactive systems, and develops an extensive verification methodology for proving that a system meets its temporal specification. Reactive programs must be specified in terms of their ongoing behavior, and temporal logic provides an expressive and natural language for specifying this behavior. Our framework for specifying and verifying temporal properties of reactive systems is based on the following four components: 1. A computational model to describe the behavior of reactive systems. The model adopted in this book is that of a Fair Transition System (FTS).

Book A Decade of Concurrency

    Book Details:
  • Author : J.W.de Bakker
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 1994-06-28
  • ISBN : 9783540580430
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book A Decade of Concurrency written by J.W.de Bakker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-06-28 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The REX School/Symposium "A Decade of Concurrency - Reflections and Perspectives" was the final event of a ten-year period of cooperation between three Dutch research groups working on the foundations of concurrency. Ever since its inception in 1983, the goal of the project has been to contribute to the cross-fertilization between formal methods from the fields of syntax, semantics, and proof theory, aimed at an improved understanding of the nature of parallel computing. The material presented in this volume was prepared by the lecturers (and their coauthors) after the meeting took place. In total, the volume constitutes a thorough state-of-the-art report of the research activities in concurrency.

Book Logics for Concurrency

    Book Details:
  • Author : Faron Moller
  • Publisher : Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers
  • Release : 1996-03-06
  • ISBN : 9783540609155
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Logics for Concurrency written by Faron Moller and published by Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers. This book was released on 1996-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents five tutorial-style lectures on various approaches to the problem of verifying distributed systems: three chapters concentrate on linear-time or branching-time temporal logics; one addresses process equivalence with an emphasis on infinite-state systems; and the final one presents a novel category-theoretic approach to verification. The various formalisms for expressing properties of concurrent systems, based on automata-theoretic techniques or structural properties, are studied in detail. Much attention is paid to the style of writing and complementary coverage of the relevant issues. Thus these lecture notes are ideally suited for advanced courses on logics for concurrent systems. Equally, they are indispensable reading for anyone researching the area of distributed computing.

Book Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software

Download or read book Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software written by Masami Hagiya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-03-30 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, held at Tohoku University, Japan in April 1994. This top-level international symposium on theoretical computer science is devoted to theoretical aspects of programming, programming languages and system, and parallel and distributed computation. The papers in the volume are grouped into sessions on: lambda calculus and programming; automated deduction; functional programming; objects and assignments; concurrency; term rewriting and process equivalence; type theory and programming; algebra, categories and linear logic; and subtyping, intersection and union types. The volume also includes seven invited talks and two open lectures.

Book CONCUR 2002   Concurrency Theory

Download or read book CONCUR 2002 Concurrency Theory written by Lubos Brim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2002, held in Brno, Czech Republic in August 2002.The 32 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of seven invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on verification and model checking, logic, mobility, probabilistic systems, models of computation and process algebra, security, Petri nets, and bisimulation.

Book Temporal Logics in Computer Science

Download or read book Temporal Logics in Computer Science written by Stéphane Demri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, modern and technically precise exposition of the theory and main applications of temporal logics in computer science.

Book Verification of Reactive Systems

Download or read book Verification of Reactive Systems written by Klaus Schneider and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a solid foundation of the most important formalisms used for specification and verification of reactive systems. In particular, the text presents all important results on m-calculus, w-automata, and temporal logics, shows the relationships between these formalisms and describes state-of-the-art verification procedures for them. It also discusses advantages and disadvantages of these formalisms, and shows up their strengths and weaknesses. Most results are given with detailed proofs, so that the presentation is almost self-contained. Includes all definitions without relying on other material Proves all theorems in detail Presents detailed algorithms in pseudo-code for verification as well as translations to other formalisms

Book Verifying Concurrent Systems with Symbolic Execution

Download or read book Verifying Concurrent Systems with Symbolic Execution written by Michael Balser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic execution is an intuitive strategy to verify sequential programs, which can be automated to a large extent. We have successfully carried over this method of proof to the interactive verification of concurrent systems. The resulting strategy can be applied to the verification of complex parallel programs and arbitrary (linear) temporal formulas. Our underlying logic is defined such that operators for parallel programs and temporal logic can be arbitrarily nested. We support interleaving with explicit blocking, nondeterministic choice, and others. Most important, the semantics of all of the operators are compositional. Thus, systems can be abstracted and proofs can be decomposed. This ensures that our strategy of proof can be applied to the verification of large, concurrent systems.

Book Logic Programming

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catuscia Palamidessi
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2003-12-01
  • ISBN : 3540245995
  • Pages : 533 pages

Download or read book Logic Programming written by Catuscia Palamidessi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2003, which was held at the Tata Institute of F- damental Research in Mumbai, India, during 9-13 December, 2003. ICLP 2003 was colocated with the 8th Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN 2003, andwasfollowedbythe23rdConferenceonFoundationsofSoftwareTechnology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2003. The latter event was hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. In addition, there were?ve satellite workshops associated with ICLP 2003: - PPSWR 2003, Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning, 8th Dec. 2003, organized by Franı cois Bry, Nicola Henze, and Jan Maluszynski. - COLOPS 2003, COnstraint & LOgic Programming in Security, 8th Dec. 2003, organized by Martin Leucker, Justin Pearson, Fred Spiessens, and Frank D. Valencia. - WLPE 2003, Workshop on Logic Programming Environments, organized by Alexander Serebrenik and Fred Mesnard. - CICLOPS2003,ImplementationofConstraintandLOgicProgrammingS- tems, 14th Dec. 2003, organized by Michel Ferreira and Ricardo Lopes. - SVV 2003, Software Veri?cation and Validation, 14th Dec. 2003, organized by Sandro Etalle, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, and Abhik Roychoudhury.

Book Computer Aided Verification

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Wolper
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 1995-06-21
  • ISBN : 9783540600459
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Computer Aided Verification written by Pierre Wolper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-06-21 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV '95, held in Liège, Belgium in July 1995. The book contains the 31 refereed full research papers selected for presentation at CAV '95 as well as abstracts or full papers of the three invited presentations. Originally oriented towards finite-state concurrent systems, CAV now covers all styles of verification approaches and a variety of application areas. The papers included range from theoretical issues to concrete applications with a certain emphasis on verification tools and the algorithms and techniques needed for their implementations. Beyond finite-state systems, real-time systems and hybrid systems are an important part of the conference.

Book CONCUR  94  Concurrency Theory

Download or read book CONCUR 94 Concurrency Theory written by Bengt Jonsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR '94, held at Uppsala, Sweden in August 1994. In total, 29 refereed research papers selected from 108 submissions for the conference are presented together with full papers or abstracts of the 5 invited talks by prominent speakers. The book contains recent results on all relevant aspects of concurrency research and thus competently documents the progress of the field since the predecessor conference CONCUR '93, the proceedings of which are published as LNCS 715.

Book CONCUR 2003   Concurrency Theory

Download or read book CONCUR 2003 Concurrency Theory written by Roberto Amadio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2003, held in Marseille, France in September 2003. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on partial orders and asynchronous systems, process algebras, games, infinite systems, probabilistic automata, model checking, model checking and HMSC, security, mobility, compositional methods and real time, and probabilistic models.

Book Real Time  Theory in Practice

Download or read book Real Time Theory in Practice written by J.W.de Bakker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992-06-24 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, the formal theory of specification, verfication and development of real-time programs has grown from work of a few specialized groups to a real "bandwagon". Many eminent research groups have shifted their interests in this direction. Consequently, research in real-time is now entering established research areas in formal methods, such as process algebra, temporal logic, and model checking. This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop dedicated to the theory of real-time with the purpose of stepping back and viewing the results achieved as well as considering the directions of ongoing research. The volume gives a representative picture of what is going on in the field worldwide, presented by eminent, active researchers. The material in the volume was prepared by the authors after the workshop took place and reflects the results of the workshop discussions.