Principles of Model Checking

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Christel Baier (Technische Universität Dresden) Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University)

Principles of Model Checking

Christel Baier (Technische Universität Dresden), Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University), Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University)

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MIT Press
25 April 2008

Computer science

Series: Principles of Model Checking

A comprehensive introduction to the foundations of model checking, a fully automated technique for finding flaws in hardware and software; with extensive examples and both practical and theoretical exercises.

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, and 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 Checking offers 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.

By: Christel Baier (Technische Universität Dresden), Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University)
Foreword by: Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.882kg
ISBN: 9780262026499
ISBN 10: 026202649X
Series: Principles of Model Checking
Pages: 984
Publication Date: 25 April 2008
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Principles of Model Checking

This is an impressive piece of work...The book can be used as a kind of reference manual for the classical basis of model checking for lecturers, who will be able to select some parts in order to construct a coherent and complete lecture on automatic verification; and of course for students, who will find many explanations, motivations, examples, and proofs to help them discover this very active research area. -- François Laroussinie * The Computer Journal *