Modal and Temporal Properties of Processes

ISBN-13: 9781441931535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 191 str.

Colin Stirling

Opis

In recent years, model checking has become an essential technique for the formal verification of systems. With a clarity of presentation and its many illuminating examples, this book makes this technical material easy to grasp. It is perfectly suited for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class in formal verification and will serve as a valuable resource to practitioners of formal methods.

Spis treści

*Processes * Modalities and Capabilities * Bisimulations * Temporal Properties * Modal Mu-Calculus * Verifying Temporal Properties * Exposing Structure * References

O autorze

Recently, temporal and modal logic, process calculus, and model checking have become essential software techniques for the formal verification of systems. With a clarity of presentation and its many illuminating examples, this book makes this technical material easy to grasp. It is perfectly suited for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class in formal verification and will serve as a valuable resource to practitioners of formal methods in all areas of computer science and software programming.