Partial-Order Methods for the Verification of Concurrent Systems: An Approach to the State-Explosion Problem / Edition 1

by Patrice Godefroid

Overview

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 prool verification.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540607618
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/05/1996
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #1032
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	143
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Concurrent systems and semantics.- Using partial orders to tackle state explosion.- Persistent sets.- Sleep sets.- Verification of safety properties.- Model checking.- Experiments.- Conclusions.