Verification Of Sequential And Concurrent Programs

Author : Krzysztof R. Apt,Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
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Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781475743760

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Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs by Krzysztof R. Apt,Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog Pdf

This book provides a structured introduction to the verification of sequen tial and concurrent programs. It thus belongs to the area of programming languages but at the same time it is firmly based on mathematical logic. In logic one usually studies fixed syntactic or semantic objects. This is not necessarily the case in the area of program verification. The objects studied here, namely programs, do not have a standard syntax, their semantics can be defined in many different ways, and several approaches to their verification can be contemplated. These differences lead to various difficult design decisions. Even though we restrict our attention here to one programming style - imperative pro gramming - we are still confronted with a veritable cornucopia of pro gramming constructs from which an appropriate selection has to be made. Having studied some of these constructs separately does not yet imply that we understand their combined effect.

Author : Krzysztof Apt,Frank S. de Boer,Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
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Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848827448

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Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs by Krzysztof Apt,Frank S. de Boer,Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog Pdf

HIS BOOK CONTAINS a most comprehensive text that presents syntax-directed and compositional methods for the formal veri?- T cation of programs. The approach is not language-bounded in the sense that it covers a large variety of programming models and features that appear in most modern programming languages. It covers the classes of - quential and parallel, deterministic and non-deterministic, distributed and object-oriented programs. For each of the classes it presents the various c- teria of correctness that are relevant for these classes, such as interference freedom, deadlock freedom, and appropriate notions of liveness for parallel programs. Also, special proof rules appropriate for each class of programs are presented. In spite of this diversity due to the rich program classes cons- ered, there exist a uniform underlying theory of veri?cation which is synt- oriented and promotes compositional approaches to veri?cation, leading to scalability of the methods. The text strikes the proper balance between mathematical rigor and - dactic introduction of increasingly complex rules in an incremental manner, adequately supported by state-of-the-art examples. As a result it can serve as a textbook for a variety of courses on di?erent levels and varying durations. It can also serve as a reference book for researchers in the theory of veri?- tion, in particular since it contains much material that never before appeared in book form. This is specially true for the treatment of object-oriented p- grams which is entirely novel and is strikingly elegant.

Author : Krzysztof R. Apt,E.-R. Olderog
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0387948961

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Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs by Krzysztof R. Apt,E.-R. Olderog Pdf

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Author : W.-P. de Roever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521806089

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Concurrency Verification by W.-P. de Roever Pdf

An advanced 2001 textbook on verification of concurrent programs using a semantic approach which highlights concepts clearly.

Author : Ahmed Bouajjani,Oded Maler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642026577

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Computer Aided Verification by Ahmed Bouajjani,Oded Maler Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2009, held in Grenoble, France, in June/July 2009. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 16 tool papers and 4 invited talks and 4 invited tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 regular paper and 34 tool paper submissions. The papers are dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems; their scope ranges from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the underlying algorithms and techniques.

Author : Zeinab Ganjei
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789179296971

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Parameterized Verification of Synchronized Concurrent Programs by Zeinab Ganjei Pdf

There is currently an increasing demand for concurrent programs. Checking the correctness of concurrent programs is a complex task due to the interleavings of processes. Sometimes, violation of the correctness properties in such systems causes human or resource losses; therefore, it is crucial to check the correctness of such systems. Two main approaches to software analysis are testing and formal verification. Testing can help discover many bugs at a low cost. However, it cannot prove the correctness of a program. Formal verification, on the other hand, is the approach for proving program correctness. Model checking is a formal verification technique that is suitable for concurrent programs. It aims to automatically establish the correctness (expressed in terms of temporal properties) of a program through an exhaustive search of the behavior of the system. Model checking was initially introduced for the purpose of verifying finite‐state concurrent programs, and extending it to infinite‐state systems is an active research area. In this thesis, we focus on the formal verification of parameterized systems. That is, systems in which the number of executing processes is not bounded a priori. We provide fully-automatic and parameterized model checking techniques for establishing the correctness of safety properties for certain classes of concurrent programs. We provide an open‐source prototype for every technique and present our experimental results on several benchmarks. First, we address the problem of automatically checking safety properties for bounded as well as parameterized phaser programs. Phaser programs are concurrent programs that make use of the complex synchronization construct of Habanero Java phasers. For the bounded case, we establish the decidability of checking the violation of program assertions and the undecidability of checking deadlock‐freedom. For the parameterized case, we study different formulations of the verification problem and propose an exact procedure that is guaranteed to terminate for some reachability problems even in the presence of unbounded phases and arbitrarily many spawned processes. Second, we propose an approach for automatic verification of parameterized concurrent programs in which shared variables are manipulated by atomic transitions to count and synchronize the spawned processes. For this purpose, we introduce counting predicates that related counters that refer to the number of processes satisfying some given properties to the variables that are directly manipulated by the concurrent processes. We then combine existing works on the counter, predicate, and constrained monotonic abstraction and build a nested counterexample‐based refinement scheme to establish correctness. Third, we introduce Lazy Constrained Monotonic Abstraction for more efficient exploration of well‐structured abstractions of infinite‐state non‐monotonic systems. We propose several heuristics and assess the efficiency of the proposed technique by extensive experiments using our open‐source prototype. Lastly, we propose a sound but (in general) incomplete procedure for automatic verification of safety properties for a class of fault‐tolerant distributed protocols described in the Heard‐Of (HO for short) model. The HO model is a popular model for describing distributed protocols. We propose a verification procedure that is guaranteed to terminate even for unbounded number of the processes that execute the distributed protocol.

Author : Howard Barringer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015009811434

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A Survey of Verification Techniques for Parallel Programs by Howard Barringer Pdf

Author : Shuvendu K. Lahiri,Chao Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030010904

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Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis by Shuvendu K. Lahiri,Chao Wang Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2018, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA in October 2018. The 27 full papers presented together with 5 short papers and 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The symposium is dedicated to the promotion of research on theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis by providing a forum for interaction between the regional and the international research communities and industry in the field.

Author : Fred B. Schneider
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461218302

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On Concurrent Programming by Fred B. Schneider Pdf

Here, one of the leading figures in the field provides a comprehensive survey of the subject, beginning with prepositional logic and concluding with concurrent programming. It is based on graduate courses taught at Cornell University and is designed for use as a graduate text. Professor Schneier emphasises the use of formal methods and assertional reasoning using notation and paradigms drawn from programming to drive the exposition, while exercises at the end of each chapter extend and illustrate the main themes covered. As a result, all those interested in studying concurrent computing will find this an invaluable approach to the subject.

Author : Parosh Aziz Abdulla,K. Rustan M. Leino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642198359

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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems by Parosh Aziz Abdulla,K. Rustan M. Leino Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, March 26—April 3, 2011, as part of ETAPS 2011, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on memory models and consistency, invariants and termination, timed and probabilistic systems, interpolations and SAT-solvers, learning, model checking, games and automata, verification, and probabilistic systems.

Author : John N. Crossley,Jeffrey B. Remmel,Richard Shore,Moss E. Sweedler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0817636900

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Logical Methods by John N. Crossley,Jeffrey B. Remmel,Richard Shore,Moss E. Sweedler Pdf

The twenty-six papers in this volume reflect the wide and still expanding range of Anil Nerode's work. A conference on Logical Methods was held in honor of Nerode's sixtieth birthday (4 June 1992) at the Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cornell University, 1-3 June 1992. Some of the conference papers are here, but others are from students, co-workers and other colleagues. The intention of the conference was to look forward, and to see the directions currently being pursued, in the development of work by, or with, Nerode. Here is a brief summary of the contents of this book. We give a retrospective view of Nerode's work. A number of specific areas are readily discerned: recursive equivalence types, recursive algebra and model theory, the theory of Turing degrees and r.e. sets, polynomial-time computability and computer science. Nerode began with automata theory and has also taken a keen interest in the history of mathematics. All these areas are represented. The one area missing is Nerode's applied mathematical work relating to the environment. Kozen's paper builds on Nerode's early work on automata. Recursive equivalence types are covered by Dekker and Barback, the latter using directly a fundamental metatheorem of Nerode. Recursive algebra is treated by Ge & Richards (group representations). Recursive model theory is the subject of papers by Hird, Moses, and Khoussainov & Dadajanov, while a combinatorial problem in recursive model theory is discussed in Cherlin & Martin's paper. Cenzer presents a paper on recursive dynamics.

Author : E. Allen Emerson,A. Prasad Sistla
Publisher : Springer
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540450474

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Computer Aided Verification by E. Allen Emerson,A. Prasad Sistla Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Aided Veri?cation (CAV 2000) held in Chicago, Illinois, USA during 15-19 July 2000. The CAV conferences are devoted to the advancement of the theory and practice of formal methods for hardware and software veri?cation. The con- rence covers the spectrum from theoretical foundations to concrete applications, with an emphasis on veri?cation algorithms, methods, and tools together with techniques for their implementation. The conference has traditionally drawn contributions from both researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. This year 91 regular research papers were submitted out of which 35 were - cepted, while 14 brief tool papers were submitted, out of which 9 were accepted for presentation. CAV included two invited talks and a panel discussion. CAV also included a tutorial day with two invited tutorials. Many industrial companies have shown a serious interest in CAV, ranging from using the presented technologies in their business to developing and m- keting their own formal veri?cation tools. We are very proud of the support we receive from industry. CAV 2000 was sponsored by a number of generous andforward-lookingcompaniesandorganizationsincluding:CadenceDesign- stems, IBM Research, Intel, Lucent Technologies, Mentor Graphics, the Minerva Center for Veri?cation of Reactive Systems, Siemens, and Synopsys. TheCAVconferencewasfoundedbyitsSteeringCommittee:EdmundClarke (CMU), Bob Kurshan (Bell Labs), Amir Pnueli (Weizmann), and Joseph Sifakis (Verimag).

Author : Edmund M. Clarke,Thomas A. Henzinger,Helmut Veith,Roderick Bloem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319105758

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Handbook of Model Checking by Edmund M. Clarke,Thomas A. Henzinger,Helmut Veith,Roderick Bloem Pdf

Model checking is a computer-assisted method for the analysis of dynamical systems that can be modeled by state-transition systems. Drawing from research traditions in mathematical logic, programming languages, hardware design, and theoretical computer science, model checking is now widely used for the verification of hardware and software in industry. The editors and authors of this handbook are among the world's leading researchers in this domain, and the 32 contributed chapters present a thorough view of the origin, theory, and application of model checking. In particular, the editors classify the advances in this domain and the chapters of the handbook in terms of two recurrent themes that have driven much of the research agenda: the algorithmic challenge, that is, designing model-checking algorithms that scale to real-life problems; and the modeling challenge, that is, extending the formalism beyond Kripke structures and temporal logic. The book will be valuable for researchers and graduate students engaged with the development of formal methods and verification tools.

Author : Nissim Francez
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015029224741

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Program Verification by Nissim Francez Pdf

This textbook on program verification emphasises the role of verification in software development.

Author : K. Warwick,M.T. Tham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400904293

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Failsafe Control Systems by K. Warwick,M.T. Tham Pdf

11 . 2 Study objectives 147 11 . 3 Approach to analysis 147 11. 4 Presentation and discussion of results 151 11 . 5 Conclusions 165 12 Accident management and failure analysis G. C. Meggitt 170 12. 1 Introduction 170 12. 2 Nuclear safety 170 12. 3 The accident 171 12. 4 The accident response 171 12. 5 The automatic response 171 12. 6 The tailored response 173 12. 7 The emergency plan 181 13 Decision support systems and emergency management M. Grauer 182 13. 1 Introduction 182 13. 2 The problem 183 13. 3 The multiple-criteria approach 184 3 13. 4 OveNiew of the 1-decision support software 186 13. 5 A case study from chemical industry 189 13. 6 Conclusions 195 References 196 14 Safety integrity management using expert systems Dr P. Andow 198 14. 1 Introduction 198 14. 2 Safety and risk analysis 198 14. 3 The effects of applying safety and risk analysis 199 14. 4 Safety integrity management 201 14. 5 Knowledge-base contents 204 14. 6 Summary of system functions 204 14. 7 Discussion 205 References 205 15 Power system alarm analysis and fault diagnosis using expert systems P. H. Ashmole 207 15. 1 Introduction 207 15. 2 Expert systems for power system alarm analysis already developed 208 15. 3 Existing substation control arrangements 209 15. 4 Discussion of alarm data flow 210 15. 5 Expert system requirements 210 15. 6 User interface 211 15. 7 Requirements under different fault conditions 211 15.