This handbook is intended to give an in-depth description of the many research areas that
make up the expanding field of model checking. In 32 chapters, 76 of the world's leading …

Model checking technology is among the foremost applications of logic to computer science
and computer engineering. The model checking community has achieved many …

Abstract 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 …

In the past two decades, model-checking has emerged as a promising and powerful
approach to fully automatic verification of hardware systems. But model checking technology …

Turing Lecture from the winners of the 2007 ACM AM Turing Award. In 1981, Edmund M.
Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, working in the USA, and Joseph Sifakis working …

The phrase model checking refers to algorithms for exploring the state space of a transition
system to determine if it obeys a specification of its intended behavior. These algorithms can …

Hardware and software systems will inevitably grow in scale and functionality. Because of
this increase in complexity, the likelihood of subtle errors is much greater. Moreover, some of …

Symbolic model checking is a powerful formal specification and verification method that has
been applied successfully in several industrial designs. Using symbolic model checking …

Abstract Model checking is an automatic verification technique for hardware and software
systems that are finite state or have finite state abstractions. It has been used successfully to …

In daily life we are more and more confronted with information technology, either explicitly
(by using PCs, Internet, Personal Digital Assistants, etc.) or implicitly by using devices like …