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 …

Linearisability is a key correctness criterion for concurrent data structures, ensuring that
each history of the concurrent object under consideration is consistent with respect to a …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Following the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,“the term temporal logic has been
broadly used to cover all approaches to the representation of temporal information within a …

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of
compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts …

We propose a framework for component-based modeling using an abstract layered model
for components. A component is the superposition of two models: a behavior model and an …

Abstract Design by Contract (DbC) promotes reliable software development through
elaboration of type signatures for sequential programs with logical predicates. This paper …

Rely-Guarantee reasoning is a well-known method for verification of shared-variable
concurrent programs. However, it is difficult for users to define rely/guarantee conditions …

Model checking is an automated technique that can be used to determine whether a system
satisfies certain required properties. The typical approach to verifying properties of software …

Higher order energy functions have the ability to encode high level structural dependencies
between pixels, which have been shown to be extremely powerful for image labeling …