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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The never-ending growth of the complexity of modern hardware and software systems
requires more and more sophisticated methods of verification. The state space explosion …

Abstract Model checking technologies have been applied to hardware verification in the last
15 years. Pioneering work has been conducted in Intel since 1990 using model checking …

MOCHA: Modularity in model checking Page 1 MOCHA: Modularity in Model Checking* R. Alur
l, TA Henzinger 2, EY.C. Mang 2, S. Qadeer 2, SK Rajamani z, and S. Tasiran 2 ! Computer & …