State space methods are one of the most important approaches to computer-aided analysis
and verification of the behaviour of concurrent systems. In their basic form, they consist of …

Software model checking Page 1 21 Software Model Checking RANJIT JHALA University of
California, San Diego and RUPAK MAJUMDAR University of California, Los Angeles We survey …

A foundational text that offers a rigorous introduction to the principles of design,
specification, modeling, and analysis of cyber-physical systems. A cyber-physical system …

Abstract Model checking is an automatic technique for verifying finite-state reactive systems,
such as sequential circuit designs and communication protocols. Specifications are …

The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents
interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as …

Starts with a brief review of the history and the application areas considered in the literature.
The author then proceeds with introductory modeling examples, behavioral and structural …

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 …

Reactive systems are computing systems which are interactive, such as real-time systems,
operating systems, concurrent systems, control systems, etc. They are among the most …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses temporal and modal logic. The chapter
describes a multiaxis classification of systems of temporal logic. The chapter describes the …

Since CAR Hoare's text Communicating Sequential Processes was published in 1985, his
notation has been extensively used for teaching and applying concurrency theory. This book …