Despite the automation, users of finite-state verification tools still must be able to specify the
system requirements in the specification language of the tool. This is more challenging than …

Finite-state verification(eg, model checking) provides a powerful means to detect errors that
are often subtle and difficult to reproduce. Nevertheless, the transition of this technology from …

As software systems become more complex, the overall system structure--or software
architecture--becomes a central design problem. A system's architecture provides a model of …

Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets presents a novel approach
to its subject. The concepts of supervisory control and discrete event systems are explained …

This book discusses the use of the real numbers in theorem proving. Typ ically, theorem
provers only support a few'discrete'datatypes such as the natural numbers. However the …

Static analysis of concurrent programs has been hindered by the well-known state explosion
problem. Although many different techniques have been proposed to combat this state …

Property specifications concisely describe what a software system is supposed to do. It is
surprisingly difficult to write these properties correctly. There are rigorous mathematical …

The principle of separation of concerns has long been used by software engineers to
manage the complexity of software system development. Programming languages help …

The design of concurrent and distributed systems is generally complex, with a high
possibility that subtle errors will cause erroneous behaviour. Behaviour analysis is a …

The software architecture of a distributed program can be represented by a hierarchical
composition of subsystems, with interacting processes at the leaves of the hierarchy …