The quality and the correctness of software are often the greatest concern in electronic
systems. Formal verification tools can provide a guarantee that a design is free of specific …

In order to apply formal methods in practice, the practitioner has to comprehend a vast
amount of research literature and realistically evaluate practical merits of different …

SPIN is an efficient verification system for models of distributed software systems. It has been
used to detect design errors in applications ranging from high-level descriptions of …

The majority of work carried out in the formal methods community throughout the last three
decades has (for good reasons) been devoted to special languages designed to make it …

Model checking is emerging as a popular technology for reasoning about behavioral
properties of a wide variety of software artifacts including: requirements models, architectural …

We translate statecharts into PROMELA, the input language of the SPIN verification system,
using extended hierarchical automata as an intermediate format. We discuss two possible …

The main limiting factor of the model checker SPIN is currently the amount of available
physical memory. This paper explores the possibility of exploiting a distributed-memory …

This paper presents the Open/CÆsar software architecture, which allows to integrate in a
common framework different languages/formalisms for the description of concurrent …

We present SNIP, an efficient model checker for software product lines (SPLs). Variability in
software product lines is generally expressed in terms of features, and the number of …

Abstract Model checking real programs has recently become an active research area.
Programs however exhibit two characteristics that make model checking dificult: the …