Distributed software built from components has become a mainstay of service-oriented
applications, which frequently undergo reconfigurations to adapt to changes in their …

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

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 …

In this paper, we investigate the security and privacy of the three critical procedures of the
4G LTE protocol (ie, attach, detach, and paging), and in the process, uncover potential …

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 …

Formal methods for the specification and verification of hardware and software systems are
becoming more and more important as systems increase in size and complexity. The aim of …

Methods are given for automatically verifying temporal properties of concurrent systems
containing an arbitrary number of finite-state processes that communicate using CCS …

There is a growing need for reliable methods of designing correct reactive systems such as
computer operating systems and air traffic control systems. It is widely agreed that certain …

Many books focus on increasing the quality of software through the use of formal methods.
However, most books embrace one particular method, and present it as the suggested …