Computer-Aided Verification of Coordinating Processes:
The Automata-Theoretic Approach
Robert P. Kurshan

Cloth | 1995 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-03436-2
272 pp. | 6 x 9

Formal verification increasingly has become recognized as an answer to the problem of how to create ever more complex control systems, which nonetheless are required to behave reliably. To be acceptable in an industrial setting, formal verification must be highly algorithmic; to cope with design complexity, it must support a top-down design methodology that leads from an abstract design to its detailed implementation. That combination of requirements points directly to the widely recognized solution of automata-theoretic verification, on account of its expressiveness, computational complexity, and perhaps general utility as well.

This book develops the theory of automata-theoretic verification from its foundations, with a focus on algorithms and heuristics to reduce the computational complexity of analysis. It is suitable as a text for a one-or two-semester graduate course, and is recommended reading for anyone planning to use a verification tool, such as COSPAN or SMV. An extensive bibliography that points to the most recent sources, and extensive discussions of methodology and comparisons with other techniques, make this a useful resource for research or verification tool development, as well.

Review:

"A self-contained introduction for anyone familiar with the fundamentals of the theory of machines. The book is well indexed and contains a substantial bibliography, as well as pointing to the implementation of the verification techniques in the COSPAN system."--Computing Reviews

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	3
2	Boolean Algebra	31
3	L-matrix	45
4	L-language	51
5	String Acceptors	63
6	[omega]-theory: L-automaton/L-process	77
7	The Selection/Resolution Model	109
8	Reduction of Verification	153
9	Structural Induction	203
10	Binary Decision Diagrams	215
	Appendices	231
	Bibliography	241
	Glossary	263
	Index	264

Series:

• Princeton Series in Computer Science
  Edited by David R. Hanson and Robert E. Tarjan

Subject Area:

• Mathematics

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