Reactive Systems Modelling, Specification and Verification [Hardcover]

Accessible text describing the process algebraic approach to the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic.This accessible text describes the process algebraic approach to the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic. Offering a balanced introduction for graduate students, the book describes all the various approaches, their strengths and weaknesses, and when they are best used.This accessible text describes the process algebraic approach to the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic. Offering a balanced introduction for graduate students, the book describes all the various approaches, their strengths and weaknesses, and when they are best used.Formal methods is the term used to describe the specification and verification of software and software systems using mathematical logic. Various methodologies have been developed and incorporated into software tools. An important subclass is distributed systems. There are many books that look at particular methodologies for such systems, e.g. CSP, process algebra. This book offers a more balanced introduction for graduate students that describes the various approaches, their strengths and weaknesses, and when they are best used. Milners CCS and its operational semantics are introduced, together with notions of behavioral equivalence based on bisimulation techniques and with variants of Hennessy-Milner modal logics. Later in the book, the presented theories are extended to take timing issues into account. The book has arisen from various courses taught in Iceland and Denmark and is designed to give students a broad introduction to the area, with exercises throughout.Preface; Part I. A Classic Theory of Reactive Systems: 1. Introduction; 2. The language CCS; 3. Behavioural equivalences; 4. Theory of fixed points and bisimulation equivalence; 5. Hennessy-Milner logic; 6. Hennessy-Milnló<