ADVANCED MODEL CHECKING

(CSE-952)

1. Educational Objectives: Having completed this course, students will be able to model

the behavior of reactive systems using finite-state machines and temporal logic. They will

understand and be able to use model checkers to check whether crucial properties are

satisfied

2. Course Outcomes: After the completion of this course, the students would be able to

model and verify the dynamics of complex dynamic systems, in any discipline including

biology, computer science, electronics and engineering.

3. Detailed Course Contents:

System Verification

Model Checking

Characteristics of Model Checking

The Model-Checking Process

Strengths and Weaknesses

Modeling Concurrent Systems

Transition Systems

Parallelism and Communication

The State-Space Explosion Problem

Linear-Time Properties

Deadlock

Linear-Time Behavior

Safety Properties and Invariants

Liveness Properties

Fairness

Regular Properties

Automata on Finite Words

Model-Checking Regular Safety Properties

Automata on Infinite Words

Model-Checking ω-Regular Properties

Linear Temporal Logic

Linear Temporal Logic

Automata-Based LTL Model Checking

Computation Tree Logic

Computation Tree Logic

Expressiveness of CTL vs. LTL

Fairness in CTL

Research Center for Modeling & Simulation (RCMS)

National University of Sciences & Technology

Counterexamples and Witnesses

Symbolic CTL Model Checking

Equivalences and Abstraction

Bisimulation

Bisimulation and CTLEquivalence

Bisimulation-Quotienting Algorithms

Simulation Relations

Partial Order Reduction

The Linear-Time Ample Set Approach

The Branching-Time Ample Set Approach

Independence of Actions

Timed Automata

Timed Automata

TCTL Model Checking

Probabilistic Systems

Markov Chains

Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic

Linear-Time Properties

Markov Chains with Costs

Markov Decision Processes

Model-checking tools

HyTech

UPPAAL

PRISM

4. Recommended Text/Reference Books:

E.-R. Olderog and H. Dierks: Real-Time Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

B. Bérard et al.: Systems and Software Verification: Model-Checking Techniques and

Tools, Springer 2001.

C. Baier and J.-P. Katoen: Principles of Model Checking, MIT Press, 2008.

T-A. Henzinger, P-H. Ho, and H. Wong-Toi. HYTECH: A model checker for hybrid

systems. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 1(1-2):110-

122,1997.

GoranFrehse. Phaver: Algorithmic verification of hybrid systems past HYTECH. In

HSCC, pages 258-273, 2005

A Tutorial on UPPAAL .GerdBehrmann, Alexandre David, and Kim G. Larsen. In

proceedings of the 4th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of

Computer, Communication, and Software Systems (SFM-RT'04). LNCS number 3185,

Springer.