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 …

Publisher Summary Modal mu-calculus is a logic used extensively in certain areas of
computer science and is of considerable intrinsic mathematical and logical interest. Its …

We are seeing an increased push in the use of formal verification techniques in safety-
critical software and hardware in practice. Formal verification has been successfully used to …

Temporal logic comes in two varieties: linear-time temporal logic assumes implicit universal
quantification over all paths that are generated by the execution of a system; branching-time …

During the past few years, several of us have been asked many times about references on
finite tree automata. On one hand, this is the witness of the liveness of this field. On the other …

We present MCMAS, a model checker for the verification of multi-agent systems. MCMAS
supports efficient symbolic techniques for the verification of multi-agent systems against …

Of special interest in formal verification are safety properties, which assert that the system
always stays within some allowed region. Proof rules for the verification of safety properties …

Two new logics for verification of hyperproperties are proposed. Hyperproperties
characterize security policies, such as noninterference, as a property of sets of computation …

Temporal logic comes in two varieties: linear-time temporal logic assumes implicit universal
quantification over all paths that are generated by system moves; branching-time temporal …

In open systems verification, to formally check for reliability, one needs an appropriate
formalism to model the interaction between agents and express the correctness of the …