We survey principles of model checking techniques for the automatic analysis of reactive
systems. The use of model checking is exemplified by an analysis of the Needham …

While message sequence charts (MSCs) are widely used in industry to document the
interworking of processes or objects, they are expressively weak, being based on the …

This book does not tell a story. Instead, it is about stories. Or rather, in technical terms, it is
about scenarios. Scenarios of system behavior. It con centrates on reactive systems, be they …

The explosion of the Internet provides us with a tremendous resource of images shared
online. It also confronts vision researchers the problem of finding effective methods to …

Software designers draw Message Sequence Charts for early modeling of the individual
behaviors they expect from the concurrent system under design. Can they be sure that …

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 …

Scenario-based specifications such as message sequence charts (MSC) offer an intuitive
and visual way of describing design requirements. Such specifications focus on message …

Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are useful as
part of a requirements specification. A scenario is a partial story, describing how system …

Behavior modeling has proved to be successful in hel** uncover design flaws of
concurrent and distributed systems. Nevertheless, it has not had a widespread impact on …

We describe a methodology for executing scenario-based requirements of reactive systems,
focusing on “playing-out” the behavior using formal verification techniques for driving the …