This handbook is intended to give an in-depth description of the many research areas that
make up the expanding field of model checking. In 32 chapters, 76 of the world's leading …

Distributed protocols such as Paxos play an important role in many computer systems.
Therefore, a bug in a distributed protocol may have tremendous effects. Accordingly, a lot of …

Autonomous systems emerge from the need to progressively replace human operators by
autonomous agents in a wide variety of application areas. We offer an analysis of the state of …

Proving that an unbounded distributed protocol satisfies a given safety property amounts to
finding a quantified inductive invariant that implies the property for all possible instance …

Distributed algorithms have many mission-critical applications ranging from embedded
systems and replicated databases to cloud computing. Due to asynchronous …

Proof automation can substantially increase productivity in formal verification of complex
systems. However, unpredictablility of automated provers in handling quantified formulas …

Markov chain analysis is a key technique in formal verification. A practical obstacle is that all
probabilities in Markov models need to be known. However, system quantities such as …

Solidity smart contract allow developers to formalize financial agreements between users.
Due to their monetary nature, smart contracts have been the target of many high-profile …

We develop a new technique for verifying temporal properties of infinite-state (distributed)
systems. The main idea is to reduce the temporal verification problem to the problem of …

Parameterized model checking is the problem of deciding if a given formula holds
irrespective of the number of participating processes. A standard approach for solving the …