Parametric Markov chains occur quite naturally in various applications: they can be used for
a conservative analysis of probabilistic systems (no matter how the parameter is chosen, the …

Wireless communication protocols are often used in critical applications, eg, urban water
supply networks or healthcare monitoring within the Internet of Things. It is essential that …

The analysis of parametrised systems is a growing field in verification, but the analysis of
parametrised probabilistic systems is still in its infancy. This is partly because it is much …

Algorithms for the synchronisation of clocks across networks are both common and
important within distributed systems. We here address not only the formal modelling of these …

Assessing the degree of security of a given system wrt some attacker model and security
policy can be done by means of formal methods. For instance, the system can be described …

When a professional or researcher faces the task of analyzing some real-world IT system,
being it a security protocol, a piece of software, or something else, it comes the moment …

This chapter semantically illustrates a common background of the work reported in this
thesis and recognizes details of the motivation and research problems. It also highlights the …