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 …

Abstract Reasoning about the correctness of parallel and distributed systems requires
automated tools. By now, the mCRL2 toolset and language have been developed over a …

It is common for large organizations to maintain repositories of business process models in
order to document and to continuously improve their operations. Given such a repository …

In comparative concurrency semantics, one usually distinguishes between linear time and
branching time semantic equivalences. Milner's notion of observatin equivalence is often …

CADP (Construction and Analysis of Distributed Processes) is a comprehensive software
toolbox that implements the results of concurrency theory. Started in the mid-1980s, CADP …

Automated and semi-automated manipulation of so-called labelled transition systems has
become an important means in discovering flaws in software and hardware systems …

A temporal logic based on actions rather than on states is presented and interpreted over
labelled transition systems. It is proved that it has essentially the same power as CTL*, a …

Inheritance is one of the key issues of object-orientation. The inheritance mechanism allows
for the definition of a subclass which inherits the features of a specific superclass. When …

This chapter introduces the central formalism of this book, Interactive Markov Chains 1
(IMC). It arises as an integration of interactive processes and continuous-time Markov …

Three temporal logics are introduced that induce on labeled transition systems the same
identifications as branching bisimulation, a behavioral equivalence that aims at ignoring …