CS357: Formal Verification of Reactive Systems
Instructors: Zohar Manna and Henny Sipma

CS357: Topics covered

• omega-automata
• diagrams
• abstraction
• real-time systems
• modularity

omega-Automata

• Algorithms for omega-Automata and Applications in the Construction and Verification of Programs at the RWTH, Aachen, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Thomas.
• Automata-Theoretic Approach to Automated Verification. Course taught by Vardi and Pnueli at the Weizmann Institute.

Books

• Robert P. Kurshan, Computer-Aided Verification of Coordinating Processes. The Automata-theoretic Approach. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Survey articles

• W. Thomas, Automata on Infinite Objects, in Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, Vol B, Elsevier, pp 133-191, 1990.

Articles

• M. Vardi, M. Daniele and F.Giunchiglia, Improved Automata Generation for Linear Temporal Logic, to appear in CAV'99.

• M. Vardi, P. Wolper, Reasoning about Infinite Computations, Information and Computation, Vol 115, Number 1, pp 1-37, 1994.

• M. Vardi, Verification of Concurrent Programs: The Automata-Theoretic Framework, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, Vol 51, pp 79-98, 1991.

• M. Vardi, Nontraditional Applications of Automata Theory, TACS'94 , LNCS Vol 789, Springer-Verlag, pp 575-597, 1994.

• M. Vardi, An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Linear Temporal Logic, in Logics for Concurrency. Structure versus Automata, LNCS Vol 1043, Springer-Verlag, pp 238-266, 1996.

• G.J. de Jong, An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Temporal Logic, CAV'91, LNCS Vol 575, Springer-Verlag, pp 477-487, 1991.

• Y. Choueka, Theories of Automata on omega-Tapes: A Simplified Approach, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Vol 8, pp 117-141, 1974.

Diagrams

• Kathi Fisler
• Diagrammatic reasoning.

Articles

• Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli. Temporal Verification Diagrams. In International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 789, Springer-Verlag, pp. 726-765, 1994.

Generalized Verification Diagrams

• Anca Browne, Zohar Manna and Henny Sipma. Generalized Temporal Verification Diagrams. In 15th Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 1026 of LNCS, pp. 484-498, Bangalore, India, December 1995.

• Anca Browne, Zohar Manna and Henny B. Sipma. Hierarchical Verification using Verification Diagrams. In Second Asian Computing Science Conf., LNCS vol. 1179, pp. 276-286, December 1996.

• Luca de Alfaro, Zohar Manna, Henny B. Sipma, and Tomás E. Uribe. Visual Verification of Reactive Systems. In Proc. of TACAS'97, vol. 1217 of LNCS, pp. 334-350, Springer Verlag, 1997.

• Zohar Manna, Anca Browne, Henny B. Sipma and Tomás E. Uribe. Visual Abstractions for Temporal Verification. In AMAST'98, vol. 1548 of LNCS, pp. 28-41, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

• Zohar Manna and Henny Sipma. Verification of Parameterized Systems by Dynamic Induction. To appear in CAV'99.

Falsification Diagrams

• Henny B. Sipma, Tomás E. Uribe and Zohar Manna. Deductive Model Checking. In 8th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, LNCS vol. 1102, pp. 209-219, Springer-Verlag, July 1996.

• Henny B. Sipma, Deductive Model Checking, Chapter 6 in Diagram-based Verification of Discrete, Real-time and Hybrid Systems, PhD thesis, Feb 1999.

Abstraction

Links

• Abstract Interpretation: Patrick Cousot.
• Use of abstract interpretation in the verification of reactive systems:
  • Nicholas Halbwachs
  • Hassen Saidi
  • Susanne Graf
  • Dennis Dams

Selected publications

• Tomás E. Uribe, Abstraction-based Deductive-Algorithmic Verification of Reactive Systems, PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, December 1998. Abstract.

• Michael A. Colón and Tomás E. Uribe. Generating Finite-State Abstractions of Reactive Systems Using Decision Procedures. In International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, CAV'98, pp. 293-304, vol. 1427 of LNCS, Springer-Verlag, June/July 1998. Abstract. Version inPDF (Acrobat).

• Nikolaj Bjørner, I. Anca Browne and Zohar Manna. Automatic Generation of Invariants and Intermediate Assertions. Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 173(1), pp. 49-87, February 1997. Original version appeared in 1st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 976, Cassis, France, pp. 589-623, September 1995.

Real-Time Systems

Links

• Rajeev Alur
• Tom Henzinger

• Yonit Kesten, Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli. Verifying Clocked Transition Systems. In Hybrid Systems III, LNCS vol. 1066, pp. 13-40, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

• R. Alur and D.L. Dill. A theory of timed automata. Theoretical Computer Science 126:183-235, 1994 (preliminary versions appeared in Proc. 17th ICALP, LNCS 443, 1990, and Real Time: Theory in Practice, LNCS 600, 1991). Abstract. Full paper.

• Nikolaj Bjorner, Zohar Manna, Henny Sipma and Tomás Uribe. Deductive Verification of Real-time Systems using STeP. To appear in Theoretical Computer Science.

Modularity

• B. Finkbeiner, Z. Manna, and H. Sipma, Deductive Verification of Modular Systems. In Compositionality: The Significant Difference, LNCS 1536, Springer-Verlag, 1998.