ADVANCED MODEL CHECKING

(CSE-952)

1. Educational Objectives: Having completed this course, students will be able to model
the behavior of reactive systems using finite-state machines and temporal logic. They will
understand and be able to use model checkers to check whether crucial properties are
satisfied

2. Course Outcomes: After the completion of this course, the students would be able to
model and verify the dynamics of complex dynamic systems, in any discipline including
biology, computer science, electronics and engineering.
3. Detailed Course Contents:
System Verification
Model Checking
Characteristics of Model Checking
The Model-Checking Process
Strengths and Weaknesses
Modeling Concurrent Systems
Transition Systems
Parallelism and Communication
The State-Space Explosion Problem
Linear-Time Properties
Deadlock
Linear-Time Behavior
Safety Properties and Invariants
Liveness Properties
Fairness
Regular Properties
Automata on Finite Words
Model-Checking Regular Safety Properties
Automata on Infinite Words
Model-Checking -Regular Properties
Linear Temporal Logic
Linear Temporal Logic
Automata-Based LTL Model Checking
Computation Tree Logic
Computation Tree Logic
Expressiveness of CTL vs. LTL
Fairness in CTL
Research Center for Modeling & Simulation (RCMS)
National University of Sciences & Technology

Counterexamples and Witnesses
Symbolic CTL Model Checking
Equivalences and Abstraction
Bisimulation
Bisimulation and CTLEquivalence
Bisimulation-Quotienting Algorithms
Simulation Relations
Partial Order Reduction
The Linear-Time Ample Set Approach
The Branching-Time Ample Set Approach
Independence of Actions
Timed Automata
Timed Automata
TCTL Model Checking
Probabilistic Systems
Markov Chains
Probabilistic Computation Tree Logic
Linear-Time Properties
Markov Chains with Costs
Markov Decision Processes
Model-checking tools
HyTech
UPPAAL
PRISM
4. Recommended Text/Reference Books:
E.-R. Olderog and H. Dierks: Real-Time Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
B. Brard et al.: Systems and Software Verification: Model-Checking Techniques and
Tools, Springer 2001.
C. Baier and J.-P. Katoen: Principles of Model Checking, MIT Press, 2008.
T-A. Henzinger, P-H. Ho, and H. Wong-Toi. HYTECH: A model checker for hybrid
systems. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 1(1-2):110-
122,1997.
GoranFrehse. Phaver: Algorithmic verification of hybrid systems past HYTECH. In
HSCC, pages 258-273, 2005
A Tutorial on UPPAAL .GerdBehrmann, Alexandre David, and Kim G. Larsen. In
proceedings of the 4th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of
Computer, Communication, and Software Systems (SFM-RT'04). LNCS number 3185,
Springer.