Title
Model checking: recent improvements and applications.
Abstract
Model checking (Baier and Katoen in Principles of model checking, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008; Clarke et al. in Model checking, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2001) is an automatic technique to formally verify that a given specification of a concurrent system meets given functional properties. Its use has been demonstrated many times over the years. Key characteristics that make the method so appealing are its level of automaticity, its ability to determine the absence of errors in the system (contrary to testing techniques) and the fact that it produces counter-examples when errors are detected, that clearly demonstrate not only that an error is present, but also how the error can be produced. The main drawback of model checking is its limited scalability, and for this reason, research on reducing the computational effort has received much attention over the last decades. Besides the verification of qualitative functional properties, the model checking technique can also be applied for other types of analyses, such as planning and the verification of quantitative properties. We briefly discuss several contributions in the model checking field that address both its scalability and its applicability to perform planning and quantitative analysis. In particular, we introduce six papers selected from the 23rd International SPIN Symposium on Model Checking Software (SPIN 2016).
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s10009-018-0501-x
STTT
Keywords
Field
DocType
Model checking,Partial-order reduction,Planning,Probabilistic model checking,Strategy synthesis
Drawback,Model checking,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Software,Automaticity,Partial order reduction,Probabilistic model checking,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
5
1433-2779
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
27
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dragan Bosnacki127626.95
Anton Wijs220322.84