Formal Methods for Distributed System Development :
[Book]
FORTE
PSTV 2000 IFIP TC6 WG6.1 Joint International Conference on Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols (FORTE XIII) and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification (PSTV XX) October 10-13, 2000, Pisa, Italy / edited by Tommaso Bolognesi, Diego Latella.
Boston, MA
Springer US
2000
(xv, 408 pages)
IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing, 55.
1. Formal Verification of the TTP Group Membership Algorithm --;2. Verification of a Sliding Window Protocol Using IOA and MONA --;3. A Priori Verification of Reactive Systems --;4. From Rule-based to Automata-based Testing --;5. Integrated System Interoperability Testing with Applications to VOIP --;6. On Test Derivation from Partial Specifications --;7. Compositionality for Improving Model Checking --;8. A Model Checking Method for Partially Symmetric Systems --;9. Specification and Verification of Message Sequence Charts --;10. A State-Exploration Technique for Spi-Calculus Testing Equivalence Verification --;11. Verification of Consistency Protocols via Infinite-State Symbolic Model Checking --;12. Systematic Performance Evaluation of Multipoint Protocols --;13. Simulating Multicast Transport Protocols in Estelle --;14. Generation of Realistic Signalling Traffic in an ISDN Load Test System using SDL User Models --;15. Satisfaction up to Liveness --;16. Testing IP Routing Protocols --;From Probabilistic Algorithms to a Software Tool --;17. Verifying and Testing Asynchronous Circuits using LOTOS --;18. Hardware implementation of Concurrent Periodic EFSM's --;19. Modeling Distributed Embedded Systems in Multiclock ESTEREL --;20. Compact Net Semantics for Process Algebras --;21. A Concise Compositional Statecharts Semantics Definition --;22 Implementing CCS in Maude --;23. From Refutation to Verification --;24. Process Algebraic Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols --;25. A Logic of Belief and a Model Checking Algorithm for Security Protocols.
Second, one of the several myths about FM's - the fact that their adoption would eventually eliminate the need for testing - is still quite far from becoming a reality, and, again, this book indicates that testing theory and applications are still remarkably healthy.
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PSTV 2000 IFIP TC6 WG6.1 Joint International Conference on Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols (FORTE XIII) and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification (PSTV XX) October 10-13, 2000, Pisa, Italy