Handbook of Model Checking

Introduction to Model Checking.- Temporal Logic and Fair Discrete Systems.- Modeling for Verification.- Automata Theory and Model Checking.- Explicit-State Model Checking.- Partial-Order Reduction.- Binary Decision Diagrams.- BDD-Based Symbolic Model Checking.- Propositional SAT Solving.- SAT-Based Model Checking.- Satisfiability Modulo Theories.- Compositional Reasoning.- Abstraction and Abstraction Refinement.- Interpolation and Model Checking.- Predicate Abstraction for Program Verification.- Combining Model Checking and Data-Flow Analysis.- Model Checking Procedural Programs.- Model Checking Concurrent Programs.- Combining Model Checking and Testing.- Combining Model Checking and Deduction.- Model Checking Parameterized Systems.- Model Checking Security Protocols.- Transfer of Model Checking to Industrial Practice.- Functional Specification of Hardware via Temporal Logic.- Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation.- The mu-calculus and Model Checking.- Graph Games and Reactive Synthesis.-Model Checking Probabilistic Systems.- Model Checking Real-Time Systems.- Verification of Hybrid Systems.- Symbolic Model Checking in Non-Boolean Domains.- Process Algebra and Model Checking.

Prof. Edmund M. Clarke is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1976. With E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis he received an ACM Turing Award in 2007 for his work on the development of model checking. He was among the cofounders of the Computer Aided Verification (CAV) conference, and is a former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Formal Methods in Systems Design. His research interests include software and hardware verification and automatic theorem proving.

Prof. Thomas A. Henzinger is the President of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (I.S.T. Austria). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University; the thesis was nominated for the ACM Best Dissertation Award in 1992. He won the Wittgenstein Award of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and he is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), and the Academia Europaea. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He won a LICS Test-of-Time Award, he is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and he has won highest-impact, most influential, or best paper awards at events such as SIGSOFT, POPL, FSE and CONCUR. He won an ONR Young Investigator Award, an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award, and he was a Fulbright Fellow. His research interests include mathematical logic, automata and game theory, and models of computation; analysis of reactive, stochastic, real-time, and hybrid systems; formal software and hardware verification, especially model checking; design and implementation of concurrent and embedded software; and executable modeling of biological systems.

Prof. Dr. Helmut Veith is a professor in the Faculty of Informatics of Technische Universität Wien, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD (sub auspiciis praesidentis) in Computer Science from TU Wien. He previously held professor