An analyzer for extended compositional process algebras
Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Bounded Model Checking of Compositional Processes
TASE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 2nd IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering
Specifying and Verifying Event-Based Fairness Enhanced Systems
ICFEM '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Formal Methods and Software Engineering
PAT: Towards Flexible Verification under Fairness
CAV '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Integrating Specification and Programs for System Modeling and Verification
TASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Third IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering
Fair Model Checking with Process Counter Abstraction
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
Model Checking Linearizability via Refinement
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
Scalable Multi-core Model Checking Fairness Enhanced Systems
ICFEM '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods: Formal Methods and Software Engineering
Developing model checkers using PAT
ATVA'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Automated technology for verification and analysis
Demo: Towards bug-free implementation for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
PRTS: an approach for model checking probabilistic real-time hierarchical systems
ICFEM'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Formal methods and software engineering
PAT 3: An Extensible Architecture for Building Multi-domain Model Checkers
ISSRE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
A model checking framework for hierarchical systems
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
More anti-chain based refinement checking
ICFEM'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Formal Engineering Methods: formal methods and software engineering
Symbolic model-checking of stateful timed CSP using BDD and digitization
ICFEM'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Formal Engineering Methods: formal methods and software engineering
Modeling and verifying hierarchical real-time systems using stateful timed CSP
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Model checking has established as an effective method for automatic system analysis and verification. It is making its way into many domains and methodologies. Applying model checking techniques to a new domain (which probably has its own dedicated modeling language) is, however, far from trivial. Translation-based approach works by translating domain specific languages into input languages of a model checker. Because the model checker is not designed for the domain (or equivalently, the language), translation-based approach is often ad hoc. Ideally, it is desirable to have an optimized model checker for each application domain. Implementing one with reasonable efficiency, however, requires years of dedicated efforts. In this tutorial, we will briefly survey a variety of model checking techniques. Then we will show how to develop a model checker for a language combining real-time and probabilistic features using the PAT (Process Analysis Toolkit) step-by-step, and show that it could take as short as a few weeks to develop your own model checker with reasonable efficiency. The PAT system is designed to facilitate development of customized model checkers. It has an extensible and modularized architecture to support new languages (and their operational semantics), new state reduction or abstraction techniques, new model checking algorithms, etc. Since its introduction 5 years ago, PAT has attracted more than 2500 registered users (from 500+ organisations in 60 countries) and has been applied to develop model checkers for 20 different languages.