Logics for Concurrency: Structure versus Automata

Faron Moller, Graham Birtwistle (eds.)3540609156, 9783540609155

This book presents five tutorial-style lectures on various approaches to the problem of verifying distributed systems: three chapters concentrate on linear-time or branching-time temporal logics; one addresses process equivalence with an emphasis on infinite-state systems; and the final one presents a novel category-theoretic approach to verification. The various formalisms for expressing properties of concurrent systems, based on automata-theoretic techniques or structural properties, are studied in detail.
Much attention is paid to the style of writing and complementary coverage of the relevant issues. Thus these lecture notes are ideally suited for advanced courses on logics for concurrent systems. Equally, they are indispensable reading for anyone researching the area of distributed computing.

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Table of contents :
Introduction….Pages 1-4
Specification Structures and propositions-as-types for concurrency….Pages 5-40
Automated temporal reasoning about reactive systems….Pages 41-101
Decidability results in automata and process theory….Pages 102-148
Modal and temporal logics for processes….Pages 149-237
An automata-theoretic approach to linear temporal logic….Pages 238-266