Formal Methods for Distributed System Development: 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 Ve

by Tommaso Bolognesi (Editor), Diego Latella (Editor)

Overview

th The 20 anniversary of the IFIP WG6. 1 Joint International Conference on Fonna! Methods for Distributed Systems and Communication Prools (FORTE XIII / PSTV XX) was celebrated by the year 2000 edition of the Conference, which was held for the first time in Italy, at Pisa, October 10-13, 2000. In devising the subtitle for this special edition —'Fonna! Methods­ Implementation Under Test' —we wanted to convey two main concepts that, in our opinion, are reflected in the contents of this book. First, the early, pioneering phases in the development of Formal Methods (FM's), with their conflicts between evangelistic and agnostic attitudes, with their over­ optimistic applications to toy examples and over-skeptical views about scalability to industrial cases, with their misconceptions and myths . . . , all this is essentially over. Many FM's have successfully reached their maturity, having been 'implemented' into concrete development practice: a number of papers in this book report about successful experiences in specifYing and verifYing real distributed systems and prools. 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. A total of 63 papers have been submitted to FORTEIPSTV 2000, out of which the Programme Committee has selected 22 for presentation at the Conference and inclusion in the Proceedings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475752649
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	02/28/2013
Series:	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology , #55
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1. Formal Verification of the TTP Group Membership Algorithm.- 2. Verification of a Sliding Window Prool 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 Prools via Infinite-State Symbolic Model Checking.- 12. Systematic Performance Evaluation of Multipoint Prools.- 13. Simulating Multicast Transport Prools 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 Prools — 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 Prools.- 25. A Logic of Belief and a Model Checking Algorithm for Security Prools.

Editorial Reviews

Papers from an October 2000 conference address the applicability of formal methods (FMs) to the specification, verification, implementation, and testing of complex distributed systems and communication protocols. Looks into areas including model checking theory and applications, verification and theorem proving, testing theory and applications, multicast protocol analysis and simulation, hardware specification and testing, and FMs for security. Specific topics include verification of consistency protocols via infinite- state symbolic model checking, and compact net semantics for process algebras. The editors are affiliated with the Italian National Research Council. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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