The Spin Model Checker

Author : Mordechai Ben-Ari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846287707
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of the Spin Model Checker written by Mordechai Ben-Ari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first introductory textbook on Spin, the only requirement is a background in programming. Spin models are written in the Promela language which is easily learned by students and programmers. Spin is easy to install and use. The Spin model checker is not only a widely used professional tool but it is also a superb tool for teaching important concepts of computer science such as verification, concurrency and nondeterminism. The book introduces Spin-based software that the author has developed for teaching. Complete programs demonstrate each construct and concept and these programs are available on a companion website.

Author : Gerard J. Holzmann
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780321773715
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spin Model Checker written by Gerard J. Holzmann and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SPIN Model Checker is used for both teaching software verification techniques, and for validating large scale applications. The growing number of users has created a need for a more comprehensive user guide and a standard reference manual that describes the most recent version of the tool. This book fills that need. SPIN is used in over 40 countries. The offical SPIN web site, spinroot.com receives between 2500 and 3000 hits per day. It has been estimated that up to three-quarters of the $400 billion spent annually to hire programmers in the United States is ultimately spent on debugging

Author : Neil Rackham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000111482
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SPIN® -Selling written by Neil Rackham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True or false? In selling high-value products or services: 'closing' increases your chance of success; it is essential to describe the benefits of your product or service to the customer; objection handling is an important skill; open questions are more effective than closed questions. All false, says this provocative book. Neil Rackham and his team studied more than 35,000 sales calls made by 10,000 sales people in 23 countries over 12 years. Their findings revealed that many of the methods developed for selling low-value goods just don‘t work for major sales. Rackham went on to introduce his SPIN-Selling method. SPIN describes the whole selling process: Situation questions Problem questions Implication questions Need-payoff questions SPIN-Selling provides you with a set of simple and practical techniques which have been tried in many of today‘s leading companies with dramatic improvements to their sales performance.

Author : Christel Baier
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262304031
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Model Checking written by Christel Baier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the foundations of model checking, a fully automated technique for finding flaws in hardware and software; with extensive examples and both practical and theoretical exercises. Our growing dependence on increasingly complex computer and software systems necessitates the development of formalisms, techniques, and tools for assessing functional properties of these systems. One such technique that has emerged in the last twenty years is model checking, which systematically (and automatically) checks whether a model of a given system satisfies a desired property such as deadlock freedom, invariants, and request-response properties. This automated technique for verification and debugging has developed into a mature and widely used approach with many applications. Principles of Model Checking offers a comprehensive introduction to model checking that is not only a text suitable for classroom use but also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the field. The book begins with the basic principles for modeling concurrent and communicating systems, introduces different classes of properties (including safety and liveness), presents the notion of fairness, and provides automata-based algorithms for these properties. It introduces the temporal logics LTL and CTL, compares them, and covers algorithms for verifying these logics, discussing real-time systems as well as systems subject to random phenomena. Separate chapters treat such efficiency-improving techniques as abstraction and symbolic manipulation. The book includes an extensive set of examples (most of which run through several chapters) and a complete set of basic results accompanied by detailed proofs. Each chapter concludes with a summary, bibliographic notes, and an extensive list of exercises of both practical and theoretical nature.

Author : Gini Dietrich
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 078974886X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spin Sucks written by Gini Dietrich and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond PR spin! Master better ways to communicate honestly and regain the trust of your customers and stakeholders with this book.

Author : Gerard J. Holzmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design and Validation of Computer Protocols written by Gerard J. Holzmann and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the fundamental problems of designing logically consistent methods of communication between multiple computer processes. Standard protocol design problems, such as error control and flow control, are covered in detail, but also structured design methods and the construction of formal validation models. The book contains complete listings and explanations of new protocol validation and design tool called SPIN. Author is in charge of protocol design at Bell Labs. Professionals who bought Tanenbaum's COMPUTER NETWORKS, 2/E and Comer's TCP/IP will buy this. This is the first book to cover automated protocol design and validation tools extensively.

Author : Dennis Dams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540482342
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical and Practical Aspects of SPIN Model Checking written by Dennis Dams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing the designer’s con dence that a piece of software or hardwareis c- pliant with its speci cation has become a key objective in the design process for software and hardware systems. Many approaches to reaching this goal have been developed, including rigorous speci cation, formal veri cation, automated validation, and testing. Finite-state model checking, as it is supported by the explicit-state model checkerSPIN,is enjoying a constantly increasingpopularity in automated property validation of concurrent, message based systems. SPIN has been in large parts implemented and is being maintained by Gerard Ho- mann, and is freely available via ftp fromnetlib.bell-labs.comor from URL http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/spin/Man/README.html. The beauty of nite-state model checking lies in the possibility of building \push-button" validation tools. When the state space is nite, the state-space traversal will eventually terminate with a de nite verdict on the property that is being validated. Equally helpful is the fact that in case the property is inv- idated the model checker will return a counterexample, a feature that greatly facilitates fault identi cation. On the downside, the time it takes to obtain a verdict may be very long if the state space is large and the type of properties that can be validated is restricted to a logic of rather limited expressiveness.

Author : Alastair Donaldson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783642317583
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model Checking Software written by Alastair Donaldson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 19th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2012, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2012. The 11 revised full papers presented together with 5 tool papers and 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on model checking techniques; parallel model checking; case studies; model checking for concurrency; and tool demonstrations.

Author : Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429915439
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spin written by Robert Charles Wilson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Axis and Vortex, the first Hugo Award-winning novel in the environmental apocalyptic Spin Trilogy... One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk--a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside--more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future. Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses. Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans...and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun--and report back on what they find. Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Klaus Havelund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540851135
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model Checking Software written by Klaus Havelund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International SPIN workshop on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2008, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2008. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 1 tool paper and 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The main focus of the workshop series is software systems, including models and programs. The papers cover theoretical and algorithmic foundations as well as tools for software model checking and foster interactions and exchanges of ideas with related areas in software engineering, such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, and testing.