Model Checking

Prof. Dr. Christel Baier and Dr. Sascha Klüppelholz
SWS: (4/4/0), in English

Description

Model Checking is a fully automatic verification method for reactive systems. This course provides an introduction to the main principles of model checking:

• modeling reactive systems by transition systems
• linear time properties and Büchi automata
• linear temporal logic and automata-based model checking
• computation tree logic

and selected topics of:

• bisimulation and simulation relations
• probabilistic and timed automata
• partial order reduction, symbolic model checking

Literature

The course follows the book “Principles of Model Checking” (C. Baier, J.P. Katoen, Principles of Model Checking, MIT Press) closely. This book is available at the SLUB (Lehrbuchsammlung).

Registration

Enrolling via OPAL is required until October 16th 2023.

Dates

There is no fixed assignment of the lectures and exercises to time slots. The schedule for the lectures and tutorials will be announced every week. The first lecture will start October 12th 2023, 09:20 am.

The course consists of a (4/2/0) lecture with exercises for the theoretical foundations (October – December) and an introduction to model checkers with practical exercises (0/2/0) (January).

Prerequisites

For the course, basic knowledge on algorithms, complexity theory, automata theory and logic is presumed.

Exam and Creditability

Bachelor Informatik

• INF-B-510: Vertiefung in der Informatik (30 minute oral exam)
• INF-B-520: Spezialisierung in der Informatik (30 minute oral exam)

Master Informatik

• INF-BAS6: Basismodul Theoretische Informatik (exam according to module description)
• INF-VERT6: Vertiefungsmodul Theoretische Informatik (exam according to module description)

Diplom Informatik

• INF-BAS6: Basismodul Theoretische Informatik (exam according to module description)
• INF-VERT6: Vertiefungsmodul Theoretische Informatik (exam according to module description)

Master Computational Logic

• MCL-TCSL: Theoretical Computer Science and Logic (exam according to module description)

Master Computational Modeling and Simulation

• CMS-LM-MOC: Models of Computation (30 minute oral exam)
• CMS-LM-ADV: Advanced Logical Modeling (30 minute oral exam)

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