Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs (3^rd Ed., 3rd ed. 2009) Texts in Computer Science Series

HIS BOOK CONTAINS a most comprehensive text that presents syntax-directed and compositional methods for the formal veri?- T cation of programs. The approach is not language-bounded in the sense that it covers a large variety of programming models and features that appear in most modern programming languages. It covers the classes of - quential and parallel, deterministic and non-deterministic, distributed and object-oriented programs. For each of the classes it presents the various c- teria of correctness that are relevant for these classes, such as interference freedom, deadlock freedom, and appropriate notions of liveness for parallel programs. Also, special proof rules appropriate for each class of programs are presented. In spite of this diversity due to the rich program classes cons- ered, there exist a uniform underlying theory of veri?cation which is synt- oriented and promotes compositional approaches to veri?cation, leading to scalability of the methods. The text strikes the proper balance between mathematical rigor and - dactic introduction of increasingly complex rules in an incremental manner, adequately supported by state-of-the-art examples. As a result it can serve as a textbook for a variety of courses on di?erent levels and varying durations. It can also serve as a reference book for researchers in the theory of veri?- tion, in particular since it contains much material that never before appeared in book form. This is specially true for the treatment of object-oriented p- grams which is entirely novel and is strikingly elegant.

In the Beginning.- Preliminaries.- Deterministic Programs.- While Programs.- Recursive Programs.- Recursive Programs with Parameters.- Object-Oriented Programs.- Parallel Programs.- Disjoint Parallel Programs.- Parallel Programs with Shared Variables.- Parallel Programs with Synchronization.- Nondeterministic and Distributed Programs.- Nondeterministic Programs.- Distributed Programs.- Fairness.

Deals with the verification of programs allowing dynamic process creation Includes four new chapters on increasingly important aspects of programming Contains many learning tools to aid the reader such as case studies, exercises, comprehensive references/further reading and helpful appendices