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Concurrent Systems II - Bad Request - Trinity College Dublin

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Model Checking<br />

• Model checking tools automatically verify whether a property holds in a given<br />

(finite-state) model of a system.<br />

• Safety Properties<br />

◾ “Something bad never happens.”<br />

• SPIN tries to find a path to the bad thing; if not found, the property is satisfied.<br />

• Liveness Properties<br />

◾ “Something good always happens eventually.”<br />

• SPIN tries to find an infinite loop in which the good thing doesn’t happen; if not<br />

found, the property is satisfied.<br />

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<strong>Trinity</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Dublin</strong><br />

© Mike Brady 2007–2009

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