Course details

Embedded System Specification

SVSe Acad. year 2011/2012 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Embedded distributed system design principles. Reactive systems and real-time systems. Reactive system and real-time system models. Fairness, livness, safety, feasibility; real-time livness. Temporal logic fundamentals. Time models and temporal logics. Temporal logic and real time. Formal specifications of embedded systems. Hybrid systems. Provers. Model checking. Real-time systems verification.

Guarantor

Language of instruction

English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures
  • 6 hrs exercises
  • 7 hrs projects

Department

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Understanding behavioral formal specifications as applied to embedded systems design; being aware of utilizing temporal logics for modeling reactive systems and real-time systems; being informed about embedded distributed system architectures.

Being acknowledged with basics of temporal logic.

Learning objectives

Understand formal specification principles as applied to embedded systems design; be aware of utilizing temporal logics for modeling reactive systems and real-time systems; be aware of embedded distributed system architectures.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Propositional logic. Basics of the first-order logic. The elementary notions of communication protocols.

Study literature

  • Huth, M.R.A., Ryan, M.D.: Logic in Computer Science - Modelling and Reasoning about Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-65602-8
  • Clarke, E.M., Jr., Grumberg, O., Peled, D.A.: Model Checking, MIT Press, 2000, ISBN 0-262-03270-8
  • de Bakker, J.W. et all. (Editors): Real-Time: Theory in Practice, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 600, 1992, ISBN 3-540-55564-1

Fundamental literature

  • Schneider, K.: Verification of Reactive Systems, Springer-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-540-00296-0
  • Huth, M.R.A., Ryan, M.D.: Logic in Computer Science - Modelling and Reasoning about Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-65602-8
  • Clarke, E.M., Jr., Grumberg, O., Peled, D.A.: Model Checking, MIT Press, 2000, ISBN 0-262-03270-8
  • de Bakker, J.W. et all. (Editors): Real-Time: Theory in Practice, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 600, 1992, ISBN 3-540-55564-1
  • Gabbay, D.M., Ohlbach, H.J. (Editors): Temporal Logic, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 827, 1994, ISBN 3-540-58241-X
  • Monin, J.F., Hinchey, M.G.:Understanding Formal Methods, Springer-Verlang, 2003.
  • Peled, D.A.:Software Reliability Methods, Text in Computer Science, Springer, 2001.
  • Tennent, R.D.:Specifying Software: A Hand-On Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Bertot, Y., Casteran, P.:Interactive Theorem Proving and Program Development, Springer-Verlang, 2004.

Syllabus of lectures

  • Embedded distributed system design principles
  • Reactive system and real-time system models
  • Fairness, livness, safety, feasibility; real-time livness
  • Temporal logic fundamentals
  • Time models and temporal logics
  • Temporal logic and real time
  • Formal specifications of embedded systems
  • Provers
  • Model checking
  • Real-time systems verification
  • Formal specification of abstract data types and objects, algebraic specifications
  • Using type theoretic systems for formal specification and verification of programs

Syllabus of numerical exercises

  • Introductory to system Coq. Brief exploration of formalism of the system, description of mathematical vernacular - the language used for communicating with the system, demonstration of the system for specifying and verifying properties of a simple algorithm.

Progress assessment

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Requirements for class accreditation are not defined.

Controlled instruction

Mid-term exam, laboratory practice supported by project work, and final exam are the monitored, and points earning, education. Mid-term exam and laboratory practice are without correction eventuality. Final exam has two additional correction eventualities. 

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