Model Checking (SS 2021)

Content

Model checking is a widely used technique for automatic verification and debugging for both software and hardware, with the power to revel subtle errors that remain undiscovered using testing. Therefore, model checking is an effective technique to expose potential design errors and improve software and hardware reliability, and  it is gaining wide industrial acceptance. Its inventors Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis have been awarded the significant Turing award in 2007. How does model checking work, that is, what are its underlying principles? This is the focus of this course! We will show that model checking is based on well-known paradigms from automata theory, graph algorithms, logic, and data structures. Since model checking is based on checking models, we first start by explaining what models are. Following, we introduce temporal logics (e.g., LTL and CTL) to formalize various classes of system properties such as safety, liveness and fairness, and discuss in detail model checking algorithms for these logics.

Material

The course is based on: Model Checking second edition by Edmund M. Clarke Jr., Orna Grumberg, Daniel Kröning, Doron Peled, Helmut Veith MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262038836 ISBN-10: 0262038838  

Schedule

Videos can be found here: https://seafile.iaik.tugraz.at/d/474b6fd4d1e34723ab77/. You can find the password on our discord server.  

DATE	TOPIC	Teams		Slides	Homework	Video
2021-03-04	Intro	link		mc01-intro2
2021-03-11	Chapter 3	link		mc03-modeling	homework_1	video
2021-03-18	Chapter 10	link		mc10-satbasedmc mc10-satbasedmc	MC-homework2	video
2021-03-25	Chapter 10	link		mc10-satbasedmc2	MC-homework3. Errata: Deadline 8 April. solutions assignment1 v1.1	video
2021-04-15	Chapter 10	link		mc10-satbasedmc3	MC-homework4 hw_4a_solutions hw4b_solutions	video
2021-04-22	Chapter 4	link		mc04_temporalLogic	MC-homework5 assignment2 - deadline extended to 04.06.	video
2021-04-29	Chapter 4	link		mc04_temporalLogic-part2	MC-homework_6 homework6_solutions	video
2021-05-06	Chapter 5	link		mc05_ctl-mc	MC-homework_7	video
2021-05-20	Chapter 7	link		Mc07_ltl_mc_part1	MC-homework_8	video
2021-05-27	Chapter 7	link		M07_ltl_mc_part2	MC-homework_9	video
2021-06-10	Chapter 7	link		Mc07_ltl_mc_part3	MC_homework_10	video
2021-06-17	Chapter 8	link		mc08-bdds	MC-homework11	video
2021-06-24	Chapter 12	link		mcFinal-synthesis	no homework	video

Administrative Information

Homework

There are two ways to get a grade for the exam: you do the homework or you take an exam. If you do the homework, you will get a grade for the course. To get a passing grade, you can skip at most two homeworks. Otherwise, there are 10 points per homework, 50% is a passing grade and the grades above that are divided evenly. If you don't want to do the homework or you get a failing grade for the homework, you can do a regular exam. Please let me know when you want the exam!     Lecture and exercises (both virtual)   IGNORE EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE!

Lecturers