The Temporal Logic of Reactive and Concurrent Systems Specification [Paperback]

Reactive systems are computing systems which are interactive, such as real-time systems, operating systems, concurrent systems, control systems, etc. They are among the most difficult computing systems to program. Temporal logic is a formal tool/language which yields excellent results in specifying reactive systems. This volume, the first of two, subtitled Specification, has a self-contained introduction to temporal logic and, more important, an introduction to the computational model for reactive programs, developed by Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli of Stanford University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, respectively.Reactive systems are computing systems which are interactive, such as real-time systems, operating systems, concurrent systems, control systems, etc. They are among the most difficult computing systems to program. Temporal logic is a formal tool/language which yields excellent results in specifying reactive systems. This volume, the first of two, subtitled Specification, has a self-contained introduction to temporal logic and, more important, an introduction to the computational model for reactive programs, developed by Zohar Manna and Amir Pnueli of Stanford University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, respectively.I: Models of Concurrency.- 1: Basic Models.- 1.1 The Generic Model.- 1.2 Model 1: Transition Diagrams.- 1.3 Model 2: Shared-Variables Text.- 1.4 Semantics of Shared-Variables Text.- 1.5 Structural Relations Between Statements.- 1.6 Behavioral Equivalence.- 1.7 Grouped Statements.- 1.8 Semaphore Statements.- 1.9 Region Statements.- 1.10 Model 3: Message-Passing Text.- 1.11 Model 4: Petri Nets.- Problems.- Bibliographic Notes.- 2: Modeling Real Concurrency.- 2.1 Interleaving and Concurrency.- 2.2 Limiting the Critical References.- 2.3 Justice (Weak Fairness).- 2.4 Implications of the Justice Requirements.- 2.5 Compassion (Strong Fairness).- 2.6 Synchronization Statements.- 2.7 Communication Statements.- 2.8 Summary: Faló`