MAT-74506 Model Checking and Petri Nets, 7 cr

Additional information

The course is given every second year. The local homepage of the course is https://www.cs.tut.fi/~ava/modelPetri.html
Suitable for postgraduate studies.

Person responsible

Antti Valmari

Lessons

Implementation Period Person responsible Requirements
MAT-74506 2016-01 1 - 2 Antti Valmari
If the number of students is small, the course is passed by solving many enough weekly exercise problems. Otherwise there will be an examination.

Learning Outcomes

The student can read scientific literature on model checking and on Petri nets. (S)he can model concurrent systems and knows the basic correctness properties and verification methods.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Petri nets. Reachability graph. Coloured Petri nets and their unfolding.     
2. Boundedness. Invariants. Coverability set.  Symmetry method.  Structure theory of Petri nets. 
3. State-based concurrent systems and their state spaces. Deadlock, livelock and reachability.     
4. Linear temporal logic. Model checking with Büchi automata. Computation tree logic and its main verification algorithm.  Computational complexity of model checking.   
5. Binary decision diagrams.  Bounded model checking.   

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Additional information Examination material
Lecture slides     Antti Valmari         Yes   
Other literature   Scientific papers in the field         Will be delivered to the students.   No   

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
MAT-02650 Algoritmimatematiikka Mandatory    
MAT-71000 Tieto ja laskenta Advisable    
TIE-02200 Ohjelmoinnin peruskurssi Mandatory    

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Updated by: Ikonen Suvi-Päivikki, 13.04.2016