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Discussion Slots Assigned

Written on 30.04.24 by Swen Jacobs

Dear students,

the discussion slots have now been assigned, you should be able to see them. Tutorials start this Friday.

Due to some difficulties with the CMS, we are not perfectly sure that everybody has been assigned a slot that fits their preferences. If your current slot does not work at all… Read more

Dear students,

the discussion slots have now been assigned, you should be able to see them. Tutorials start this Friday.

Due to some difficulties with the CMS, we are not perfectly sure that everybody has been assigned a slot that fits their preferences. If your current slot does not work at all for you, please let us know and we will try to solve the problem.

In case you have received an email before with a different assignment than is now visible: the current assignment counts.

First Exercise Sheet

Written on 29.04.24 by Swen Jacobs

Dear students,

the first exercise sheet is now available under Materials. Please hand in solutions before the first discussion slots, i.e., until Thursday evening.

Discussion Slots

Written on 26.04.24 by Swen Jacobs

Dear students,

as announced in the lecture today, please choose the suitable times for a discussion slot, and let us know who is in your group (under Submissions->Discussion Slot Groups) until Monday evening. It is enough if one person per group does this. If the available times don't work for you,… Read more

Dear students,

as announced in the lecture today, please choose the suitable times for a discussion slot, and let us know who is in your group (under Submissions->Discussion Slot Groups) until Monday evening. It is enough if one person per group does this. If the available times don't work for you, please let us know.

We will let you know on Tuesday which slot has been assigned to you.

First Lecture: Room change

Written on 18.04.24 by Swen Jacobs

Dear students, please note that our first lecture (tomorrow at 10:15) will take place in the CISPA lecture hall (C0, room 0.05), and not in our usual room 0.02.

Advanced Lecture (Vertiefungsvorlesung), Summer Term 2024, 6 CP

 

Lecture Room: CISPA: room 0.02
Lectures: Fridays 10-12
Tutorials: individual discussion slots
Exams: oral exams, August 01/02 (tentative)
   

Topic

We consider the problem of providing correctness and security guarantees for systems that scale with some parameter, e.g., the number of nodes in a network, the number of concurrent processes in a multi-threaded program, or the size of a data structure that a program operates on. Most systems are expected to scale in one or several parameters, but correctness and security guarantees are usually only given for fixed parameter values. In contrast, parameterized verification is the problem of obtaining correctness guarantees for all parameter values. In this course, we will look at methods for parameterized verification and investigate their capabilities and limitations.

The course is aimed at students interested in the theoretical concepts behind parameterized verification, which generalize system models, specification formalisms and proof methods from standard verification approaches. The course picks up on some of the topics of the core lecture "Verification", which is highly recommended, but not a prerequisite for this course.

References

The course will be loosely based on the following textbook, supplemented by recent research results in the area:

Decidability of Parameterized Verification
Roderick Bloem, Swen Jacobs, Ayrat Khalimov, Igor Konnov, Sasha Rubin, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder
Springer, Synthesis Lectures on Distributed Computing Theory (2015)

(hardcopies should be available in the library, a PDF is available through CMS)

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