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This classroom-tested textbook provides an accessible introduction to the design, formal modeling, and analysis of distributed computer systems. The book uses Maude, a rewriting logic-based language and simulation and model checking tool, which offers a simple and intuitive modeling formalism that is suitable for modeling distributed systems in an attractive object-oriented and functional programming style.
Topics and features: introduces classical algebraic specification and term rewriting theory, including reasoning about termination, confluence, and equational properties; covers object-oriented modeling of distributed systems using rewriting logic, as well as temporal logic to specify requirements that a system should satisfy; provides a range of examples and case studies from different domains, to help the reader to develop an intuitive understanding of distributed systems and their design challenges; examples include classic distributed systems such as transport protocols, cryptographic protocols, and distributed transactions, leader election, and mutual execution algorithms; contains a wealth of exercises, including larger exercises suitable for course projects, and supplies executable code and supplementary material at an associated website.
This self-contained textbook is designed to support undergraduate courses on formal methods and distributed systems, and will prove invaluable to any student seeking a reader-friendly introduction to formal specification, logics and inference systems, and automated model checking techniques.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I: Equational Specifications and Their Analysis.- Equational Specification in Maude.- Operational Semantics of Equational Specifications.- Termination.- Confluence.- Equational Logic.- Models of Equational Specifications.- Part II: Specification and Analysis of Distributed Systems in Maude.- Modeling Distributed Systems in Rewriting Logic.- Executing Rewriting Logic Specifications in Maude.- Concurrent Objects in Maude.- Modeling Communication in Maude.- Modeling and Analyzing Transport Protocols.- Distributed Algorithms.- Analyzing a Cryptographic Protocol.- System Requirements.- Formalizing and Checking Requirements.- Real-Time and Probabilistic Systems.- Appendix A: Mathematical Preliminaries.
About the author
Dr. Peter Csaba Ölveczky is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Summary
This classroom-tested textbook provides an accessible introduction to the design, formal modeling, and analysis of distributed computer systems.
