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A synthesis of two approaches for verifying finite state concurrent systems. (English) Zbl 0688.68019
Logic at Botik, Proc. Symposium on logical foundations of computer science, Pereslavl-Zalessky/USSR 1989, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 363, 81-90 (1989).
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0669.00003.]
The two approaches to prove correctness are based upon temporal logic and on certain automata.
The computation tree logics $$CTL^*$$, which combines both branching time and linear time operators, is extended to ECTL; and the CTL model checker of CMU is compared to the COSPAN system of Bell Labs.
Bucchi-, Muller-, L-, and $$\forall$$-automaton are explicitely considered as well as Kripke structures. Fairness is a special topic.
There is a full paper to this journal version.
Reviewer: H.Fuss

##### MSC:
 68N25 Theory of operating systems 68-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to computer science 68Q45 Formal languages and automata