About this course: System Validation is the field that studies the fundamentals of system communication and information processing. It is the next logical step in computer science and improving software development in general. It allows automated analysis based on behavioural models of a system to see if a system works correctly. We want to guarantee that the systems does exactly what it is supposed to do. The techniques put forward in system validation allow to prove the absence of errors. It allows to design embedded system behaviour that is structurally sound and as a side effect enforces you to make the behaviour simple and insightful. This means that the systems are not only behaving correctly, but are also much easier to maintain and adapt. ’Model process behaviour' is the follow up MOOC to 'Automata and behavioural equivalences'. This MOOC shows you how to model process behaviour, in particular protocols and distributed algorithms, dive deeper in the properties of system behaviour, and keep things simple to avoid a state space explosion. Reading material. J.F. Groote and M.R. Mousavi. Modeling and analysis of communicating systems. The MIT Press, 2014. This course is part 2 of the set of courses for System Validation. System Validation, as a set of courses, is part of a larger EIT Digital online programme called 'Internet of Things through Embedded Systems'.
Who is this class for: This course is meant for first year Master students in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Note that as a consequence, quiz questions are more like exam questions where you have to construct the answer based on the principles that are taught in the web lectures, rather than to recall the literal text of the teacher.
Taught by: Jan Friso Groote, Full professor
Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
| Level | Intermediate |
| Commitment | sssssss |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
- Video: Introduction MOOC model process behaviour
- Video: Actions, multi-actions, alternative and sequential composition
- Video: Process axioms
- Video: Recursive process specifications
- Video: Processes and actions with data; the conditional operator
- Video: The sum operator
- Video: The alarm clock revisited
- Video: The construction of data types
- Video: Specification of Peano numbers
- Video: Specification of efficient numbers
- Video: Specification of lists
- Video: Functions, sets and bags
- Video: Structured types
- Video: Quantifiers
- Video: Knuth's dancing links
- Video: The parallel, communication and allow operators
- Video: The hiding operator
- Video: Peterson's mutual exclusion algorithm
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