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System Validation: Automata and behavioural equivalences
EIT Digital

System Validation: Automata and behavioural equivalences

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Jan Friso Groote

Instructor: Jan Friso Groote

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4 hours to complete
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There are 3 modules in this course

System Validation is the field that studies the fundamentals of system communication and information processing. 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 validaton 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.’Automata and behavioural equivalences' shows you how to look at system behaviour as state machines. It discusses behavioural equivalences and illustrate these in a number of examples and quizzes. This module introduces automata or labelled transition systems as the basic way to model the behaviour of software controlled systems. It subsequently addresses the question when such behaviours are equivalent. Reading material. J.F. Groote and M.R. Mousavi. Modeling and analysis of communicating systems. The MIT Press, 2014.

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5 videos1 reading1 quiz

This module shows the most important equivalences that express when the behaviour of two automata can be considered to be equivalent. It will become obvious that there are multiple of such notions, all fit for use under different circumstances. Furthermore, the all-important notion of the internal or hidden action is introduced with some associated behavioural equivalences.

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6 videos2 readings1 quiz

This module elaborates on the equivalences provided earlier. It is shown how it can be applied, especially to the alternating bit protocol. Furthermore, a number of additional equivalences are introduced.

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7 videos1 quiz

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Jan Friso Groote
EIT Digital
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