Designing Reliable Distributed Systems: A Formal Methods Approach Based on Executable Modeling in Maude

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the design, formal modeling, and analysis of distributed computer systems. It uses Maude, a rewriting logic-based language and simulation and model checking tool, to offer a simple and intuitive modeling formalism suitable for object-oriented and functional programming styles. It covers classical algebraic specification and term rewriting theory, object-oriented modeling, temporal logic, examples, and case studies from different domains. It also includes exercises and executable code.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 313 pages
\n Publication date: 22 February 2018
\n Publisher: Springer London Ltd
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This comprehensive textbook offers an accessible introduction to the design, formal modeling, and analysis of distributed computer systems. It employs Maude, a rewriting logic-based language and simulation and model checking tool, which provides a simple and intuitive modeling formalism suitable for modeling distributed systems in an attractive object-oriented and functional programming style.

Topics and features:

The textbook introduces classical algebraic specification and term rewriting theory, including reasoning about termination, confluence, and equational properties. It also covers object-oriented modeling of distributed systems using rewriting logic, as well as temporal logic to specify requirements that a system should satisfy.

The book provides a range of examples and case studies from different domains to help the reader 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.

The textbook 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.

\n Weight: 564g\n
Dimension: 159 x 238 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781447166863\n
Edition number: 1st ed. 2017\n